Europe
In Trade Deal With Trump, Europe Sells Out its Pedestrians
The new trade deal between the European Union and the U.S. means that pedestrians from Lisbon to Helsinki will be endangered by big, American-made trucks.
September 11, 2025
Three Ways America Could Import Europe’s New Speed Limiter Law
Want to import Europe's most exciting new safety law? Think strategically.
July 1, 2024
LETTER FROM SWEDEN: Congestion Pricing Will Make New York a World-Class City
The choice is ours, New York: We can live in a nice, calm, pleasant and economically vibrant European-styled civilization, or we can continue to drive ourselves straight to ruin.
May 13, 2024
How Copenhagen Measures the Costs of Driving — And Crafts Policy to Reduce Them
The capital of Denmark is constantly doing the math on the true price of car culture. Could America follow their lead?
June 13, 2023
Exactly How Much Less America Walks Than Other Countries, In Five Charts
Two mobility researchers took on the daunting task of standardizing a messy range of global data on walking. Check it out.
April 14, 2023
What A Multimodal Urban Design Contest in Iceland Can Teach the U.S.
An open competition to design a new urban quarter in Iceland will prioritize sustainable transportation in a region that's proactively transitioning out of car dependency — and it could serve as a model for how to fill similar holes in growing U.S. communities.
February 13, 2023
That Viral NY Times Article on Road Death Was Only the Tip of the Iceberg
The New York Times jumped into the ongoing conversation about why American road deaths are so rapidly outpacing the rest of the industrialized world — but the scratch-the-surface approach left a lot of causes and solutions on the table.
December 1, 2022
The US, Where Road Violence is a National Crisis, Wants to Advise Other Countries On Road Safety
Don't do as I say — and definitely don't do as I do!
July 5, 2022
Ford’s Geofenced ‘Speed Limiters’ Might Not Cut Road Deaths As Much As You Think
The trouble with this "smart" tech, though, is that drivers can easily outsmart it — and that's by the company's and regulators' own design.
June 2, 2022
Using Cycling as an Indicator for Urban Quality of Life
Metropolitan areas around the world struggle with the same problem: More people means more traffic. But what if a significant portion of people living in cities relied on cycling or other modes of active transport?
January 7, 2022
