The Finnish capital Helsinki went a whole year without a traffic fatality. Data-driven city planning helped.
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Gothenburg's experience with congestion pricing has been notably less triumphant – a cautionary tale about tolling downtown drivers
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The most ingenious hawk in New Jersey
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New Jersey hawk develops clever hunting strategy using traffic signals
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Scrapped policy to charge London’s drivers by the mile
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Traffic will never be fixed here: The benefits of the diverging diamond, and why it's still not enough to fix traffic
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul to relaunch congestion pricing with $9 base toll, sources say
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The traffic model deceit: how US highway agencies manipulate data to justify wasteful expansion
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Chicago built 50+ miles of new bike lanes, increasing cyclists by 119% and dramatically reducing fatal collisions
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Why not ban left turns on busy streets?
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The case for New York City's congestion pricing
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Stockholm is in a race to fix its traffic congestion – but will this $4bn super-deep road tunnel under the Swedish capital work
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More lanes are (still) a bad thing
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In a win for the climate (and safety), urban US speed limits are dropping
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Amsterdam to cut speed limits 40% to improve road safety
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Who gets peace and quiet?: The dangers of urban noise
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Intelligent traffic control with smart speed bumps
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Dear drivers, steady as you go at 20mph. And welcome to the future.
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'We are really struggling with space': Amsterdam pushes more cars off its streets but is it enough?
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Here’s what it takes to get speed humps approved on just one US block
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The insane ways traffic engineers try to make streets "safe" for walking
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Widening US highways doesn't fix traffic. So why do we keep doing it?
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Drought-hit Panama Canal to restrict access for one year
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Cruise driverless cars, Outside Lands festival crowds compete for cell service and create traffic mess in San Francisco
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Drought causes 154-ship traffic jam at the Panama Canal
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One car per green: Why the lights on US freeway onramps can’t end traffic jams
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The bewildering architecture of skybridges
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Meet the guerrilla bike activists in Chicago installing bootleg infrastructure for safer streets
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Bergen is gearing up to open the world's longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel – 2.9km tunnel takes 30-45 minutes to walk through
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Halting way to the right road – Dagen H is the day Sweden switched to driving on the right in 1967
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Today, Brussels breaks up with the car
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Why the concept of induced demand is a hard sell
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Elon Musk’s ‘Vegas Loop’ called a ‘death trap’ as Las Vegas traffic piles up
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How one little boat (and me) held up miles of London traffic at Tower Bridge
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The spring paradox
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How did traffic law come to be?
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Microsimulation of traffic control: Onramp
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution
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Major fire at Stavanger airport on Norway's west coast destroyed hundreds of cars, grounded air traffic and led to the evacuation of the facilities
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Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
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There are now traffic cameras that can spot you using your phone while driving
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Flight shame could halve growth in air traffic – Swedish concept of 'flygskam' appears to be spreading
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Tractor trails of protesting Dutch farmers snarl traffic for hundreds of miles
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Car boom brings gridlock misery to ‘green and happy’ Bhutan
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Blasting work has started in Bergen on building the longest bicycle and pedestrian tunnel in the world
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The loneliness problem in LA starts with traffic. Could it end with a walk?
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In car-choked Brussels, the pedestrians are winning
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A modest proposal to eliminate 11,000 urban parking spots
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How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day
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