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Cheap Cars, More Traffic
April 19, 2007 – 9:52 am | 2 Comments

Cheap Cars, More Traffic

Residents in Taiwan snarled in traffic.
The latest edition of Business Week includes an article about car companies using ultra-efficient business models to produce super cheap cars that are affordable to the masses in the developing …

Inventors of the World, Unite!
April 4, 2007 – 10:03 am | No Comment

Inventors of the World, Unite!

Photo from xprize.org.
Earlier this week, Nick Bunkley of the New York Times reported that the X Prize Foundation is sponsoring a competition with an expected prize of $10 million to produce a car that travels …

A Sustainable Parking Garage? Only in LA
March 30, 2007 – 11:58 am | One Comment

A Sustainable Parking Garage? Only in LA

A friend of mine who lived in Los Angeles once told me that on bad days the city felt like one large parking lot. These days things have improved…slightly. That’s because LA now …

Clean Green Cars
March 26, 2007 – 11:27 am | No Comment

Clean Green Cars

Last week, our friends over at autobloggreen wrote about a new website launched in Britain which aims to provide consumers with environmental information about automobiles. The site, Clean Green Cars, markets itself as “a …

Cleaning Up the Streets
March 22, 2007 – 11:43 am | No Comment

Cleaning Up the Streets

The above graphic illustrates how the highest concentrations of carbon monoxide and ultra-fine particles occur at the center of roads. As the graphic shows, the further you move from the road, the lower your …

Transportation and Socioeconomic Class
January 23, 2007 – 3:14 pm | No Comment

During EMBARQ’s Sunday session at the Transportation Review Board’s annual meeting I noticed that one of the day’s ongoing discussion topics dealt with the relationship between transportation policy and class politics. Transportation policy affects all …