Transportation

What Appleyard found was that the amount of car traffic on the street dictated how friendly neighbors were with each other, how “at home” people felt in their neighborhood, and how familiar they were with their surroundings.

With all the scare stories of autonomous cars of late, here are some much-needed examples of autopilot driver saves.

Nearly half of those who owned a car said they would consider giving it up if they could count on public transportation options.

The Oregon Department of Transportation announced the first round of funding for the Safe Routes to School Competitive Grant Program.

An Australian researcher has pared back the science to create simple and helpful two-legged robots that are actually cost-effective.

The report looks at 3 trajectories for how urban traffic and transport patterns could evolve, and what that means for the environment (among other things).

Zellner and her husband liked the town, with its restaurants, brewery, and nearby ski area. But a year later, they had moved on — in part, she said, because of how hard it was to travel for business.

Bringing all these tools and algorithms under one integrated system will enable operators to monitor safety risk in real-time and develop interventions that alleviate the potential problems and prevent crashes or at least mitigate their severity.

“We’re going to be electrifying the F-Series — battery electric and hybrid,”

This is going to happen in downtowns in the near future.”