Cities & Planning

Unless you drive a new Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Land Rover or Lamborghini, you may not be aware that those automakers have embraced a new, easier and more precise way to navigate by voice. All five companies have incorporated or are incorporating what3words technology. To explain, what3words is a company that

Venturi is accelerating the development of electric vehicles and spearheading the vitally important transition towards sustainable mobility.

Climate solutions are never just climate solutions. Climate and social systems are profoundly connected, and those connections open up solutions that are often overlooked.

If the Legislature doesn't intervene, nonprofits and churches won't be able to host weekly farmers markets anymore without losing their tax-exempt status.

SUNY-ESF is the oldest and most distinguished institution in the United States that focuses on the study of the environment.

KulaBio’s Kula-N is a crop agnostic, sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer that helps all farmers improve crop yield and reduce environmental impact.

Drivers and pedestrians in the Netherlands faced injury risks similar to those in the U.S. in 1970. Since then, American streets have become far more dangerous. What happened?

Recently I posted on the importance of frequency mapping in network maps.  Most transit network maps, I argued, show all the transit lines but make it impossible to sort through them to figure out, quickly, which are likely to be useful.  The bottom line:  A map that makes all the lines look equally important is […]

Public transport maps are easy to take for granted but surprisingly difficult to master; conveying a mass of data in one simple design is no easy task. Veteran graphic designer and transit map enthusiast Cameron Booth runs through the dos and don'ts of effective map design.

One thing I often get asked regarding my transit diagrams is how I go about actually creating them. Originally, I just jumped right in and pushed things around on a page in Illustrator until it loo…

After two years at the drawing board, Sound Transit designers devised downtown Seattle stops as deep as 145 feet, virtually unreachable by stairs. Such a plan is exorbitantly expensive but politically easier than fighting for cheaper, shallow routes.

Long-discussed concerns about environmental costs and overall supplies of critical inputs to renewables are finally starting to materialize.

An essay about Spokane, the New West, and its place within it.

A detailed essay about Spokane's regional market influence, lost economic potential, and splintered political interests.

With so much talk of a gondola to connect SFU Burnaby with the SkyTrain system, Seattle is now considering one as well. The promise of an aerial gondola would connect the waterfront, Seattle Center…

The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.

The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.

Beavers, nature's engineers, seem able to dam any stream, building structures with logs and mud that can flood large areas, thus restoring ecosystems and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Seattle has plenty of hills and waterways which makes a subway system attractive in comparison to road-based solutions. But even a subway needs to worry about steep hills and water unless you’re wi…

The Traffic Lab team is launching a new Q&A column to answer readers’ questions about the region’s thorny transportation issues.