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Parking lots: Design of Roads, Streets and Infrastructure
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commercial vehicles companies like Penske, Ryder, U-Haul and more
A collection about the Design of Cities , Roads and Walkable Spaces
A collection of articles and videos looking at the much needed Infrastructure Investment in the USA
Designs and safety in automobiles
a collection of articles and videos about London, England (UK)
A collection of articles and videos about Switzerland, and public transport - trains, trams and busses
Train travel in Spain
a collection of articles and videos about Train travel in Europe
Railway Journeys: Experience Europe through its railways, combining efficiency with panoramic views. Discover the ease of train travel across the continent, from network navigation to optimal rail pass use.
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a collection of articles and videos about Train travel in Europe
a collection of articles and videos about the Panama Canal
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A collection of resources about eVTOLs, exploring the technology behind flying cars and drones. This compilation covers design principles, regulatory challenges, urban air mobility, and safety considerations, providing insights into the future of aerial transportation and its impact on society.
Personal aircraft: Flying Cars, Air Taxis and Passenger Drones
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Article

Electric hydrofoils. Up, up and aweigh - The Economist

“Flying” electric boats could remake urban transport (2026)


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Delivery drones and flying cars. China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off

Airborne packages and people will soon be whizzing through China cities. The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to domi... (2025)


Article

Pivotal: Flying cars. No license necessary

A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale. No pilot’s licence will be necessary to fly the Helix | Science & technology (2023)


Article

Every setback is an opportunity for Ryanair | The Economist

Europe’s biggest airline has once again outmanoeuvred rivals | Business (2023)


Article

Supply chains: What Barbie tells you about near-shoring | The Economist

Supply chains are neither global nor local. They are both | Business (2023)


Article

Road Rage, ‘Zipper Merging’ and a Stress-Free Path Through Traffic - The New York Times

Experts love the zipper merge, but drivers are just as likely to see it as others rudely cutting their turn in line. (2021)


Article

Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Article

This new overnight train to Croatia is already so popular that it's running daily

A new overnight train service that was launched last month between Prague and the Croatian coast is so popular that it will now run every night. (2020)


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13 cities across Europe will be linked with new night train routes

European railway giants have announced a major upgrading of night rail services that will link thirteen cities across the continent. (2020)


Article

How much is Europe spending to boost cycling during COVID-19?

COVID-19 has caused a cycling boom as people use bikes instead of public transport. This is how European governments responded - and which country ... (2020)


Article

Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers - Bloomberg (2020)

The Google sister company is the first to offer a commercial ride-hailing service in cars with empty front seats. (2020)


Article

How to Ship a Vaccine at minus –80°C, and Other Obstacles in the Covid Fight - The New York Times

Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept... (2020)


Article

U.K. Has a Bold New Plan for High-Speed Rail

Faster north-south train service around London could decrease reliance on cars and planes. But northerners say their more dire transportation needs... (2020)


Article

To help England’s north, link it up | Leaders | The Economist (2019)

Public spending on transport in the north is barely half what it is in the south-east. That must change (2019)


Article

Rio's Olympics Line 4 Subway Mess - CityLab

Critics say the $3.1 billion Line 4 project prioritizes access to wealthy neighborhoods, neglecting the rest of the city’s transit needs. (2019)


Article

Want a Better Bus System? Here's Where to Start. - CityLab

Why the Bus Got So Bad, and How to Save It JOHN SURICO OCT 10, 2019 TransitCenter’s Steven Higashide has created a how-to guide to help city... (2019)


Article

What's Behind Lyft's Battle Over Bikeshare Access - CityLab

Why did Lyft block users of a third-party app from accessing New York’s Citi Bike? It’s the start of what could be a fundamental showdown over mobi... (2019)


Article

Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze - FreightWaves

It takes a year of advance planning and up to 10 loads to move a single monster turbine. (2019)


Article

A Political Shift in Madrid May Doom its Car Ban - CityLab 2019

With more conservative leadership moving in after elections, the Spanish capital’s pollution-fighting regulations on private vehicles may be in dan... (2019)


Article

Once Threatened, Europe’s Night Trains Rebound - The New York Times

With growing concern over the environmental impact of flying, sleeper train service, long considered old-fashioned and nostalgic, is picking up ste... (2019)


Article

Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story - CityLab

Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand. (2019)


Article

8 cities are taking space away from cars to cut pollution

Cities around the world are starting to see that they’ll be cleaner, healthier, and just better overall if people–not cars–are the priority. (2019)


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Uber and Lyft are losing money. At some point, we’ll pay for it. - The Washington Post

Customers will be in for a rude shock when the companies start charging us what the rides are actually worth. (2019)


Article

Check Out the Cheaper, Greener Future of France’s High-Speed Trains - CityLab

Take a look at the trains that will modernize France’s rail fleet and prepare the national provider to take on its first-ever competitors. (2019)


Article

New York Needs to Fix the Subway. Here’s How the MTA Could Pay For It.

