Costs quickly rise when things go wrong with roads, roofs and power lines. Many of those risks are also avoidable.
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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.
Long-haul truckers often work grueling schedules with few breaks and face pressures that place their safety and that of others at risk.
Everyone likes getting something for nothing, but history shows why the math behind free public transit doesn’t add up.
Native plants help damaged landscapes by stabilizing soil, fighting invasive species and sheltering pollinators. Two horticulture experts explain what they’re doing to help develop new seed sources.
High-quality bus service is the fastest route to rapid, comprehensive public transit in the United States. This country was once a leader in bus transit, and with adequate funding, it could be again.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking into new rules for trains. Trucks, however, are involved in thousands more hazmat incidents every year in the US.
A study of displayed road signs in Texas shows that, surprisingly, safety messages may actually make roads less safe.
Mobility justice — the right to access spaces and means of movement — means that transportation planning should address marginalization.
Consumers are feeling pain at the pump and demanding solutions. Some politicians are pushing gasoline tax waivers – but that means less money to fix roads, and often not much economic relief.
The Ontario government has, under Doug Ford, revised policies and approaches in favour of developers. Policy reform is essential to address the growing problem of unaffordable housing.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals.
Dusk is a dangerous time of day for hitting wildlife on the road, and the one-hour time change means more drivers are out while deer are at their most active and visibility is dropping.
Avoiding hitting deer on the road is as much about when you drive as where. An animal behavior expert explains why.
Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.
The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Government investment in roads, railroads and other public services has always involved social programming, both for good and for ill.
The pandemic offered a tantalizing look at city life with fewer cars in the picture. But with traffic rebounding, there’s limited time to lock in policies that make streets more people-friendly.
An infrastructure boom threatens endangered tigers across Asia. Scientists want to know more about how tigers behave near roads so they can design wildlife-friendly transportation networks.
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Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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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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Professor of Biology, Clarkson University
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Professor of American History, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Michigan
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, Queen's University, Ontario
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Researcher in Sustainable Transportation, Carleton University
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Principal Scientist, Agroecology Policy and Advocacy, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems, University of Manchester
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