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...
Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, writes at Slate about the evolution and possible future of stop signs as a traffic device. It’s good to remember that all of these traffic elements we take for granted (stop signs and drivers licenses to name two) evolved and changed over time.
Like many forms .Read more...
From TED.com:
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.
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...
The airport in Gibraltar is the only major airport runway that doubles as a traffic intersection for vehicle traffic. Cars are brought to a stop so planes can land and then are allowed to drive across the runway. This interesting roadway is set to be replaced .Read more...
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...
Hat tip: Tom Vanderbilt, How We Drive
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...
The temporary embarrassment and frustration of a traffic accident now has the potential to be trapped in time via Google StreetView.
Fast Company highlighted this collection of traffic accidents and fires found around the world on Google StreetView.
Courtesy: Tom Vanderbilt
The Daily Beast ranked the 75 worst commutes in America:
Bumper-to-bumper traffic is America’s collective nightmare, and like the movie Groundhog Day it repeats on a daily basis. Congestion consumes billions of gallons of fuel, wastes hundreds of billions of dollars in productivity and causes billions of stress headaches. Yet over .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal article ‘Shifting the Right of Way to the Left Leaves Some Samoans Feeling Wronged’ was one of the most read articles on the wsj.com website in 2010. It was interesting to learn that 30% of the world drives on the left side of the road.
Samoa is .Read more...
