Kea Wilson
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Why Mobility as a Service Needs a Proper Platform
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The public clearly has an appetite for mobility as a service. People want to plan, book and pay for various forms of transport via a digital platform. But mobility service providers are actors in search of a stage.
Calculator Shows How Many Cars Will Come to a New Highway
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A Colorado nonprofit has developed a calculator to help residents quantify how adding highway miles in their state will translate to more cars on the road, and they’re hoping advocates in other states will follow suit.
How COVID-19 Could End Our Dependence on Cars
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Achieving an outcome that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, while ensuring the development of safe and healthy cities, will require policy-makers and activists to act decisively. Our research on a general theory of car dependence suggests a few ways that they can do this.
EV Revolution Threatens Parking Reforms: Advocates
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As President Biden pushes to install electric vehicle chargers across America, some advocates are wondering where they will all go – and if the effort will deal a blow to the movement reform parking policy in our cities.
Traffic Model Predicts How Developments Will Affect Walkers
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A new traffic forecasting model may soon give cities the tools they need to project how a proposed development will impact a pedestrian’s ability to get around — and rethink their decision if the stuff they want to build discourages people from walking.
GOP Infrastructure Bill Goes All-In On Cars
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Senate Republicans celebrated Earth Day by releasing a counter-offer to President Biden’s infrastructure plan that would only deepen America’s dependence on gas-powered cars.
SUV and Pickup Purchases Soar — But Who’s Buying?
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Americans set a new record last month for SUV and pickup truck sales. But who's buying all these giant cars (mostly Republicans, it turns out).
Regulators Could Have Prevented Fatal Tesla Crash
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Two Tesla passengers are dead, partly because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ignored calls from the National Transportation Safety Board to require automakers to implement safe driver monitoring technology in "driverless" vehicles.
And the Sorriest Bus Stop in North America Is…
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Hint: North America has a new l’arrêt d’autobus le plus désolant.
Programs that Pay Residents to Give Up Cars Gain Support Worldwide
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France may soon pay its residents to trade their private cars for e-bikes, vehicle-share services, and even transit passes — and the move is re-igniting the conversation about unconventional ways our governments can subsidize the greenest modes of transportation.
Op-Ed: Sure, Blame the Drivers — But the City is At Fault
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A viral video out of California is sparking conversation about dangerous driving. But the real villain here is barely mentioned at all: a multi-lane street designed to encourage speeding,
USDOT Grants Will Prioritize ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Equity’
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The U.S. Department of Transportation is re-branding one of its largest discretionary grant programs to explicitly reward regional and local governments who put equity and sustainability first in their transportation projects. But some advocates are holding their applause until they see how the department will actually define those critical terms.