The average UK commuter spends about 1.5 hours a day at the wheel. While not great for stress levels in general, there are other ways that the daily churn through traffic can negatively affect health…
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Road safety is a seriously important public policy issue. Around 1.3 million people die in road crashes around the world each year. Among teenagers and young adults, road crashes are the number-one cause…
Popular conceptions of government tend to derive from media representations of politicians in action, political speeches, yesterday in parliament, elections, scandal, controversy and so on. And the politics…
Breathing in air pollution at a lower rate that prescribed EU limits for prolonged periods of time increases your risk of lung cancer, according to a new study published in the Lancet Oncology. The study…
Mathematics may not be the first thing your mind turns to when you are caught in a traffic jam. Yet mathematics holds the key to understanding how traffic congestion develops, and how to prevent it. Perhaps…
The hip pocket must be where road pricing reform commences. The call for a congestion charge is getting louder and more frequent in many countries, as major metropolitan areas experience increasing levels…
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor in Infrastructure Management, University of Sydney
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Associate Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
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PhD Candidate in Road Ecology, Nottingham Trent University
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Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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