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A Global Interstate
The Federal Highway Administration, founded as it exists today in 1966, is part of the Department of Transportation. The FHWA helps state and local authorities “with the design, construction, and...
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US Interstate: Horses to Horsepower
Wild Horses, U.S. Bureau of Land Management More than 17 million horses shared American roads with 23,000 cars in 1903. Five years later, Henry Ford rolled the Model T off the production line in...
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A River (of Green) Runs Through It: Boston’s Central Artery
Boston’s Greenway. Image courtesy Wikipedia Commons. Greenways, like the Rose Kennedy Greenway, jewel of the Central Artery in Boston, Massachusetts, offer economic, artistic and public health...
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Horseless Carriages to Driverless Cars
Driverless Cars. Image with appreciation to Stanford University at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/. In 1902, there were 17 million horses and only 23,000 cars in the United States but six years later,...
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Interconnectivity: Americas
Simon Bolivar. Image: wikimedia commons. Should the Americas be interconnected; if so, in which ways? Simon Bolivar raised the issue in 1826; Bill Clinton continued the debate at 1994’s Summit of the...
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PanAmerican MagLev
“Ciudad de Panama de noche” image: wikimedia commons. Cumbre de las Americas, 2015 Summit of the Americas, in the panel on “Infrastructure, Logistics and Connectivity: Bringing the Americas Together,”...
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Environmental (W)holiness
Pope Francis stated that protecting the environment is a moral and ethical obligation. Image: wikimedia commons. Pope Francis has updated the list of sins; harming the environment is now of ethical,...
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8 billion hours
Traffic jam in Beijing, 2005. Image: wikimedia commons. Americans spend 8 billion hours a year stuck in traffic. When the Federal Highway System was built, roadways did not anticipate the lure of the...
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Bridge to the Future
Bridges to the future: in the next 15 years, the world will build more infrastructure than is currently on the planet. Photo: “Gaoliang Bridge: The Summer Palace” by Hennessey, wikimedia commons....
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Mothers Walk for Peace
Image: Photographer, Rebecca Eschler, 2008. Wikimedia commons. A higher purpose, above ground; a safer world, below. Why not send cars and trucks underground, where new roads for autonomous vehicles...
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Grid Luck
Denmark, state banner from 14th century, location of world’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) commercial charging station. Image: wikimedia commons. Batteries in electric cars could help to balance the...
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Charging the future
Image: Devin sportscar, 1962. Will 2062 see a new model at one of Ionity’s charging stations? Image: wikimedia.org Automakers BMW, Daimler, Ford, and Volkswagen will share equity in a new venture,...
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Electricentric MWay
Monterrey to Memphis to Montreal: Electricentric MWay? Image: Khaled, Wikimedia Commons. Ford Motor Company is taking a right turn. The Michigan automotive manufacturer reversed a decision: instead of...
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Two paths diverge: road or rail?
“Night lapse of the 401” by Kennymatic, 2008. Image: wikimedia Road ahead? Concrete decisions may determine the future of cities. Many urban centers are opting for surface transport: whether...
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TRANSPORT: Steering USMCA
“Chevy Corvette Stingray Z06 at Detroit Auto Show,” 2014 by Tuner Tom. Image: wikimedia United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA), a sequel to Nafta, offers a unique opportunity to combine two...
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ENERGY: Shaping the Future
Image: photographer Andrew MacMillan. wikimedia. Electric vehicles are dependent upon batteries both for power and for design. That’s why General Motors’ recent announcement was a double break-through....
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ENERGY: A Sabbath for Earth?
Image: Manhattan Bridge, New York, without traffic. Image:wikimedia Does it take a crisis to cause change? Since the coronavirus pandemic pushed the global pause button, emissions of CO2 have fallen by...
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TRANSPORT: Trains as Mobile Medical System
India is rebuilding trains as rolling hospital wards, refitting coaches into care facilities with 16 beds. Indian Railways is modifying 20,000 carriage coaches, for a total of 320,000 new isolation...
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WATER: Self-healing systems
Self-healing water systems: rebuilding water. Image: water pipes, wikimedia commona. Houston is rebuilding. A severe winter storm knocked out power, in February, leaving families and businesses huddled...
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Earth Day 2021
“Earth Spinning.” Image animation: wikimedia commons. Earth Day 2021 brings some good news: we may be on target to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement (COP21). When nations convened in the city of...
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