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Prettier Buses Get More Rides
David Mocarski on the art of attracting people to public transit Mocarski and his students are hoping to change the way Los Angeles thinks...
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Ticket to Ride
How to appease the interest groups keeping congestion pricing from our cities. In 2003, London enacted a congestion-pricing plan that charged...
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Transportation Innovation
Joseph M. Sussman, an external adviser to the Department of Transportation and professor at MIT, explains why the stimulus isn't good enough...
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Infra What?
A brief look at where that $100 billion worth of infrastructure money is going "We have to come up with a sexier word than ‘infrastructure.'"...
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Who’s Driving?
These people will shape transportation policy during the next four years. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Ray LaHood Secretary of...
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Issue 015 Intro: From A to B
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, despite a rapidly worsening global crisis, the focus was on the future. In particular, an exhibit called...
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Going Down The Rabbit Hole
The future of transportation may mean not moving at all. Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and technology theorist, envisions a future in which...
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The Street of the Future Is a Livable Street
It's easy to forget that our streets are alterable. They weren't set down by God on the eighth day; they were designed by human beings....
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The End of the Roads
We have as much road capacity today as we will ever need. In my efforts to get Portland, Oregon's Peak Oil Task Force, [which identifies...
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Beam Me Up (Or Not)
Why one very smart scientist can teleport an atom, but not a coffee cup. Christopher Monroe and fellow quantum physicists at the University of...
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The Time of the Jetpack Is Now
Ever since Buck Rogers comics of the 1930s popularized the notion of a personal flying machine-variously referred to as a "rocket belt" or...
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Why Airborne Cars Won't Fly
The car of the future still hasn't come to pass.
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Don't Kill Your Car
We're sure you want to, but try one of these instead. What's best for the planet? What's best for you? The ultimate guide to alternative-fuel...
Business
Detroit Must Fail
Why we should forgo the bailouts altogether. Last fall, the Center for Automotive Research produced a study predicting the economic impact of a...
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Sorry, Portland
A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America In any list of the best biking cities on the continent, Portland, Oregon, would...
