An economist might say that the optimal number of traffic fatalities depends on the cost of preventing them. Sweden disagrees. Compared to most other countries, Sweden’s road safety is tops: In …
The Behavioral Nudges That Our Trains and Planes Give Us
The best designed railway stations and airports have behavioral nudges that travelers don’t even know they are following.…
What You Never Expected To Hear About a Traffic Jam
Since billions have been proposed for infrastructure spending, we should consider some surprising suggestions from researchers on traffic congestion.…
Deciding If Taxes Make You Move
Seeing people leave New Jersey, New York, and Illinois, we can start to ask if interstate migration is caused by high taxes.…
What Flying Really Costs
To calculate the real cost of flying, to the fares and the fees, we need to add the time, aggravation and inconvenience created by poor airport design.…
Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision
It appears that Elon Musk’s year-old Boring Company has tunnel vision. The firm has proposed a high-tech tunnel between NYC and Washington D.C. that got a verbal okay from the White House: Where…
Why the Panama Canal is Bigger and Better
Enabling the newest massive container ships to travel to the East Coast, the Panama Canal expansion changed the world’s transportation infrastructure.…
The Cost of Commuting
Average one-way daily commuting time in the U.S. was 26 minutes and 36 seconds during 2016. As a benchmark though, those 26 1/2 (or so) minutes say a lot more. How Long We Commute Comparing the averag…
Infrastructure’s Hiding Hand
When politicians plan to update our transportation infrastructure, they are influenced by a hidden hand that can be benevolent or malevolent.…
Throwback Thursday: Sending Tanks (and Thanks) to a Canal
As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.…