Archive for May, 2012

IEEE: Disaster Forensics

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

An IEEE article from Alexis Kwasinski looks at disaster forensics.

It’s my job to drive straight into the heart of disaster zones.

On 11 March, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a monstrous tsunami that smashed into Japan’s northeast coast, killing more than 15 000 people in minutes and reducing entire towns to rubble. In the .Read more...

Fluctuating Parking Costs to Manage Congestion

Friday, May 25th, 2012

The New York Times looks at utilizing economic principles to manage the availability of parking spaces.

But San Francisco is trying to shorten the hunt with an ambitious experiment that aims to make sure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that has meters. The program, .Read more...

How Slow is Too Slow? Discussing Minimum Speed Limits

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Guest Post by Mark Perkins, Perkins and Associates

While there are statutory maximum speed limits, there are no statutory minimum speed limits in Louisiana. In recent years there have been attempts to institute minimum speed limits but no law has ever been passed setting a minimum speed limit.

The closest thing to a .Read more...