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Talking Headways Podcast: More Highways, More Driving
This week, we're talking about the disconnect between techno-optimists and urbanists in climate change approach (whoa!).
June 3, 2021
OPINION: Raise the Gas Tax? Yes, but Fix Transportation Spending First
We can’t keep pumping new money into a broken system and expect a different result.
June 1, 2021
Not a Coincidence: Maryland Couple Dies on Same Dangerous Road Five Years Apart
The death raises questions about why even Vision Zero cities so often fail to adequately redesign streets that repeatedly prove fatal to walkers.
May 12, 2021
The Trouble with Today’s Automatic Emergency Braking Systems
Nearly 100 new cars and SUVs released in the United States this year will come equipped with automatic emergency braking systems that proponents will protect pedestrians on our streets — but some advocates wants the government set to stronger standards to ensure they actually work in all road contexts.
May 11, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Fighting Over Crumbs
May 5, 2021
An Ode to the Miniature Fire Truck
Stories about miniature emergency service vehicles are spreading like wildfire on Twitter — so let's rethink our obsession with monster trucks.
May 4, 2021
Why Mobility as a Service Needs a Proper Platform
The public clearly has an appetite for mobility as a service. People want to plan, book and pay for various forms of transport via a digital platform. But mobility service providers are actors in search of a stage.
May 4, 2021
COVID-19 Could End Our Dependence on Cars — If We ‘Build Back Better’
Achieving an outcome that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, while ensuring the development of safe and healthy cities, will require policy-makers and activists to act decisively. Our research on a general theory of car dependence suggests a few ways that they can do this.
April 27, 2021
Will the EV Revolution Kill the Parking Reform Movement?
As President Biden pushes to install electric vehicle chargers across America, some advocates are wondering where they will all go – and if the effort will deal a blow to the movement reform parking policy in our cities.
April 26, 2021
GOP Infrastructure Bill Goes All-In On Cars
Senate Republicans celebrated Earth Day by releasing a counter-offer to President Biden’s infrastructure plan that would only deepen America’s dependence on gas-powered cars.
April 22, 2021
