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8 talks with big ideas for our roadways8 talks with big ideas for our roadways

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

It’s an experience that can inspire road rage in even the calmest person: an urban traffic jam where cars crawl along at a pace of inches per hour.  As Jonas Eliasson, a professor of transportation at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), explains in today’s talk, traffic congestion occurs in almost every major city across […]

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Great Minds Think Alike: Making the morning commute more humaneGreat Minds Think Alike: Making the morning commute more humane

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

A friend recently told me this story: The first time he took his daughter, age 4, on the New York City subway at 9 o’clock in the morning, she anxiously tugged on his sleeve and motioned for him to bend down. She whispered: “Are these people all mad at each other?” New York strap-hangers know […]