New travel patterns driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and remote and hybrid work are forcing transit agencies to reconsider their planning and operations, transportation officials said at the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting.

The surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic can’t be completely explained by quarantine-emptied roads that made speeding easy — and new data on who, exactly, was involved in…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parklets have been deployed onto kerbside carparking spaces throughout Melbourne, Australia, by street-fronting hospitality businesses, to provide socially-dista...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way Americans spend their time. One of the most enduring shifts has occurred in the workplace, with millions of employees making the switch to work from home. Even as the pandemic has waned, more than 15 percent of full-time employees remain fully remote and an additional 30 percent work in hybrid arrangements (Barrero, Bloom, and Davis). These changes have substantially reduced time spent commuting to work; in the aggregate, Americans now spend 60 million fewer hours traveling to work each day. In this post, we investigate how people spend this saved time on other activities. Using detailed data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we find that employed individuals allocate their saved commute time toward leisure activities and sleeping, while reducing overall work hours.

Cities are debating the use of acres of urban land as parking after the pandemic shone new light on how those spaces can be used in a more creative and valuable way

Some cities are making permanent changes to discourage driving.

Since the pandemic hit, car ownership has soared, stoking tensions over parking spots. Advocacy groups for mass transit don’t have much sympathy.

Many towns and cities have reallocated street space in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was done to allow more social distancing for physical activity and to provide space for restaurants to...

Cities like Los Angeles worked fast during the COVID-19 pandemic to radically change the way we think about sidewalks, curbs and parking areas. Many of the changes government and businesses made are here to stay.

By John Bela, ASLA On a clear fall day in 2005, a group of friends and collaborators from the art collective Rebar commandeered an 8-foot-wide by 20-foot-long metered parking space in downtown San …

By early 2020, San Francisco had created 70 parklets in every corner of the city, and the city’s parklet program had become a model around the world.

Parklets that became commonplace during the pandemic could become permanent fixtures on revitalized Main Streets across the state.

Rush hours are fading, use of commuter transit is sinking and even freeways are evolving.

The pandemic undermined the economic model that supports the urban centers of most U.S. cities. POLITICO brought together mayors and city leaders from around the country to figure out what’s next, and how to get there.

Outdoor dining and slow streets programs are chipping away at Southern California’s deference to cars.

COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

The Pleasantville Village Board has enlisted BFJ Planning to explore downtown parking regulations and ways to improve it as the village experiences a sharp drop in parking permit & meter revenue.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...

The report reveals increased personal car use has continued on a distressingly steep rise, even while foot traffic and office building occupancy remained on par or below March levels.

Yelp data shows greater consumer interest at restaurants on pedestrian-friendly “slow streets" that limited vehicle traffic during the pandemic.

As a popular dining destination faces city orders to rebuild a costly outdoor dining setup, advocates call for a clearer plan for opening up streets.

Communities shouldn’t give back the street space that they reclaimed during the pandemic.

ASU students and creative professionals collaborated on a "sensory experience" that opens on April 9.

The $3.6 billion spending plan for the city of Baltimore accounts for “historic lows” in revenue from parking, hotel taxes and the Baltimore Convention Center, sectors that have been decimated by the pandemic.

COVID-19 has underscored the value of parks and public spaces. A new survey shows that U.S. mayors have gotten the message, but post-pandemic plans for public spaces remain largely undefined.

The Menino Survey of Mayors found that although leaders predict residents will spend more time outside, only 6% of mayors plan to keep recent changes to those spaces like closed roads and new bike lanes.

Many people working from home or out of a job can’t access the hundreds of dollars deducted from their paychecks for transit expenses. “I’m unhappy because it’s a lot of money,” one woman said.

New parking program put in place to help city recoup COVID-19 related revenue loss