Top news of the week: 04.08.2021.
Mobility
Can Americans Learn to Love – and Ride – Bus Transit?
Compared to other forms of transit, public buses are cheap, flexible and plentiful. But policymakers aren’t that interested in buses, and ridership is declining. It’s a problem that needs ...
Summer sustainability: Five ways to make your holiday more climate-friendly
Much like last year, this summer is set to look a little different to usual with many people taking holidays closer to home. But travelling to nearby destinations can still come with a ...
The answer to NZ’s transport future lies down a long tunnel in Whanganui
Our provincial cities had thriving public transport systems until they were wrecked in the early 1990s. Bernard Hickey visits Whanganui’s extraordinary Durie Hill Elevator to find out how ...
Get to know the SHOW partners: Municipality of Ballerup
Our focus is to contribute to the development and deployment of automated vehicles through a partnership with local businesses, Movia and the Technical University of Denmark …
Talking Headways Podcast: No More Transit Hunger Games
This week Dan Baer, senior vice president at WSP, talks with Kevin Corbett, president and CEO of New Jersey Transit. In this one-on-one conversation, Baer and Corbett talk about NJ ...
Despite limited participation, advocates see potential for Northeast transportation cap-and-invest plan
Only four of the over a dozen original participants of the Transportation and Climate Initiative signed on to a final program to cut transportation emissions. Backers say there's still a ...
Cullen on Climate and Light Rail
Sir Michael Cullen, ex-deputy prime minister and finance minister under Helen Clark, briefly an Auckland Transport director, and resident of coastal Bay of Plenty, used Incidentally, ...
Rough sleepers The pandemic has made homelessness more visible in many American cities
Policymakers have an unprecedented chance, and funding, to tackle the problem | United States