transportation
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The True Cost of Free Parking: A Conversation with Henry Grabar
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Henry Grabar is the author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. His book examines how parking shapes Americans’ lives through day-to-day interactions such as violence over a parking spot to its role in affordable housing development. Paved Paradise questions whether parking is the most efficient use of space…
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Maintaining the Future of Public Infrastructure
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Hours before President Biden visited Pittsburgh in January 2022 to speak on infrastructure reform, one of the city’s major bridges collapsed—sending a bus and several cars down in the wreckage. The collapse injured at least ten people that morning, but Pittsburgh got lucky that day—15,000 cars typically drove across the…
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Can Variable Transit Fares Increase Equity?
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Campaigns to introduce what activists call “fair fares” on mass transit systems have recently taken root in U.S. cities. The idea behind these initiatives is to introduce a pricing system that is less regressive in order to promote equity for low-income riders. Most major U.S. public transit systems, including New…
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Can Vehicle Automation Help Us Save Energy?
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Technology for automated vehicles has developed rapidly over the past few years. The vehicles’ safety and convenience make them increasingly popular. At the same time, it has necessitated the introduction of new legislation to regulate an expanding market. On September 12, 2017, the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA)…
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Which Income Group Benefits from Commuting Subsidies? Lessons from Germany
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Most countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) offer one form or another of tax breaks for commuting expenses. In countries like Germany and Denmark, the cost of commuting to and from one’s place of work is exempted from taxable income. In the United States, parking expenses are exempt…
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How Public Bus Routes Can Deconcentrate Poverty and Promote Equity
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Initiatives that aim to address geographically concentrated poverty often focus on providing affordable housing. While such housing projects may increase quality of life for residents, they are unlikely to reduce the concentration of poverty in particular areas. New research suggests that a more effective approach to changing the geography of…
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Getting Older and Getting Around: Transportation Options for Senior Citizens
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A new study reviews the transportation preferences of senior citizens.
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Progress and Progressivism: Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Governing Today’s American City
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed sits down to talk about being a pragmatic progressive and why that doesn’t have to be an oxymoron.
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Editor’s Note: Urban Wheels Keep on Turning
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Welcome to this week’s Urban Affairs series on Innovation.
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Policy Radio | Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy at Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology, on Urban Sustainability
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This week, Jim Howes sits down with Jacky Grimshaw to talk about urban sustainability in Chicago and around the world.
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Rising Fuel Costs Drive Up Carpooling Rates
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A new study finds that drivers respond to higher fuel prices by forming more carpools and finding substitute modes of transportation.