Transportation engineering
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
Engineering Group Takes on High Speed Limits
One barrier to safer, more pedestrian friendly streets is slowing being dismantled.
January 18, 2019
The Engineering Manual Everyone but You Seems to Have
It took only one tweet, and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Engineering Excuses practically wrote itself.
June 25, 2018
The NCUTCD Wants to Know How You Think Speed Limits Should Be Set
The obscure but hugely influential committee is asking for direct feedback.
March 9, 2018
A Brief History of How American Transportation Engineers Resisted Bike Lanes
A new paper looks at what led the American engineering establishment to fall decades behind other countries on the development of bike infrastructure.
March 2, 2018
The High Priesthood of Transportation Engineering Has a New Leader
Veteran engineer Gene Hawkins steps in to the top role at NCUTCD at a critical moment for the American transportation engineering profession.
January 16, 2018
Transportation Engineers Are Ethically Bound to Protect Public Safety. Too Many Do Not.
Bill Schultheiss, a transportation engineer with Toole Design Group, is challenging his profession to uphold its ethical standards.
October 11, 2017
When Will America’s Street Design Bible Enter the 21st Century?
Last year, the number of people killed on U.S. roads surged back above 40,000. But you don't see much urgency on the part of the transportation engineering establishment to change a failing street design paradigm. So we checked in with one of the engineers in charge of America's street design bible.
March 14, 2017
Q&A With Dongho Chang, a Traffic Engineer Who Stresses Safety Over Speed
Dongho Chang belongs to a new generation of transportation engineers who see their job as more than moving cars. His work with Seattle DOT has established the city as a national leader on designing multi-modal streets. We recently spoke to Chang about his work in Seattle and how the profession is changing.
February 14, 2017
8 Transportation Engineering Euphemisms That Should Be Tossed Out
To this day, jargon that originated in the mid-20th Century highway era tilts transportation engineering against walking, biking, and transit.
January 17, 2017
