California Takes Legislative Steps to Address Growing Crude-by-Rail Shipments
"Oil imports by rail account for just about 1% of total shipments to California refineries," writes Marc Lifsher, Sacramento-based business reporter for the Los Angeles Times.Publication Date: Thu,...
View ArticleBenefits of Uber in Philadelphia: Reduced Drunk Driving
Jon Geeting updates the complicated issue of regulation of transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, where the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are still negotiating with the...
View ArticleConcerns Raised about Sprawl, Public Safety Implications of Autonomous Vehicles
Writing for Bloomberg, APublication Date: Wed, 07/16/2014
View ArticleAn Anti-Fracking Initiative...in Texas?
Voters in Denton, pop. 121,000, will decide in November "whether the city will become the state’s first to ban fracking.Publication Date: Sun, 07/27/2014
View ArticleProfiles of New Yorkers Killed by Car Collisions
Rhona Tarrant and Kat Aaron introduce the new interactive feature in an article that specifically describes ten of the people who have died in car crashes, of the 138 who have been killed so far this...
View Article'National Stop on Red Week'
Each day of the week, the National Coalition for Safer Roads website will focus on the safety concerns associated with red light running. Sunday, August 3 detailed the effects of red-light running,...
View ArticlePedestrian Safety Suffers in Low-Income Areas
Describing Miami’s 79th Street as an "especially dangerous thruway," Mike Maciag says the street "exemplifies a troubling reality of urban areas across the country: Pedestrian deaths are much more...
View ArticleSurvey Finds Chicago Drivers Failing to Yield for Pedestrians
"Most drivers tracked in a new Chicago-area survey failed to comply with a state law requiring them to stop for pedestrians, a finding that the research's backers Publication Date: Mon, 09/08/2014
View ArticleMayor de Blasio Claims Early Pedestrian Safety Success for Vision Zero
"During a speech this morning hailing the .26 percent of taxi and limousine drivers with spotless five-year driving records, de Blasio announced that as of last night, the city had seen a 20 percent...
View ArticleCell Phones Fail the Eyeball Test for Public Safety
"The dangers of distracted driving are well known and have sparked new laws, but safety experts are increasingly concerned about a more recent trend: distracted wPublication Date: Sat, 09/20/2014
View ArticleIs the Waze Police-Tracking Feature a Threat to Public Safety?
Fidel Martinez reports on a growing coalition that opposes the use of a feature from one of the darlings of the mobile apps scene—Waze. The feature in questions allows users to report the location of...
View ArticleHow Planning Can Reduce the Threat of Gender Violence
Rates of gender-based violence tend higher in Anchorage, and better planning is key to reducing them: "robust public infrastructure is critical [...].Publication Date: Fri, 04/03/2015
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Fracking Permits Temporarily Halted in North Carolina
Publication Date: Wed, 05/20/2015
View Article7 Principles for Designing Safe Cities
Brian Merchant reports: The World Research Institute (WRI) "just released a report that examines traffic statistics in cities around the world, and the findings are fairly unambiguous:...
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National Attention for the Bold Plan to Reshape Transportation in the City of...
Rather than calling the 200-page Mobility Plan 2035a "new and controversial exercise in behavior modification," as the Los Angeles Times did in our Publication Date: Mon, 09/07/2015
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A Negative Review of 'Vision Zero'
The "Vision Zero" movement is influencing planners around the world, encouraging them to give greater advantage to humans in the century-old battle between pedestrians and cars. A dozen cities in the...
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China Announces New Planning Policies to Improve Urban Life
"China has detailed its urban planning vision, which has been designed to make its sprawling cities more inclusive, safer and better places to live," according to an article in China Daily.Publication...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Facial Recognition on Transit Goes a Step Too Far
Prompted by concerns about crime, Dallas' DART system is experimenting with facial recognition software linked to an offender database. Although officials likely have good intentions, Michael...
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Vermont the Latest State to Post Fatality Figures on Roadside Signs
Aarian Marshall reports on a new road safety campaign by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), modeled on programs in Tennessee and Colorado. The method for the program: posting the number of...
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Mayoral Survey Reveals Deep Anxiety Over Infrastructure
Ben Wofford shares insights into the findings of Politico Magazine's fifth national Mayors Survey.Publication Date: Mon, 04/25/2016
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