I posted a few weeks ago about an discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher where Chris Matthews was arguing with a "Amtrak does nothing...

What comes to mind when someone says that light rail, streetcars, or BRT will bring economic development? My first guess is that people im...

I was interested to see former Texas State Rep Mike Krusee talking about the subsidization of roads and others at the CNU Transportation Ne...

Ryan dug up a paper by Baum Snow that was reblogged by Matt Y. While the numbers are interesting in themselves, the swing was most dramat...

The mean green of UNT have done another study looking at the economic effects of constructing light rail in the Dallas region. The study s...

On a discussion of the issues that bike tourism brings to the town of Sausalito just North of San Francisco. Noting that the bike tourists ...

So says Ed Glaeser . He states that because of the temperate climate, more people should live in density in California cities to increase e...

We've seen numerous stories about Dubai, a city that is rapidly losing people as they jump ship or man made sand island but what about A...

Maybe keeping Larry Summers busy with cars will keep him from messing with transit.

A number of recent blog posts as well as Peter DeFazio in an interview with Rachel Maddow have pointed blame for the reduction in rail fu...

I don't remember posting this when it popped up, but its something I remember a classmate discussing in grad school and I just found it...

Chris Leinberger is hopping on the urban train so to speak. Brad Plummer's post over at TNR's The Vine has already gotten some cov...

Seems he won some Nobel Prize . From Nobel : Economies of scale combined with reduced transport costs also help to explain why an increa...