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Webinar: Karen Firehock and Strategic Green Infrastructure Planning

Karen E. Firehock, MUEP, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture discusses her landmark publication, Strategic Green Infrastructure Planning: A Multi-Scale Approach. Professor Firehock shares how both transportation planning and design needs to encompass green infrastructure practices.

Letting Buses Compete

By Jeffrey Kenworthy, Matthew Bradley / On July 18th, 2016

For years now cities worldwide have been talking about policies to reduce car use, especially in peak periods. These policies have proven about as popular with politicians and the general population as a cold shower in winter or a frontal lobotomy.

What happens when disaster strikes during gridlock?

By Laurie Mazur / On January 13th, 2016

I was late for an appointment, sitting in traffic on one of the major arteries out of Washington DC. It was miserable, barely moving traffic of the kind that makes you whimper with frustration as yet another green light turns yellow, then red, as you inch along

Reid Ewing on How Better Traffic Models Can Lead to More Mixed-Use Development

By Admin / On June 14th, 2013

Reid Ewing, author of the forthcoming book, Measuring Urban Design, talks to Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog. Here’s another obscure but significant obstacle to building walkable places in America: the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ shoddy traffic generation models for mixed-use development.

Jan Gehl, Danish Urban Planning Guru vs Moscow

By Admin / On October 10th, 2012

Jan Gehl, author of the popular book Cities for People, talks about cars and traffic in Moscow in a