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What Do Cheap Cars Mean for India’s Cities?
October 17, 2007 – 12:49 pm | 6 Comments

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An Indian street scene. Photo by Satbir from Flickr.
Last week the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune ran a story on the new Tata Car priced at $2,500 coming out in India …

The Hidden Costs of Personal Mobility
October 16, 2007 – 11:35 am | One Comment

The Hidden Costs of Personal Mobility

A biker struck by a car in Beijing. Courtesy of pmorgan of Flickr.
It’s helpful to think about traffic safety with the following thought experiment: What would happen in a democratic forum, if the world’s …

How to Debunk the Junk
June 7, 2007 – 2:26 pm | 2 Comments

How to Debunk the Junk

Bigger isn’t always better. Photo by powebooktrance.
Recently CNW Marketing Research, an Oregon-based automotive research group, published a paper making the audacious claim that the Hummer is actually more energy efficient than the Prius. …

The Four Hour Commute
June 5, 2007 – 9:03 am | One Comment

The Four Hour Commute

Photo from the Washington Post.
On Sunday, The Washington Post Magazine ran a cover story describing the transport woes Washington DC-area residents face as they move further and further outside the suburbs in order to …

More Highways, Less Traffic?
May 17, 2007 – 9:10 am | No Comment

More Highways, Less Traffic?

Photo by Justin Ulmer. Published in JPG Magazine.
Is building roads good for the environment? The European Road Federation seems to think so, arguing in a recent paper that, “More investment in road infrastructure is …

Congestion Pricing for New York City?
April 19, 2007 – 10:52 pm | One Comment

Congestion Pricing for New York City?

A more peaceful New York? Photo from http://wwp.new-york-usa.com/

The New York Times reports today that Mayor Bloomberg will announce on Sunday an ambitious proposal to give New York City a much needed face lift. …

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 …