2021: The Year Transit Failed to Recover Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #688
By Randal O’Toole, writer of The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: Check out Part 1 here that explores what happened with transit before and during the pandemic. The NMA is reprinting with permission this post that first appeared on The Antiplanner website. Transit by Urban Area As of December, transit carried 58 percent of pre-pandemic riders in […]
The Changing Landscape of Speed Limits
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Winter 2022 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! Advocating for speed limits based on sound traffic-engineering […]
2021: The Year Transit Failed to Recover Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #687
By Randal O’Toole, writer of The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA is reprinting with permission this post that first appeared on The Antiplanner website. Despite receiving tens of billions of dollars in support from Congress, the transit industry in 2021 failed to recover most of the riders it lost to the pandemic in 2020. Ridership […]
The Relationship between Population Growth and Congestion: NMA E-Newsletter #676
By NMA Board Member Christopher DiPrima In previous newsletters (A Primer on Induced Demand Part 1 and Part 2), I outlined the complicated relationship between new highway lane capacity and induced demand – a much-misunderstood concept, which is often summarized incorrectly as, “you can’t build your way out of congestion.” In those newsletters, I described […]
Should Bikelash be Over?: NMA E-Newsletter #675
Even before the pandemic, bike lanes were springing up all over the country in cities large and small. Most motorists weren’t happy, mainly because fewer travel lanes typically translated into longer trips through congested traffic. During the pandemic, the rate of cities building bike lanes and banning cars on streets rose dramatically. The anti-car crowd […]
A Data-Driven Approach to Transportation Safety Part 3: NMA E-Newsletter #672
By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA has received permission to post this report on recent findings on traffic safety in the US. Read Parts 1 and Part 2 for more information. Data-Driven Safety Such data-driven analyses play almost no role in urban traffic safety programs today. For example, Vision Zero is based on […]
A Primer on Induced Demand, Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #664
By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member Editor’s Note: We touched on induced demand—the theory that as highway capacity increases, demand does also, thereby creating a never-ending need for more capacity—in NMA E-Newsletter #599 last year. In light of the current infrastructure negotiations in Washington, and the ongoing effort to reshape urban land use by […]
Driver Courtesy Month—Steady as You Go!
Welcome to Driver Courtesy Month! This blog is part four of our month-long series on Driver Courtesy. Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3! Don’t forget to take the online quiz Are You a Courteous Driver? “Steady as you go” can mean many things to many different people, but for the purposes of […]
How Car Manufacturers Use the Cloud to Process Real-Time Data
By guest writer Utsav Arora Cloud technology is a revolutionary modern technology, transforming every sector of modern life day by day. This tech has made its way into multiple industries and business platforms, allowing these enterprises to develop applications faster and store data more efficiently. Cloud technology has advocated the development of futuristic innovations in […]
Should We Lean into a Federal Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax?
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in May as NMA E-Newsletter #643. Since we first posted this information, the Senate has passed an infrastructure bill that includes a federal program to gauge whether or not a federal vehicle miles traveled tax could work. In the interim, there has been little discussion about adjusting the gas […]