Kea Wilson
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Survey Says: E-Scooters Are Great for Riders’ Mental Health
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E-scooters users say they feel an increased sense of emotional well-being after a ride, adding to a mountain of evidence that sustainable transportation may be an overlooked tool in fighting America's mental health crisis.
Report: To Sustain the Cycling Boom, U.S. Must Build Up American Bike Manufacturing
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And as the bike shortages of the Covid-19 pandemic recently revealed, the absence of a robust domestic bike industry can itself become a barrier to getting Americans riding.
Study: Most Drivers Can’t Differentiate AVs and Driver Assistance Tech
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The majority of vehicle owners think that the installation of advanced driver assistance technology qualifies their car as a "fully automated self driving vehicle" — and that over-confidence could cost even more lives.
Study: Drivers Responsible For Way More Ammonia Pollution Than Previously Thought
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Federal and state agencies may be underestimating the amount of dangerous ammonia emissions that cars pump into the atmosphere by as much as a factor of five, a new study finds — and maybe more in urban areas.
STUDY: Transit Agencies Are Planning a Radically Equitable COVID Recovery
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A staggering 88 percent of U.S. transit agencies expect that historically disenfranchised riders will be their primary customers as they recover from the pandemic, a new study finds.
STUDY: Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths Every Year — And Not Just in Crashes
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If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds — and not just in traffic crashes.
Can E-Mopedsharing Help Wean Americans Off Car Ownership?
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Electric moped sharing became one of the most rapidly growing alternatives to driving in cities around the world during 2021 — but America lags behind, mostly because our roads are too dangerous.
Advocates to Biden: There’s a Better Way to Address Rising Gas Prices
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Hint: give people more ways to get around that don't involve burning it.
Wisconsin Car Attack Is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
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Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
Advocates Hope ‘Inspired’ RAISE Grants are a Taste of Things To Come
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The U.S. DOT wowed sustainable transportation advocates with its list of grantees for the RAISE grant program, which will funnel $1 billion dollars to transportation capital and planning projects across America — and stoked optimism for how the agency would spend the historic $100 billion in discretionary funding it just won with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge
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"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."