In what appears to be a new idea gaining traction in the transportation design world, the ‘Diverging Diamond Interchange’ has new proponents in Lexington, Kentucky. We highlighted this intersection design before at the Forensic Engineering Hub when it was implemented in Utah and we still can’t decide if it is .Read more...
Archive for March, 2011
New Diverging Diamond Interchange Reaches Kentucky
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Smithsonian.com: Secrets of the Colosseum
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Smithsonian.com examines the Colosseum:
The guesswork ends when you meet Heinz-Jürgen Beste of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the leading authority on the hypogeum, the extraordinary, long-neglected ruins beneath the Colosseum floor. Beste has spent much of the past 14 years deciphering the hypogeum—from the Greek .Read more...
Congestion Pricing
Monday, March 28th, 2011Japan: Before and After
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011The New York Times takes a fascinating look at Japan, before and after the earthquake and tsunami.
Cable Cars Over the Rio Favelas
Monday, March 21st, 2011Wired magazine looks at a $74 million idea for managing traffic in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
There’s nowhere for public transit to go. Nowhere, that is, but up. That’s the direction for the newest transportation system in Rio, slated to open in March: a six-station gondola line running above .Read more...
Super-slow-motion Video Sculptures
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.
Fast Company magazine looks at some exciting video from Tom Guilmette:
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you combined the eerie, delicate beauty of liquid sculpture photography with the hotel-room-trashing excess of Las Vegas, sports .Read more...
Charting Organized Crime
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Wired Magazine asks, “Just how organized is crime?”
Internet-Enabled Cars Susceptible to Hacking
Thursday, March 17th, 2011The New York Times references a new report by computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington regarding the susceptibility of new internet-based car computer systems:
For example, services like General Motors’ OnStar system, Toyota’s Safety Connect, Lexus’s Enform, Ford’s Sync, BMW’s Assist and Mercedes Benz’s Mbrace all .Read more...
Super Skyscrapers Continue to Reach for the Sky
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Despite the global recession, skyscrapers are still in vogue like the Shanghai Tower (above) by Gensler that boasts, “This super-tall, 632-meter tower will be sited in the heart of Shanghai’s Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, adjacent to the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center. As the most prominent .Read more...
YikeBike: The Electric Commuter Bike
Monday, March 14th, 2011
David Pogue from The New York Times writes,
“The YikeBike goes six miles on a charge (about 6 cents in electricity). That may not sound like much, but remember that you’re supposed to carry it inside with you. For example, you can just plug it in next to your desk at .Read more...
Examining the Metrodome Roof Collapse
Thursday, March 10th, 2011Guest Post by William C. Bracken, Translating Engineering
What is the expected cause of the collapse and what is going on now?
Shortly after the collapse of the Metrodome roof collapse the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission hired Walter P. Moore to conduct an assessment to determine repair to the roof.
What was the .Read more...
‘Sidewalk Rage’ as an evolution of Road Rage?
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011‘Road Rage’ and aggressive drivers are generally accepted components of the transportation landscape, but do the same behaviors translate to the sidewalks?
Is our tacit acceptance of anonymous misbehavior in the privacy of our SUV or sedan now finding its way off the road and into daily life? Is our dependency .Read more...
