Transport Planning & Policy

With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo's commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on E...

Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Hig...

Congress is considering legislation to strengthen federal regulation of auto safety, in response to hundreds of reported accidents, and more than 5...

The disparity between urban and rural motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. is well documented in academic research and reports show discrepancy bet...

Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020. Travel writer and journalist Gail Simmons follows in the footsteps of Robert Louis S...

Much of recurring congestion is due to physical bottlenecks -- potentially correctable points on the highway system where traffic flow is restricte...

As the U.S. population ages, access to safe and reliable transportation alternatives is critical to helping older adults remain in their homes as l...

Speeding is defined as exceeding posted speed limits or driving too fast for conditions. This is a behaviour that some drivers engage in without re...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation''s faltering economic conditions. One optio...

Almost all commercial service airports in the United States are owned by local and state governments, or by public entities such as airport authori...

Public transit systems, which receive funding from the federal government, are vulnerable to catastrophic events, as demonstrated by the impact Hur...

The increasing use of cellular phones has served as a catalyst for growing interest in driver distraction in recent years. While the use of cellula...

Transportation infrastructure has a significant meaning for the economic growth, the mobility of labour, the opportunities for tendering transport ...

In fiscal year 2013, the Department of Transportation (DOT) provided about $50 billion to states and other grantees (such as metropolitan planning ...

This book questions the ethics of government officials'' and automobile industry representatives'' strategies to promote automobiles over other for...

Public health is now considering road safety as a major factor to improve morbidity and mortality but the health community is poorly educated regar...

Since the early 1980s, the periodic debate over the reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs has been primarily about money and i...

The omnipresent global economic crisis has had a particularly dramatic effect on the global automotive industry. It has increased the need for a 3r...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation''s faltering economic conditions. One optio...