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Alaska is warming faster than any other U.S. state, and that’s causing problems, a team of bridge engineers and social scientists explains. The infrastructure bill in Congress would offer some help.
Short fixes won’t last.
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.
Scientists are urging the Biden administration to protect mature US forests as a climate change strategy, starting with the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.
Sat-navs could one day warn motorists when they drive through high-risk areas.
Government investment in roads, railroads and other public services has always involved social programming, both for good and for ill.
Governments must ensure that transport infrastructure is developed with the ability to cope with current and future climatic shifts.
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.
One more lane won’t fix Britain’s congested motorways.
With adaptive design, infrastructure is ready to be expanded in the future. It’s working for the Dutch.
For Nigeria to feed its growing population efficiently and support food production by small farm holders, investment in rural infrastructure is key.
The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to climate change, but efforts to tackle it risk alienating the people who live there.
A recent US study found tyre chemicals were polluting rivers and poisoning migratory salmon.
Millions of miles of fences crisscross the Earth’s surface. They divide ecosystems and affect wild species in ways that often are harmful, but are virtually unstudied.
For every kilometre of road in Europe, you’re likely to find one dead hedgehog.
A review of all public road and rail projects worth $20 million or more and completed since 2001 reveals a 21% cost overrun. Worryingly, costs of bigger projects blew out more often and by more.
Roads and traffic are causing massive mortality of wild animals worldwide and the road network is rapidly expanding. Can the wildlife death toll be stopped?
Irish trade with the EU contributes an additional 34 tonnes of toxic nitrogen oxides to air in the UK each year.
Top contributors
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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 of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor in Transport and Logistics Network Modelling, University of Sydney
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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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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Canberra
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Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Transport Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
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Sêr Cymru Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Michigan
