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Why South Carolina Has Some of the Worst Drivers (and How It Impacts Car Insurance Rates)
There are lots of great things about living in South Carolina, but unfortunately, good drivers are not on…
How People On Foot React To Automated Vehicles
How do Swiss passers-by react when a moving car is on the road without a driver? This is…
How To Avoid Pedestrian Accidents And Stay Safe On The Road
There are so many things to think about when you are walking on the road. You have to…
Beginner Tips For City Driving
Driving can be stressful for beginners, especially if you find yourself driving on busy roads when you are…
Battle On The Road: What Do Bikers Think Of Car Drivers?
Road rage, abuse and conflict is all too common on roads across the globe. With an ever-increasing number…
How Covid-19 Affected America’s Rush Hour In 2020
The 2020 edition of TomTom’s Traffic Index has found that the global pandemic brought about a halt to increasing levels…
Why Bicycle Accidents Can Be So Devastating
Cycling has become an international sensation. Like most sports, there are peaks and valleys of popularity. As much…
Connected City Streets Mean Healthier Residents And Communities
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world are rediscovering the value of walkable and…
A Truck Driver’s Guide To Safety On The Road
Working as a truck driver can be a laborious career and added to it the potential danger that…
Why Are Electric Scooters Dangerous?
Electric scooters seem like a fun way of getting around the city, but they’re far more hazardous than…
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
Europe’s Worst Cities For Traffic Congestion
Among the cities of Europe, Moscow has the worst traffic congestion. This is according to the 2019 edition…
Where US Commuters Spend The Most Time Stuck In Traffic
The commuters of Los Angeles experience the worst traffic conditions in the United States. This is based on…
In 2026, Hackers Taking Over Self-Driving Cars Can Gridlock Cities
By taking over even a small proportion of driverless cars, hackers can paralyze city operations, according to a …
Mobility-As-A-Service: The Value Proposition For The Public And Our Urban Systems
Private car ownership is going down soon — it is time for Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) to shine. In a…
The Most Congested Cities In Asia 2019
Being stuck in a traffic gridlock could easily ruin a good day. While there are some small things…
Critical Factors For Mitigating Car Traffic In Cities
Car traffic is a very much present problem in almost all — if not all — cities in…
4 Tips For Driving In San Diego
San Diego is certainly a beautiful place with plenty of great attractions, but even the most avid supporter…
The Cities With The Worst Traffic Congestion
Traffic congestion is a problem of almost every city. Too many cars on the streets affect mobility, environment…
World’s Best Cities For Street Art
Today we take it for granted that we can open up Instagram and immediately be connected to some…
Stuck In Traffic? Productive Things You Can Do While In Your Car
For most people, congested traffic is a daily scenario when going to classes or to work. This problem…
Essentials For Making City Driving Easier
An average of 6 million motor vehicle accidents happen in the US, and 3 million people are injured from a…
These 8 Cities Are Taking Bold Steps To Get Rid Of Cars
Cities around the world are starting to see that they’ll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if…
Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don’t Know Where They’re Going
Traffic and kids don’t mix. That’s something people intuitively understand. Automobile collisions disproportionately kill kids, for starters. Heavy traffic…
How To Turn A Car Town Into A Cycling City
As the home of Royal Philips Electronics for more than 125 years, the southern Netherlands city of Eindhoven…
Why Walkable Cities Are Good For The Economy, According To A City Planner
People spend more money when cities are less vehicle-oriented. You’ve probably seen the term “walkability” thrown around in…
Does Racial Bias Show Up In The Crosswalk?
African Americans may have to wait in a crosswalk about 32 percent longer than white people before drivers…
How Zoning Laws Are Holding Back America’s Cities
Early city planners dreamt up elaborate ideas for America’s cities. But in their dreaming, they had forgotten the…
7 Of The World’s Wackiest Interchanges And Intersections
Normally, the basic rules of the road are enough to keep traffic in order, but sometimes sheer volume…
Superblocks : How Barcelona Is Taking City Streets Back From Cars
Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars, one block at a time: This video is from Vox.
A Machine-Learning Census Of America’s Cities
Millions of images of public streets offer a cheap, sweeping view of America’s demography. “WOULD it not be…
16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
IF YOU THINK the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like…
The Immense Impact of Street Design In Our Behavior
As dozens of cities try to emulate Sweden’s success, they’re learning what works and what doesn’t. Shirley Gonzales…
Promote Walking For Health? How About For Whimsical Fun?
In Covington, Kentucky, local businesses and design teams collaborated on quirky installations that take up as much space…
What Makes People Use Public Transport?
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more cities have realized that investment priority should…
How Road Diet Works For Urban Mobility
Planner Jeff Speck leads a video tour of four different street redesigns. A road diet is a great…
Life On The Slow Lanes In The U.S.
Traffic congestion nationally reached a new peak last year and is greater than ever before, according to a…
What Cities Can Do to Increase the Use of Alternative Transport
A few weeks ago, we invited people to share their thoughts with us about what their cities could…
Stacking Cases For Street Park Conversion To Bike Lanes
San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to add protected bike lanes on Polk Street, one of…
Discovering The Simple Basics Of Pedestrian Behaviour
Our sidewalk interactions are “fundamentally anticipatory in nature,” according to scientists. Big city sidewalks can feel like an…
A Case Study In Flawed Street Design
The New Urbanist neighborhood of Stapleton, Colorado, suffers from compromised planning standards. The above picture shows an example…
Expanding Walkability In African Cities
Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent. Transit in cities will have to adapt to encourage walkability…
Woonerf : Shared Streets Are Living Streets
The woonerf, or “shared street,” has made its way into U.S. cities. If you aren’t a traffic engineer…
Complete Streets 2.0 : The Transformation Of New Haven’s Streets
The city’s new approach puts an emphasis on fast, cheap, and lean designs. As a local activist in…
The One Chart That Explains All Your Traffic Woes
When we build more roads, we invite more cars. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in traffic in…
Streets Are For People, Not Cars
What makes cities vibrant and successful? Top of the list is urban spaces – including streets – that are…
The Insanity Of City Street Grids
A new data visualisation reveals exactly how serpentine some cities’ road patterns can be. Stephen Von Worley—whose previous…
The Laws That Shape Washington, D.C.’s Sidewalks
Ever wonder why some cities have great sidewalks, while others don’t? In this short film from City Walk,…
Netherlands’s Glow-In-The-Dark Highways
After months of pilot testing, a glow-in-the-dark smart highway in the Netherlands has finally gone public in the…
Copenhagen’s Cycling Innovation
From ‘green wave’ traffic lights and majestic harbour bike bridges to digital countdowns and foot rests at junctions,…