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What We’re Thinking: Stories Archive

  • Texas Needs to Consider New Ways to Fund Its Highways
  • Supply Chain Woes Are the Grinch’s Best Helpers This Year
  • Storm Resiliency a Pay-Now Or Pay-Later Proposition
  • Does Your Teen Text While Driving? Now There’s An App For That.
  • Pandemic Showed Traffic Can Be Cut Without New Roads
  • U.S. Roads Meant to Last Decades – But Not Forever
  • Viral Spread Magnified at US-Mexico Gateways
  • Will Our Transportation System Support a Post-COVID World?
  • America Without Railroads? Yes, That Almost Happened.
  • FCC Radio Spectrum Reallocation Could Impair Vehicle Safety
  • Data From High-Tech Cars Can Help Pinpoint Road Safety Improvements and Prevent Crashes
  • Federal Road Funding Nearly Expired — Let’s Focus Before the Next Deadline
  • COVID-19 Spotlights Patient Transport Delays At the Border, But We Can Slash Wait Times
  • Our Streets May Never Be the Same. And That’s a Good Thing.
  • It Turns Out, Humans Are Pretty Smart: Developing Self-Driving Cars Is Harder Than We Thought
  • For Post-COVID Transportation, We Really Can’t Settle for “Normal”
  • Post-COVID Transportation Planning Demands the Right Data, Not Guesswork
  • Teleworking – The New Normal?
  • Truck Drivers Are Essential Workers, Too
  • The Paradox of Public Transit in a Pandemic
  • How Tech Can Untangle and Transform Campus Traffic
  • Car Crashes Are Down. Working From Home Keeps Us Safe On the Road
  • Coronavirus is Forcing Americans to Develop Work-From-Home Habits That Could Benefit Us For a Long Time
  • If Coronavirus Hits the U.S. Hard, Expect Public Transportation To Be Afflicted
  • When You Ride Uber or Lyft With Your kids, Do You Use Car Seats? You Should
  • Don’t Be Fooled; Same-Day Delivery Isn’t Really Free
  • Texas Cannot Pave Its Way Out of Traffic Problems
  • Shared Mopeds Off to a Good Start in Austin, TX, Unlike Ride-Hailing and E-Scooters
  • We Know Where You Travel Every Day, But We Don’t Really Care Who You Are
  • Our Concept of Mobility is Transforming — But 3 Roadway Realities Are Unchanged
  • Safer Roads or Faster Movie Downloads? Let’s Choose Wisely
  • Is That Road Made of Recycled Asphalt? If it’s Done Right, You Will Never Know
  • Texans Texting Behind the Wheel: What’s the Answer When Wrong is Not Enough?
  • The Biggest Questions Facing E-Scooters
  • Death-By-Walking is Becoming a Chronic Public Health Issue
  • Sharing the Streets With Robots in Training is Worth the Bother
  • As Cars Get Better, Driving Gets Worse
  • Self-Driving Cars: Let’s Master Walking Before We Try to Run
  • Oil Exports Top Imports For the First Time, Adding to Texas Transportation Challenges
  • Connected Automated Travel: As Complicated as 1, 2, 3
  • Why Maintaining a Lone Desert Highway Matters to Us All
  • Rural Texas Highways Give Us a Reliable Path to the Pump
  • Fresh Approach Needed to Reduce Teen Car Fatalities
  • The Risks and Benefits of Driverless Vehicles Already on Texas Roads
  • A Lesson in Economics, Featuring Seaports and Your Stuff
  • How traffic jams at the U.S.-Mexico border ripple through the economy (Dallas News website)
  • Uber and Lyft are Snatching Passengers From Public Transportation
  • Finding a Better Way to Reason With Hurricane Season
  • It’s High Time For a Discussion on Infrastructure
  • Even Self-Driving Cars Need Driver Education
  • The Lifesaving Difference Between Connected Cars vs. Self-Driving Cars
  • You Don’t Have To Be In a Wreck To Be a Traffic Casualty
  • Roadway Deaths are Rising, and Self-driving Cars Don’t Yet Make a Difference
  • Driving High vs. Driving Drunk: We Still Have a Lot to Learn
  • We Need Automatic Braking on Trains, but It’s Going to Take a Lot of Hard Work
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