Building infrastructure takes time. To develop sustainable transportation, Canada needs to invest in high-quality infrastructure that will enable us to make environmentally friendly travel choices.
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Even in cities with good public transportation, some areas can be 'transit deserts,' where demand exceeds supply. Living in these zones makes it hard to access good jobs, health care and other services.
Subways seem like the perfect solution to improve air quality in cities. But what about air quality underground?
The St Petersburg attack shows how engineering and psychology can help optimise how people are evacuated in a disaster.
How did urban public transport in America, like much of our infrastructure, get to be in such bad shape? Will millennials help turn it around?
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Senior Lecturer in Evacuation Modelling, Lund University
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Senior Lecturer, Lund University
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Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Director, Urban Information Lab, University of Texas at Austin
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Tenured Scientist, CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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Director of the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Instituto de Diagnóstico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA - CSIC)
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Masters of Community and Regional Planning Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of International Business, Ivey Business School, Western University
