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Forbes: “Researchers have found that almost all road users break the law, but the reasons for the infractions differ between modes. Motorists break road rules to save time while cyclists do so to save their necks. Reported on JSTOR Daily on August 28, a study initially carried in the Journal of Transport and Land Use …
Ryan’s Blog: “Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them. They will be a big driver of shifting more car trips to other modes. And shifting more families to owning fewer, or even no cars. When we need …
Wired: “We’ve revamped this guide to focus more on domestic travel in the US and removed some sections of the international advice, which is now in its own, separate article. We added information on downloading and using digital proof-of-vaccination apps, as well as alternatives to rental cars, and we’ve updated quarantine information and required proof …
Popular Science: “On February 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its COVID-19 community spread level criteria and its mask guidelines. The changes have allowed 70 percent of Americans to go unmasked indoors, in theory. However, this does not apply to the vast majority of public transportation, even in areas where general …
Center for Data Innovation – “The Economist has created a visualization depicting changes to commercial flights through Ukrainian airspace after the EU Aviation Safety Agency labeled it an active conflict zone. The visualization shows the flight paths of planes over Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia on February 23rd and 24th. According to the visualization, pilots have …
“Today marks the release of a new Earth Track analysis, Protecting Nature by Reforming Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: The Role of Business, written by Ronald Steenblik and myself. Ron and I have worked together on subsidy transparency, valuation and reform for more than a quarter century at this point, and his expertise has always been hugely …
Road and Track: “If you live in New York and drive a loud car, you could receive a notice from the city’s Department of Environmental Protection telling you your car is too loud. Not because a police officer caught your noisy car, but because a computer did. Road & Track reports: A photo of an …
“We’ve just updated the search function on the main Flightradar24.com map page to make finding the flights you’re looking for even easier. These updates bring the features that have been available in the app to the web and improve the speed and responsiveness of search as well. In this post we walk through some of …
Liberty Street Economics, February 8, 2022: “Total household debt increased substantially during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a $1.02 trillion increase in aggregate debt balances, according to the Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the fourth quarter of 2021 from the New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data. The yearly …
PC World: “Have you looked for a new or used car recently? Demand and prices are through the roof. Microsoft has just made finding a new car a little easier: Microsoft, MSN, and the Bing search engine has launched what it calls Autos Marketplace. Naturally, the Autos Marketplace site allows you to filter by make, …
“Every year, Euromonitor International identifies emerging and fast-moving trends that are expected to gain traction in the year ahead. These trends provide insight into changing consumer values, exploring how consumer behaviour is shifting and causing disruption for businesses globally. Each of the 10 trends in this report follows the same format: Overview and defining characteristics; …
“Roads are chronically congested and vehicles queue endlessly at junctions. Rush hour is especially bad for long traffic jams. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, researchers in the institute branch for industrial automation INA in Lemgo are using artificial intelligence for smart traffic light control as part of the …
