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- Urban freeways and transit infrastructure projects — often paid for in large part by federal transportation funds — have disproportionately displaced and isolated people living in minority neighborhoods, tearing at the fabric of vibrant communities and compounding issues of equity and access to jobs and essential services.
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Jul 27, 2021 · Urban freeways and transit infrastructure projects — often paid for in large part by federal transportation funds — have disproportionately displaced and isolated people living in minority neighborhoods, tearing at the fabric of vibrant communities and compounding issues of equity and access to jobs and essential services.
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Nov 16, 2020 · This is how cities can overcome their growing transport pains. New research from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) suggests how urban mobility systems can change to meet the needs of future populations. Around the world, people are increasingly migrating from rural to urban areas. By 2030, the United Nations estimates, megacities (those with at ...
Sep 5, 2019 · Growing frustration with worsening congestion, delays, and costs of contemporary urban transportation has led to the search for the magic bullet – the golden set of technologies that will solve urban transport problems in one fell swoop.
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- Public Transit in Crisis
- Traffic Is Rebounding
- Making City Streets More People-Friendly
Public transportation finances took a big hit during the pandemic as ridership shrank. Many cities responded by reducing bus and train service, eliminating routes and laying off employees. Whether urban public transportation can recover over the longer term is a critical question. So far, surveys suggest that more affluent riders are less willing t...
The increase in walking and bicycling during the pandemic was good news for many reasons. With less surface traffic, cities became quieter and less polluted. People could hear birds singing in many places for the first time and walk on streets free from busy traffic. Cities traditionally plagued with gridlock, such as Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los A...
Perhaps the most encouraging traffic-related news is that many cities are forging ahead with plans to reduce car travel and make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. The pandemic offered a unique opportunity to reimagine the city as a place where drivers had to share space with others. This also was a trend that predated COVID-19 but acceler...
Today’s entrepreneurial ecosystem in transportation is especially visible in the development of battery EVs, electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis, drone and robotic delivery of freight, and motor vehicle crash avoidance systems.
Jul 20, 2020 · However, American public transit infrastructure is crumbling and struggling to modernize. A comparison between public transportation networks construction costs in US megacities and their international counterparts raises concerns about how we spend our money.
Nov 30, 2023 · Unlike many global peers, American public transportation agencies are struggling to reach pre-pandemic ridership levels. Transit systems in Dublin and Vancouver are now moving roughly as many people as they did before COVID-19, but passenger trips in the Boston and Washington, D.C. regions are still down 24% and 19%, respectively.
