Transportation Demand Management
Highway Boondoggles: Madness in Michigan
The Great Lakes State is undertaking to expand the capacity of Interstate 75 — a project that is both unnecessary and will exacerbate the region’s problems.
June 21, 2019
Report: No to Infrastructure — Yes to Congestion Pricing
A new Brookings report says U.S. highway conditions have been improving every year for more than a decade, according to the Federal Highway Administration's own accounting.
February 14, 2019
Report Offers Better Ways to Cut Traffic from New Development
What if instead of requiring developers to add parking or widen roads, we asked them to do things that discouraged driving and car ownership? That's what Smart Growth America recommends.
October 17, 2018
Aspen Experiments With Paying People Not to Drive Downtown
Drivers who shift to transit, biking or carpooling will earn points that can be cashed out at local businesses.
August 27, 2018
Arlington Makes It Easier for Teachers to Stop Driving to School
A first-of-its-kind program in Arlington, Virginia, uses incentives to encourage teachers to carpool, walk, or bike to school.
August 22, 2017
How Seattle Children’s Hospital Took the Lead on Healthy Transportation
It's more than a little ironic that in many places, hospitals are some of the worst offenders when it comes to perpetrating unhealthy transportation patterns. Often surrounded by enormous parking decks, hospitals have earned a reputation as isolated institutions hermetically sealed off from surrounding neighborhoods.
May 8, 2015
Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown
Streetsblog's Parking Madness competition has highlighted the blight that results when large surface parking lots take over a city's downtown. Even though Rochester, winner of 2014's Golden Crater, certainly gains bragging rights, all of the competitors have something to worry about: Cumulatively, the past 50 years of building parking have had a debilitating effect on America's downtowns.
April 10, 2014
Apple Transportation Program Stuck in the Past
As an avid iPhone user, I have bought into the sense that Apple could literally peer into the future and deliver me technology that I never realized I would so desperately need.
April 9, 2014
How to Reduce Traffic By 30 Percent: Strike Fear Into Motorists
Organizers of major sporting events, from this weekend's "Mass Transit Super Bowl" to the Sochi Olympics a week from now, may benefit from a lesson learned during the 2012 London Olympics: a tactic transportation planners secretly call “the Big Scare.”
January 31, 2014
Ohio College Gives Bikes to Students Who Agree to Leave Cars at Home
Here's a college that takes sustainable transportation seriously: The University of Dayton gave away 100 bikes to incoming freshman this year in exchange for an agreement that they would leave their cars at home.
August 30, 2013