Tag: traffic
How to argue with a traffic engineer about speed limits
It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s actually a valid question: How do you argue effectively with a traffic engineer? For safety-conscious civilians, certain elements of traffic design are especially confusing. When infrastructure blog Strong Towns recently asked for reader submitted questions, an interesting question came from Adam of Miami, FL, who […]
Have scientists been measuring traffic wrong all this time?
Transportation is changing, compelling experts to reexamine the way they analyze transport problems – and they may have been operating with faulty data for decades, argues Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, in a recent blog post on Planetizen. In the past, efforts to figure out how effective transportation systems are […]
Expert: Traffic jams signal economic vitality
Drivers take for granted that traffic jams are “bad” — who wants to sit at a standstill, burning off gas and anxiously planning out how we’ll compensate at work for the lost time? Yet a recent study suggests that in certain metro areas, traffic isn’t always all that bad — in fact, in certain areas […]