From congestion pricing to rezoning, there are all kinds of ways to tap New York City’s vast wealth to fund transit improvements. (2019)


Article

Ford Buying San Francisco-Area e-Scooter Startup Spin - The New York Times

Ford Motor Co said Thursday it will join the mushrooming micro-mobility movement with the acquisition of 2-year-old Spin, an electric scooter renta... (2018)


Article

Where Chicago Trounces New York: Fixing Mass Transit - The New York Times

Chicago’s subway has also been plagued by crumbling tracks, antiquated signals and unreliable trains. Here is how it turned around. (2018)


Article

France Plans Congestion Pricing for Big Cities - CityLab

A new bill would let cities charge drivers for using the road. Will local governments jump at the chance? (2018)


Article

Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S. - CityLab

The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succe... (2018)


Article

How a Kids' Scooter Became a Micro-Mobility Revolution - CityLab

Two decades ago, a Swiss inventor laid the foundation for the big mobility innovation of 2018. (2018)


Video

eVTOLs: The $190K ‘Flying Car’ That Doesn’t Require a Pilot’s License | WSJ Tech Behind

Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts, or eVTOLs, promise a futuristic vision of the world. One company, Pivotal, is taking a different a... (2025)


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Mexico’s $7.5B Gamble to Disrupt the Panama Canal | WSJ Breaking Ground

Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)


Video

The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel

Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. (2023)


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The $11B Tunnel That Could Save One of Europe’s Busiest Mountain Corridors | WSJ Breaking Ground

Nestled under the Alps and the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Base Tunnel is poised to be the longest underground railway connection in the w... (2023)


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Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery Strategy: How Much Faster Can It Go? | WSJ Shipping Wars

Amazon is the king of fast delivery – it pioneered the free two-day shipping model customers have come to expect. As competitors like Walmart and T... (2023)


Video

Mumbai, India's Transforming MEGACITY

Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)


Video

Panama Canal: Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ

The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)


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Modern Marvels: The Construction of the Panama Canal (S1, E3) | Full Episode | History

Love Modern Marvels? Stay up to date on all of your favorite History shows at https://history.com/schedule.Chronicles one of the most incredible en... (2023)


Video

How to use the Eurail Pass App: Tips I wish I knew (Interrail 2023 Guide)

I am just back from 4 months backpacking Europe, on my trip I used the Eurail/Interrail Pass App to get around. The more you use the app the more y... (2023)


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Eurail Pass Explained: Everything You Need to Know | PLUS TIPS

Let's break down everything you need to know about How to Use a Eurail Pass when traveling Europe! From prices, to tips...we cover it all! Subscrib... (2023)


Video

Why 70% of Spain is Empty

Why 70% of Spain is Empty (2022)


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Amtrack - Why Train Tickets Cost So Much In America

Taking a train in the U.S. is often more expensive than flying and more expensive than intercity train systems in other developed countries, which ... (2022)


Video

Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like Planes

Sign up for the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle for just $14.79 a *year* to watch Extremities right when it comes out on August 4th: http://Curiosity... (2022)


Video

Self driving is here. But not like you thought.

There are two near futures for self driving cars... I’ll admit it. I’d gotten cynical about self driving cars. It feels like every 3 years, we’r... (2022)


Video

How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)


Video

Why the Hype Around Hypersonics?

Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here:https://try.magellantv.com/sabinehossenfelder. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free ... (2021)


Video

Is the Hyperloop just Hype?

Check out the math & physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ ... (2021)


Video

The Person Who Cut You Off In Traffic Is Right - Cheddar Explains

Merging is every driver's nightmare. Numerous studies have shown that the zipper merge is the most efficient way for drivers to merge and ensure le... (2021)


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Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? - Alex Gendler

Why aren’t commercial flights getting faster? Dig into the technological and environmental problems facing supersonic flight. --In 1996, a British ... (2021)


Video

Kitty Hawk's Heaviside: an ultra-quiet electric flying machine

Kitty Hawk's 'Heaviside' is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine (2021)


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Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)


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How Did New York's Trains Get so Bad? | NYT

New York City subways have the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world. This is the story of how the city ended up... (2019)


Video

Supersonic air travel is finally coming back

Supersonic air travel is back. 15 years after the Concorde was grounded, everyone from aerospace companies to NASA to small startups is working to ... (2018)


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How streets, roads, and avenues are different - Vox

Vox Published on Nov 14, 2016 There's a method to the madness of classifying roads. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more..... (2018)


Video

How highways wrecked American cities

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nat... (2018)


Video

Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)


Video

What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj | TED

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)


Podcast

America's Truck Driver Crisis Is Complicated - 1A | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 1A on Spotify. Truck driving in America remains in crisis. There are 80,000 fewer drivers on the road than needed, acco... (2022)


Podcast

Can Global Shipping Go Zero Carbon? : NPR

A lot of the stuff we buy in the U.S. comes by ship — ships that use a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping company says it wants to... (2019)


Podcast

Flying cars: (podcast) “Free as a bird”, an episode from The Economist on Spotify

Travellers have long dreamed of soaring above traffic jams. Those dreams may come true, in the form of passenger-carrying drones. We look at the co... (2018)


Podcast

Airships and the Future that Never Was - 99% Invisible

They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)


Podcast

Built for Speed - 99% Invisible

I want you to conjure an image in your mind of the white stripes that divide the lanes of traffic going the same direction on a major highway. How ... (2017)


Podcast

The Nut Behind the Wheel - 99% Invisible

In the past fifty years, the car crash death rate has dropped by nearly 80 percent in the United States. And one of the reasons for that drop has t... (2017)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains - Andreessen Horowitz

Container ships, supply chains, and retail This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our eve... (2017)


Podcast

VCs Are Wrong About Bootstrapped Founders, How Content Can Be Used As A Key Customer Acquisition Tool

Jesse Genet is Founder & CEO @ Lumi, the startup that has raised close to $10m from Homebrew, Forerunner, Spark Capital, Lowercase and more. (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: All about Bike Sharing – Andreessen Horowitz

This episode of the a16z Podcast — including city of Dallas councilmember Lee Kleinman, chairman of their Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and S... (2018)


Book

The Old Patagonian Express

The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Startin... (2014)


Book

The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)


Website

Flight Connections - all flight routes worldwide

FlightConnections.com provides an overview of all flight routes worldwide. Find scheduled flights from all airports in the world. Discover airline ... (2026)


Website

Shippo API

Powerful Shipping API Built For Your Needs. Learn more about our shipping API and how to connect to Shippo to accommodate your shipping needs an... (2020)


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