Fast Company looks at the attempt to attach design jumper cables to Flint, Michigan and shock the city into the 21st century.
Like many Rust Belt cities, Flint, Michigan, has seen its share of troubles: a drop in jobs (and population figures), along with a spike in crime. But Flint has .Read more...
Forbes and Jon Bruner look at unpaid parking tickets from UN Diplomats compared to the corruption levels in their home countries.
The correlation between political corruption and parking violations is statistically robust, but a quick comparison between the two maps suggests that it’s not universal. Russia and China, both of which .Read more...
The Los Angeles Times looks at new ideas in airport security from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The IATA proposal would funnel fliers through one of three checkpoint lanes based on their perceived security risk. Many fliers might be able to walk quickly through a tunnel while being automatically screened .Read more...
Now that ‘Carmageddon’ is over in Southern California, how bad was the traffic? Freakonomics blogger Eric A. Morris weighs in on the results.
In fact, Carmageddon saw stunningly low traffic levels, with many who did venture out reporting they had never driven at such speeds in LA in their lifetimes. Moreover, .Read more...
Artist Aaron Koblin uses flight path records to generate compelling works of art. From his website:
Air traffic as seen by the FAA. The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hesselsand Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames .Read more...
The St. Pete Times reports on Tampa, Florida’s red-light camera system.
What sets off a red-light camera?
A laser sensor about the size of a hockey puck is embedded in the middle of each lane behind the white “stop bar” line, which signifies the beginning of a signalized intersection.
If a car crosses .Read more...
Walt Disney expected monorails to be the public transportation of the future. Or are they a relic of the past?
The Wall Street Journal looks at monorails.
Although monorails have been around since the 19th century, they have mainly been short-line systems, limited to moving visitors around amusement parks or between airport .Read more...
Fast Company looks at designers using shipping containers as a medium.
Turn a corner nowadays, and you’ll find a building made out of shipping containers. So it was probably inevitable that architects would take this symbol of a “globalized, mobile, nomadic age,” to quote German curator Werner Lippert, to extreme places: .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks at legislation that would change current work rules for truckers and trucking companies.
The rules, proposed in December by a Transportation Department agency, would cut the daily driving limit for truck drivers to 10 hours from 11 hours. They would require drivers to be off duty .Read more...
The New York Times looks at the extensive highway work project expected to cause major disruptions this week.
You would think that Los Angeles, of all places, would know how to handle a catastrophe. But in just over a week, 11 miles of Interstate 405 — the north-south spine of the .Read more...
Google has been in the new with their robot car that uses software and a set of cameras to act as the driver. Fast Company looks at “How Google’s Robot Cars will Revive Sprawl”.
Google’s test cars had traveled 140,000 miles with only one accident. (A car was rear-ended while stopped .Read more...
