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Archive for the ‘Roadway Design’ Category
New York City’s Transportation Evolution
Monday, February 14th, 2011Life 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...
Copenhagen Bicycle Rush Hour
Monday, November 29th, 2010The 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...
Traffic Math to Ease Congestion
Thursday, October 21st, 2010Wall Street Journal writer Carl Bialik tackles the science behind traffic.
Mathematicians, engineers and planners are making steady advances in assessing traffic congestion and explaining it. Radar and GPS devices help pinpoint cars and relay traffic data in real time. And sophisticated models can explain maddening phenomena such .Read more...
Charles Komanoff: Father of the Balanced Transportation Analyzer
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Wired 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...
Flipping Traffic in Hong Kong
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Fast 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...
Redesigning New York City Sidewalks
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Sidewalk at 22nd and 5th in New York City.
Photo by Mark Arms
‘Country Driving’ in Red China
Monday, April 19th, 2010A 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...
South Asia leads World in Road Traffic Accidents
Monday, April 12th, 2010The 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...
Road Traffic Injuries among Leading Causes of Death by Age
Thursday, March 25th, 2010The 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...
