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...
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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...
Japan: 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...
Istanbul’s Underwater Highway
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011The controversial Turkish underwater highway under the Bosphorus is now under construction:
The construction of the underwater highway was officially begun Saturday by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a ceremony at Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa seaport. The highway, which is a joint project between Turkey and South Korea, .Read more...
New York City’s Transportation Evolution
Monday, February 14th, 2011Hat tip
Life After Left Turns: Superstreet or Michigan Left?
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Smithsonian.com writes about ‘Life Without Left Turns‘:
I still hate making left turns. I’m not the only one. UPS minimizes left turns for its delivery trucks to save on fuel. (And it works, as the Mythbusters demonstrated last year.) In the 1960s, the state of Michigan designed an intersection .Read more...
Debating Bike Lanes in New York City
Monday, January 24th, 2011The New York Times debates car culture and bike lanes in New York City. Robert Sullivan writes:
On the argument that bike lanes should be eliminated given that they are not used during the winter, which I guess means no one noticed me biking around all this week, trying .Read more...
Does the E-ZPass Help Save Babies?
Monday, December 20th, 2010Freakonomics Blog reviews the effects of the E-ZPass:
Among its many perks, there’s now evidence that E-ZPass may help save babies. Janet Currie and Reed Walker utilize the introduction of E-ZPass to examine the health effects of traffic congestion on infants. The authors “compare infants born to mothers .Read more...
The Ergonomic Crosswalk
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010The ‘Ergo Crosswalk’ by Korean designer Jae Min Lim debuted at the Seoul International Design Competition.
“When people cross roads, they tend to take the fastest shortcut. they sometimes do it intentionally, but mostly it is an unconscious act. this kind of action violates the traffic regulations and sometimes .Read more...
Adding Roundabouts Reduced Accidents 80% in Indiana Town
Monday, November 1st, 2010Newsweek reports on the proliferation of roundabouts in America:
Round-abouts, the circular alternatives to stoplights, are common abroad, where they eliminate one of driving’s most dangerous moves—the left turn against oncoming traffic—and can reduce fatal accidents by as much as 90 percent.
Fortunately, the U.S. is also starting .Read more...
Construction at Root of Chinese Traffic Jam
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010The 60-mile Chinese traffic jam made headlines around the world.
What caused the traffic spectacle?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing and is stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started Aug. 13. The following week, .Read more...
