Wired magazine profiles New York City traffic guru Charles Komanoff:
Charles Komanoff has spent three years building a model of the traffic patterns in New York City. The result is an exhaustive accounting of every mile traveled, every slowdown encountered, and every hour wasted. (Above), a rundown of traffic .Read more...
Fast Company magazine profiles the new ‘Flipper’ bridge that joins Hong Kong to mainland China:
One of the most vexing aspects of traveling between mainland China and Hong Kong is the car travel: People in the former drive on the right side of the road; people in the latter drive .Read more...
Sidewalk at 22nd and 5th in New York City.
Photo by Mark Arms
A new book by a Peter Hessler looks at the state of roads and driving in China.
From Publishers Weekly:
In an epic road trip following the Great Wall across northern China, he surveys dilapidated frontier outposts from the imperial past while barely surviving the advent of the nation’s uniquely .Read more...
The group Next Generation Healthcare created this attractive graphic illustrating World Health Organization statistics on road traffic accidents by region.
According to Jodie Humphries at NGH:
The WHO global status report on road safety makes for shocking reading. Over 3000 people die on the world’s roads every day. Tens of .Read more...
The World Health Organization has an impressive Global status report on road safety describing the need for more attention to road traffic injuries and fatalities.
Approximately 1.3 million people die each year on the world’s roads, and between 20 and 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries. The Global status .Read more...
A fun story out of Los Angeles about a local artist, Richard Ankrom, who took matters into his own hands and altered the freeway signage on the 110 freeway with a handmade replica of an Interstate 5 North sign that was so good that Caltrans left the sign untouched for .Read more...
Christoph Niemann’s illustration collections in the New York Times are quickly becoming Gotham classics, but his latest work has a particular bent on roadway design and, specifically, the art of Google Maps.
A few of the best:
The official Christoph Niemann bio from the New York Times:
Fast Company has a great new graphic describing the new TIGER infratstructure plans (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery).
There was a time when infrastructure spending was going to be a large part of the economic recovery, and that time may have finally arrived. Here we offer a sample of several of .Read more...
Courtesy: Tom Vanderbilt
