Increase in e-commerce-related last-mile deliveries clog urban streets

Streets as Places: How Transportation Can Create a Sense of Community

While streets were once a place where we stopped for conversation and children played, they are now the exclusive domain of cars. Even where sidewalks are present along highways and high-speed streets, they feel inhospitable and out of place.

New Design Guide Helps Planners Hack Tactical Urbanism

Getting into the nitty-gritty of street interventions.

What Self-Driving Trucks Could Mean For Your Next Delivery

Can a line of trucks rumble down the highway by themselves? That's the plan.

Healthy Commutes: Why Public Transit Is Miles Better Than Driving

How you commute can make a difference in your health as well as your happiness.

How Super-Small, European-Style Delivery Vehicles Could Make U.S. Streets Safer

A growing class of cargo vans enables smarter intersection design.

Can Innovative Transportation Options Help Increase Clinical Trial Diversity?

Once reliant solely on buses and subway systems, our nation’s seniors may soon have new choices on how to navigate their communities, including to their ...

How Crowdsourced Delivery Can Clean Up the Urban Last Mile

The last mile is the most costly and time-consuming part of the shipping process, thanks to high-quantity package drop-offs and low-quantity volumes.

How Delivery Drones Are Saving Lives in Rwanda

To build safe streets, we need to address racism in urban design

Investing in infrastructure and street design might not be enough to build safe street as data shows that, nationally, street safety is dictated by race and class.

How the internet is clogging city streets

Ride-hailing apps and robot cars promise to change how we get around and the effects are already being felt.

How customer demands are reshaping last-mile delivery

The last mile is seeing disruption from new business models that address customer demand for ever-faster delivery, as well as new technologies such as drones and autonomous ground vehicles.

How fleets of cargo delivery bikes are making the last mile greener

Large and small businesses alike are putting their couriers on bikes to deliver items more quickly — and it's far better for the planet.

Last-mile delivery innovation: Lots of ideas, lots of challenges

Innovations in last-mile delivery continue, but each faces challenges to widespread adoption, although UPS, which will trial Thor electric trucks, encourages fleets to test out new technologies.

How Design is Reimagining Transport in a Clogged World

With our population expanding exponentially, the need to re-think urban transport is crucial and Elon Musk thinks he has the perfect solution.

How Same-Day Shipping Is Clogging U.S. Roads

Nearly all of the theoretical climate and congestion benefits of online shopping are wiped out by rush delivery promises that are common among big retailers, a study finds — and in the midst of a p…

How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains

Self-driving trains could be greener, carry more stuff, and help unclog America’s congested supply chains. And making them a reality will likely be far easier than perfecting autonomous vehicles.

Study: As cars gain autonomy, roads may become more clogged

Driverless cars with and without passengers are projected to more than double the number of miles traveled in the U.S. in the next three decades.

How Trucking Companies Use Telematics to Increase Trucking Safety

As technology has advanced in the transportation industry, there’s a lot of data available that can enhance truckers’ safety all over the world. One recent example is the development of electronic logging devices (ELD) that monitor drivers’ Hours of Service (HOS) compliance. But there are other examples of how technology is improving truck driver safety […]