Highways are not great for the planet. Their smooth, wide, inviting lanes have helped make transportation the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, responsible for 29 percent of the ...

For decades, the United States has built and expanded a 220,000-mile network of state and interstate highways, easing cross-country travel while dividing cities and boosting suburban sprawl. But as ...

Congress is currently debating reauthorization of federal surface transportation legislation and the stakes could not be higher, or timelier. As we work within our respective states and with our ...

Arguing in favor of his tariffs, President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter Sunday that the US had “no debt” and “a big system of tariffs” when it built “everything from Highways to the Military with ...

Tired of idling in an endless traffic jam while workmen rebuild the pockmarked roadway? Highway engineers in this state think they have the answer. On new highways and major reconstruction of existing ...

Amy Silverstein has a great piece in the Observer that is well worth your time. In it, she catalogs the background and evolution of the “Northeast Gateway” all the way back to the passing of a law in ...

It would be easy to dismiss Charles Marohn as a crank. At a time when half of Washington is batting around numbers that purport to reveal how much money Congress should spend to save the nation’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- To solve traffic bottlenecks, one needs to expand capacity. That has not been easy. Over the years, several other highways were proposed, only to be cast aside as too expensive, ...

NASA’s urban air mobility airspace architect is looking into the considerations of flight safety management for large drones, copters and urban air taxis. The future urban air mobility market is ...

For suburban mayors looking for financial help to build roads, the message Thursday was to keep looking. Illinois Secretary of Transportation Kirk Brown, speaking to the Kane County Council of Mayors ...

As the neighborhoods in and around downtown Dallas redeveloped in recent decades, they became hotbeds for millennials who, more than their parents did, rely on everything from walking and shared bikes ...

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