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DATA DUMP: Total Driving is Down in All Major U.S. Cities
Americans are indeed driving less — up to 94 percent less in some places — as the global COVID-19 pandemic keeps people at home, but rural segments of the country are not doing their share to flatten the curve.
April 6, 2020
Five Reasons Why Trump’s Fuel Standards Rollback is Terrible
Here's the only story you need on why the Trump administration is wrong to gut an Obama-era rule to make cars cleaner and more efficient.
April 2, 2020
Ten Simple Policies to Subtract Cars From Our Streets
Want less road carnage? We need fewer cars on the roads. Here are some tools cities are already using (and should consider using) to save lives and reduce auto use.
February 24, 2020
Vision Zero is Missing Something Big: Getting Cars Off the Road
A leading transportation researcher argues for the addition of a sixth pillar to the five-part strategy.
February 21, 2020
Connecticut’s Transportation Plan Stymies Its Future
What is Gov. Ned Lamont doing building all these new roads to compete with transit?
November 19, 2019
New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes–in California
Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.
March 26, 2019
How Two Cities Actually Reduced Driving
The number of driving miles declined in both cities even as population (and Uber!) has grown quickly.
February 8, 2019
All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List
More traffic, less transit trips, more traffic deaths, greater social stratification: A comprehensive list. (It's long.)
February 4, 2019
We Can’t Stop Global Warming Without Reducing Driving
Electric vehicles aren't going to cut it, emissions-wise. We need to do more.
December 18, 2018
Urban Myth Busting: Congestion, Idling, and Carbon Emissions
Increasing road capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will backfire.
July 6, 2017
