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What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
We’ll need to learn the lessons from this disaster.
Your skin heals from cuts and scrapes on its own − what if concrete could do that too?
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
Hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers across the US and Canada treat sick and injured animals and birds. Digitizing their records is yielding valuable data on human-wildlife encounters.
Increasing awareness of the dangers ‘forever chemical’ road salts pose to our fresh water systems highlights the urgent importance of finding new approaches to de-icing our roads.
There is no data to speak categorically on whether concrete pavement is better than flexible pavement for Nigeria.
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
Transport development paved the way for colonization and is directly linked to the chronic and extreme social inequities Indigenous communities continue to face to this day.
The Welsh government wants to make residential roads safer and quieter but not everybody agrees with dropping the speed limit from 30mph to 20mph.
Today, as in the past, pro-car sentiment is a backlash against nascent environmental protest.
The largest ever giraffe tracking study shows how these massive animals are responding to human pressures across many different habitats throughout Africa.
The National Party’s transport policy risks locking the country into a car-dependent, high-carbon future.
The city of Accra has no plan to tackle pedestrians’ behaviour.
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Nigeria’s National Assembly must not shirk its oversight responsibilities, focusing on four priorities will be a good place to start.
Transportation agencies plan for events like major bridge or highway collapses, but these events can disrupt traffic for months and affect residential neighborhoods as well as motorists.
Infrastructure that links mines to ports isn’t enough – it needs to be accompanied by policies that encourage productive investment in factories.
The 2023 federal budget provides funding for critical infrastructure and clean energy. But long-term planning is needed to fix chronic problems.
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor in Transport and Logistics Network Modelling, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Infrastructure Management, University of Sydney
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Honorary Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Canberra
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
