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Study: People Who Bike to Work Live Longer Than People Who Drive
A robust study of British workers found that people who commute by bike are less likely to die from heart disease, cancer, and other causes.
May 3, 2018
Trip Data Deflates the Dockless Bike-Share Hype
Dockless bike-share services carried just 4 percent of all American bike-share trips in 2017, according to estimates from NACTO, despite accounting for 44 percent of the nation's total bike-share fleet.
May 2, 2018
Hit-and-Run Deaths Are Skyrocketing, and Pedestrians and Cyclists Bear the Brunt
Hit-and-run drivers killed more than 2,000 people in the U.S. in 2016, an increase of 60 percent since 2009.
May 1, 2018
An Hourly Fee on Cabs and Ubers Is Less Radical Than It Appears
Transportation analyst Bruce Schaller recommends charging for-hire vehicles between $5 and $50 per hour within the Manhattan taxi zone.
March 7, 2018
How America’s Bike Helmet Fixation Upholds a Culture of “Unfettered Automobility”
By almost any quantifiable safety metric, the helmet fixation has failed. People bike at low rates in the U.S. compared to international peers, and suffer higher injury and fatality rates per mile of cycling.
February 14, 2018
Schaller: Curbing Uber “Idle Time” Key to Busting Manhattan Gridlock
A report published today by taxi savant Bruce Schaller pins Manhattan's current traffic meltdown squarely on the relentless growth in Uber, Lyft, and other app-based for-hire vehicles.
December 21, 2017
Bus Lanes Are the New Parking Lanes
American cities are getting smarter about using curb space to prioritize transit, biking, and walking.
November 21, 2017
The Persistent Racial Disparities of Motor Vehicle Pollution
While tailpipe emissions have been lowered across the board, racial disparities persist in exposure to fine particles from motor vehicles.
October 17, 2017
Uber and Lyft Are Cannibalizing Transit in Major American Cities
New research from UC Davis shows that cities must strengthen transit in response to the growth of ride-hailing services.
October 13, 2017
America Spends $7.3 Billion a Year Paying Affluent People to Drive to Work
Every day, the streets of American cities are more clogged and polluted at rush hour because the federal government pays people to drive to work.
September 14, 2017
