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Vision Zero Cities 2023

Living Without Refuge: How the Housing Crisis Fuels Traffic Violence

By design, the Vision Zero movement is data-driven, but traffic crash reports often do not report the housing status of victims.

October 24, 2023

Mobility Safety from a Feminist Perspective

Gendered mobility patterns, as well as stereotyped road behaviors that reproduce hegemonic male roles associated with exposure to risk, speed, and a sense of immunity and immortality, are killing people.

October 23, 2023

How Air Pollution Intersects with Unsafe Streets

Long-term exposure to toxic pollutants produced by cars and trucks causes heart disease, respiratory and lung issues in adults and children, dementia, miscarriage, psychotic episodes in teens, and reduced cognitive ability.

October 20, 2023

Who Gets Peace and Quiet?: Urban Noise in the COVID-19 Pandemic

During the COVID-19 stay-at-home advisories of 2020, the world quieted. As a community noise researcher, I felt the changes acutely.

October 18, 2023

The Rise of Bike Lanes in Lima

New quick-build bicycle lanes allowed many people to stay active and get around Lima, Peru during the pandemic.

October 17, 2023

Reimagining Streets for Safe, Active, and Joyful Trips to School

Ask any parent or caregiver about the school drop-off and pick-up routine, and chances are most would describe it as a stressful experience.

October 13, 2023

How to Reconnect Neighborhoods (and How Not to)

In order to achieve the goal of reconnecting communities, it is important to scrutinize previous attempts at these solutions to learn from past errors.

October 11, 2023

Highways to Hell: How One Country is Rethinking Road Investment

The Wales Roads Review – an unprecedented examination of whether investment in over fifty local road schemes should continue – signals high-profile change by the Welsh Government, prompted by the climate emergency.

October 6, 2023