by The Conversation | Dec 13, 2018 | The Conversation
An increase in the use of self-driving cars will change parking requirements in the city. Jim Davies, Carleton University Everyone’s trying to get ready for roads that will be filled with more and more self-driving cars. But just as the first cars were imagined...
by The Conversation | Dec 11, 2018 | The Conversation
F. Todd Davidson, University of Texas at Austin; Dave Tuttle, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; Joshua D. Rhodes, University of Texas at Austin, and Kazunori Nagasawa, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Today, less than 2 percent of the vehicles Americans buy...
by The Conversation | Dec 4, 2018 | The Conversation
Marcus Mayers, University of Huddersfield and David Bamford, University of Huddersfield It can often be tempting to jump on a bus for a short journey through the city, especially when it’s raining or you’re running behind schedule. Where there are dedicated bus lanes...
by The Conversation | Nov 30, 2018 | The Conversation
Richard Llewellyn, Edinburgh Napier University The UK should raise its motorway speed limit for cars and vans to 80mph as a way of increasing national productivity, a government minister recently suggested. It’s a perennial political idea that has already been...
by The Conversation | Nov 29, 2018 | The Conversation
Peter Fox-Penner, Boston University; Jennifer Hatch, Boston University, and Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The world is on the cusp of dramatic changes in the ways people own, operate and power their means of transportation. Known as the “three...
by The Conversation | Nov 28, 2018 | The Conversation
Hiba Baroud, Vanderbilt University How does infrastructure in the U.S. compare to that of the rest of the world? It depends on who you ask. On the last two report cards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S. infrastructure scored a D+. This year’s report...
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