Tom Vanderbilt’s latest Slate column discuss Diverging Diamond intersections that we have discussed before here and here at the Hub.
There is, however, a cheaper, less disruptive approach, one that promises its own safety and efficiency gains, that has become recently popular in the United States: the diverging diamond interchange. There’s .Read more...
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A Yahoo.com report looks into scams related to traffic cameras.
The scam is simple. A no-good type picks your phone number at random and, once you answer, tells you that you have an overdue red light camera fine. The only way to avoid a significant late fee, a court case, or .Read more...
The Transport Politic profiles the progress of public transport in Utah.
Much thanks to federal spending, the Salt Lake City metropolitan area practically doubled the size of its TRAX light rail network this weekend, adding two extensions a year early and 20% under budget. Though estimates predict relatively modest ridership on the new .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal takes at look at Nigeria cracking down on people driving the wrong way on one-way streets.
Seeking to stem an epidemic of wrong-way driving, Lagos authorities have ratcheted up the standard $160 fine. Scofflaws now also face psychiatric evaluations. Contesting the charge can jack up the fine .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks into private railroad cars (or ‘office car’) making a comeback with private kitchens, dining rooms, and sleeping areas.
If corporate jets are your idea of sky’s-the-limit business travel, try riding a corporate train.
Every big American railroad has one for its bosses: a string of sleepers, dining .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal discusses the future of air travel as the airlines would have us believe:
A new generation of planes—including jets from Airbus and Bombardier Inc. and led by BoeingCo.’s 787 Dreamliner, which is slated to enter service with Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. sometime this summer—promises to offer passengers a .Read more...
Christine Haughney from the New York Times looks at toll avoiders exploiting the E-ZPass system.
For eight years, Alfred Buono had made it a twice-weekly occurrence: He would drive his car across a bridge from New Jersey to Staten Island and not pay the toll — doing so a total of .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks at congestion on American roads and how to get things moving.
We have tremendous technology available that could help make transportation smoother and more efficient. Traffic signals that are centrally controlled by computer can optimize the flow of traffic. Electronic toll-collection tags let drivers pay without .Read more...
Progressive Insurance is looking at new ways of approaching the car insurance business. Malia Wollan and Fast Company look at the new technology they are considering to change the policy pricing models of today.
When Glenn Renwick, the chief executive of insurance giant Progressive, sits down to dinner with his wife .Read more...
Guest Post by Kevin Blomberg, Parking In Motion
Nobody enjoys parking. The word itself has been known to summon a curse word or two.
Over the last few years, however, the industry’s produced exciting innovations will not only make parking a more seamlessly integrated experience, but also a more environmentally friendly one. Automated parking garages, which .Read more...
Mayor Bloomberg unveiled New York’s new ‘Midtown in Motion’ traffic system. More from Fast Company:
Midtown in Motion, a $1.6 million real-time traffic management system from NYC’s Department of Transportation, prevents gridlock with a network of sensors and cameras that allows operators to adjust traffic signal patterns on the fly.
Midtown in .Read more...
Forbes and Jon Bruner look at unpaid parking tickets from UN Diplomats compared to the corruption levels in their home countries.
The correlation between political corruption and parking violations is statistically robust, but a quick comparison between the two maps suggests that it’s not universal. Russia and China, both of which .Read more...
