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The costs and benefits of car ownership are difficult to weigh for many urban dwellers. Insurance, maintenance, increasingly high fuel prices, and the price of the vehicle itself are sometimes prohibitively expensive for the inf...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Strategies for reducing oil dependence range dramatically in ambition, scope, and effectiveness. When considering the most urgent among them, parking policy reform does not usually spring immediately to mind, but this does not m...
Posted Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 at 9:43 am | Filed in: Automotive, Policy, Transportation
On Tuesday, the Texas Transportation Institute released their latest data set on traffic congestion (the 2011 Urban Mobility Report). In 2010, drivers in U.S. urban areas are estimated to have wasted 1.9 billion gallons of fuel...
Posted Friday, September 30th, 2011 at 9:16 am | Filed in: Automotive, Oil, Transportation
With the Presidential election season kicking off after Labor Day, Congress back in session, the Supercommittee hard at work, the Solyndra debacle in full swing, and temperatures beginning to drop, summer has clearly come to an en...
Posted Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Transportation
Yesterday, the Financial Times released one of its Special Reports entitled The Future of the Car. The lead article, “Visions of mobility in the megacity” shows clearly how the vision for automobiles today and into the futur...
Posted Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 1:56 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
The most expensive parking spots in America reside in midtown Manhattan, with a median monthly rate of $541. And a permanent parking spot next to your apartment? The parking spot Helen Alton owns in downtown Boston goes for $1...
Posted Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 10:10 am | Filed in: Transportation
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Last week, President Obama warned Congress that a delay in passing a federal highway extension would put as many as 1 million ...
Posted Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 9:59 am | Filed in: Legislation, Policy, Transportation
After a natural disaster, people are hungry for traffic information: which roads are flooded and which have been cleared of fallen trees? How congested is traffic? What are the delay times for public transit and how fast are b...
Posted Monday, August 29th, 2011 at 11:31 am | Filed in: Transportation
With the current gas tax set to expire September 30, many are wondering what lies ahead for the future of the federal Highway Trust Fund. The current federal tax at 18.4 cents per gallon, is made possible by the Safe, Accountabl...
Posted Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 1:50 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Gas Prices, Policy, Transportation
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