Transportation

This Wildly Creative Art Project Transformed an Ugly Interstate Into a 2,400-Mile-Long Visual Masterpiece

Zoe Crosher and Shamim Momin are behind the effort to turn the classic American eyesore into true art

Detail from the cover of the 1948 Green Book, a guidebook for black travelers.

A Black American's Guide to Travel In the Jim Crow Era

For decades, <i>The Green Book </i> was the black traveler's lifeline

Will Driverless Cars Mean Less Roadkill?

Avoiding wildlife could be a tough task for these super-smart cars

Colin Detrich's "DataCycle"

How Seattle is Using a "Frankenbike" to Improve its Bike Trails

Tinkerer Colin Dietrich built it, and now the city's department of transportation has come to use the tricked-out bike to assess its bike paths

Chicago's Newest Library Is on a Train

Bored during your morning commute? #BooksOnTheL can help.

Google’s Driverless Car Got Confused By A Cyclist

It just wants to protect soft, perishable humans.

Japan’s Subways Now Have Drunk-Spotting Cameras

A pilot program seeks to save drunken passengers from the dangers of busy train tracks

The motor convoy departed D.C. on July 7, 1919.

How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized American Highways

Quicksand, food rationing, and embarrassment may have prompted Ike to push for a better highway system

The 7 Line is currently undergoing a system upgrade from one that was installed in the 1930s to one run by computers.

NYC Subway Technology Goes Way Back...to the 1930s

America's busiest subway system relies on vintage machines

Seven Ways to Revamp Deserted Spaces Under New York City's Highways and Elevated Trains

The Design Trust for Public Space reimagines neglected areas under the city's infrastructure

The Hyperloop Will Be Only the Latest Innovation That's Pretty Much a Series of Tubes

The idea of using pneumatics to send objects has been around for ages. But people?

Cyclists won't have to look away from the road with head-up display.

Five Tech Ideas That Could Improve City Bike Commuting

A group of London designers imagines Google Glass-like visors and buses that project outlines of their blind spots on the road

A concept illustration of the Hyperloop

Elon Musk’s Futuristic Hyperloop is Coming to California Next Year

The project isn’t the enormous high-speed rail alternative that Elon Musk orginialy proposed, but it is close

New lanes on London's Regents Canal urge human bikers, runners and walkers to break for ducklings.

London Adds Special Lanes for Ducks

A city charity has painted pathways for waddlers on Regents Canal walkways

Watch As a Real-Life Hoverboard Whirs to Life

At Smithsonian magazine's Future is Here festival, a few lucky attendees got to take a ride

Traffic control centers like this one in Boston—a room cluttered with computer terminals and live video feeds of urban intersections—represent the brain of a traffic system.

Will We Ever Be Able to Make Traffic Disappear?

City engineers make changes in the timing of signals to keep cars moving, but cell phone data and vehicle-to-vehicle communication could ease the task

The Very First Self-Driving Semi Truck Has Hit the Road

The Freightliner Inspiration is the first commercially-licensed autonomous truck

Harnessing the Power of Peer Pressure Could Help Reduce Traffic

People are more likely to carpool if they think their peers are doing it too

More than half of the drivers queried in a 2014 insurance industry survey said their cars had been damaged by potholes.

The War on Potholes Has a New Weapon

Researchers at Northeastern University have outfitted a van with sensors, microphones and cameras that can spot the early stages of potholes

In the future, what role will cars play in our lives?

Are Cars Driving Into the Sunset?

Our love affair with automobiles is changing in the face of climate change and denser urban living

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