To Beat Traffic, San Francisco’s I-80 Is Getting ‘Smarter,’ Not Bigger
More than 270,000 vehicles make their way down San Francisco’s Interstate 80 every day. Many of those vehicles will spend hours in gridlock traffic. Thousands will get into accidents every year...
View ArticleWalnut Creek has green-light alert for drivers
A suburban city in the East Bay Area will allow commuters to use a new app that links their smartphones to traffic lights....
View ArticleCould Infrared Technology Vaporize Potholes in Philly?
After this year’s brutal winter, Philadelphia officials say they’re on pace to patch up a record number of potholes. In Pennsylvania, one state lawmaker says the pothole situation is so “out of...
View ArticleDetroit bus analytics Detroit Tapping Analytics To Improve Transit
Detroit is working with an analytics startup to identify areas of weakness in its transit networks and create efficient solutions to improve services....
View ArticleCambridge to install side-guards on city trucks
Cambridge officials are teaming up with federal transportation safety experts to help prevent serious or deadly crashes involving hulking city vehicles and the cyclists they share the roads with....
View ArticleThe American City That’s Adopting a Pay-What-You-Can-Afford Model for Public...
For Andrea Smith, a Seattle resident who commutes to her job at a nonprofit theater daily by bus, the latest fare hikes for a monthly transit pass were making the trek unaffordable, particularly as...
View ArticlePortland Debuts Rain-Themed 'Creative Crosswalks'
It’s not just being weird this time—there’s a safety value to the new crossings...
View ArticleColorado Department of Transportation Pilots Traffic Blimp
Is it a blimp? Is it a traffic monitoring device? Or is it an aerostat? It's all of the above, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is using it to prove that innovation may just pay off...
View ArticleKansas City completes ‘Smart City’ streetcar line agreement with Sprint and...
Kansas City has reached a final agreement with Sprint and Cisco Systems to create a “Smart City” set of high-tech services along the 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line...
View ArticleBlipTrack detects Bluetooth, shows real-time data on digital signs, eases...
Bluetooth is being used to monitor traffic and display information to drivers in the city of Aarhus, Denmark...
View ArticleIs a transportation free-for-all coming to Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle?
The concept, called shared space, removes traffic signals, signage, crosswalks, lane markings and curbs, setting up a sort of free-for-all plaza where pedestrians, drivers and cyclists must watch out...
View ArticleMeet the Best of the Best in Transportation Planning
From mass transit projects to new highways, bridges, sidewalks and hiker/biker trails, effectively addressing transportation needs in communities across the nation shares one common foundation —good...
View ArticleDriverless Car Testing and Big Data Intersect in Simulated City
At MCity, the University of Michigan’s stage-set village for driverless cars, which launched last month, it’s not just the automakers that are experimenting....
View ArticleNew technology could help cities inspect and maintain streets more efficiently
Christoph Mertz spends his days looking at cracks in the street....
View ArticleSpider vans crawl US roads to prove poor conditions to lawmakers
The white Ford van rumbled down Devonshire Street, past the green-trunked palo verde trees and graveled lawns of central Phoenix. Lasers up front mapped the road's roughness, and high-definition...
View ArticleFlorida’s New Target in the Fight Against Sprawl: Too Many Roads
Several counties have turned to “mobility fees” that discourage highway expansion and steer development toward cities....
View ArticleColorado Department of Transportation Pilots Traffic Blimp
Is it a blimp? Is it a traffic monitoring device? Or is it an aerostat? It's all of the above, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is using it to prove that innovation may just pay off...
View ArticleKansas City completes ‘Smart City’ streetcar line agreement with Sprint and...
Kansas City has reached a final agreement with Sprint and Cisco Systems to create a “Smart City” set of high-tech services along the 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line...
View ArticleBlipTrack detects Bluetooth, shows real-time data on digital signs, eases...
Bluetooth is being used to monitor traffic and display information to drivers in the city of Aarhus, Denmark...
View ArticleIs a transportation free-for-all coming to Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle?
The concept, called shared space, removes traffic signals, signage, crosswalks, lane markings and curbs, setting up a sort of free-for-all plaza where pedestrians, drivers and cyclists must watch out...
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