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Streets
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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…
2022-10-25
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…
2021-10-15
Beginner Tips For City Driving
Driving can be stressful for beginners, especially if you find yourself driving on busy roads when you are…
2021-02-22
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…
2021-01-26
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…
2021-01-18
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…
2021-01-18
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…
2020-09-07
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…
2020-06-16
Why Are Electric Scooters Dangerous?
Electric scooters seem like a fun way of getting around the city, but they’re far more hazardous than…
2020-06-05
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…
2020-05-28
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…
2020-02-18
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…
2020-02-05
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 …
2020-01-17
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…
2019-11-04
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…
2019-10-23
Critical Factors For Mitigating Car Traffic In Cities
Car traffic is a very much present problem in almost all — if not all — cities in…
2019-10-09
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…
2019-07-04
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…
2019-06-28
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…
2019-06-16
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…
2019-05-21
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…
2019-05-15
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…
2019-04-02
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…
2019-01-03
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…
2018-12-04
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…
2018-11-13
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…
2018-10-18
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…
2018-10-05
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…
2018-09-06
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.
2018-05-02
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…
2017-12-24
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…
2017-09-13
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…
2017-07-21
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…
2016-07-05
What Makes People Use Public Transport?
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more cities have realized that investment priority should…
2016-02-24
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…
2015-09-23
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…
2015-08-27
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…
2015-07-02
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…
2015-06-27
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…
2015-06-22
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…
2015-06-16
Expanding Walkability In African Cities
Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanising continent. Transit in cities will have to adapt to encourage walkability…
2015-04-23
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…
2015-04-16
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…
2015-04-13
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…
2015-04-11
Streets Are For People, Not Cars
What makes cities vibrant and successful? Top of the list is urban spaces – including streets – that are…
2015-03-25
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…
2015-03-19
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,…
2015-03-19
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…
2015-03-02
Copenhagen’s Cycling Innovation
From ‘green wave’ traffic lights and majestic harbour bike bridges to digital countdowns and foot rests at junctions,…
2015-02-25
Cars And Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
50 years ago, experts predicted automobiles would drain the life from urban areas. Their predictions are coming true.…
2015-02-16