Thinking Transportation: Engaging Conversations about Transportation Innovations
Episodes
What We Think, We Become: How traffic safety knowledge influences driver behavior.
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever occupies our thoughts can influence our performance on the road. In this episode, Senior Research Scientist Katie Womack takes a close look a...
When Captives Become Cargo: How transportation professionals can disrupt human trafficking.
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An efficient transportation network is central to the success of any commercial enterprise, including those that aren’t legal. Our roads and bridges...
There’s Danger Afoot: Death by walking remains a chronic roadway safety issue.
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cars and pedestrians have been sharing space on city streets for more than a century, and traveling on foot remains as dangerous as it’s ever been...
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: COVID-19 made traffic congestion disappear, but not for long.
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
America’s worst public health crisis in a century gave us a short-lived gridlock hiatus, as TTI Research Fellow Tim Lomax explains. The pandemic als...
Shaking Up the System: Using disruptive technologies to create safer roads.
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Roadway safety today is about much more than traffic laws, warning signs, and guardrails. TTI Senior Research Scientist Sue Chrysler illustrates how t...
Half the Wheels and Eight Times the Danger: Roadways are safer these days, unless you ride a motorcycle.
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Passenger vehicle fatalities in the United States have declined recently, but not motorcyclist deaths, which total about 5,000 each year. Some reasons...
Hey, Where’s My Amazon Order? Promises of super-fast delivery are straining our transportation system.
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic and a record-setting holiday shopping season made 2020 a year like no other for the freight and delivery industry. TTI Senior Research En...
Ante Up. Are all road users paying their fair share?
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not all classes of vehicles are created equal, because they aren’t charged uniformly for how they use our transportation network. Associate Research...
May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor. Celebrating 20 years of improved young driver safety.
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Car crashes have long been the leading cause of serious injury for people under age 25 in America, and in most years the top cause of death for teenag...
Good News, Bad News. A better grade for America’s infrastructure, but still no bragging rights.
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
American roads and bridges get us to where we live, learn, work, shop, and play. And that network has needed repair for a while, now. TTI experts Edit...
Policy, Priorities, and Possibilities. What might we see from new leadership at USDOT?
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential administrations and their appointees come and go, but USDOT’s mobility mission remains constant. Challenges span a wide spectrum from y...
Promises, Promises. Turns out, building a self-driving car is a lot harder than we thought.
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to be more widely available by now, but they’re not. So, what happened? Those cars have to learn how to do more th...
Does the Road Go On Forever? We can’t just pave our way out of traffic congestion.
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our 2020 experience taught us we can reduce roadway gridlock drastically in the face of a public health crisis, by reducing the demand for road space....
Whoa, That Was Close! Can we prevent crashes from happening by studying the ones that almost happened?
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly all new vehicles have some degree of self-driving capability and internet connectivity. Every time one of those cars corrects a lane-departing ...