Most state highways (which follow a specific highway naming convention) are designed to promote crisscrossed travel routes where other roads merge into highways at limited access points controlled by traffic lights, stop signs or roundabout intersections. Not all highways will have these intersections...
Draft a schedule of how much you want to drive each day. Also, include any must-see places on there. Allow yourself some time to rest and or change it up, though. Things may sometimes go differently than planned. You may experience traffic or run into a storm. If that happens, you m...
If you get off the major highway to deliver your load, you'll need a city permit, even if you have a state permit. State highways are governed by a different agency than local roads. It's the same reason you'll see highway patrol cars writing tickets on expressways and local law ...
On the highways, the range of high-power charging stations that operate with direct current (DC) is also growing. They are designed for charging capacities from 5 to 15 times that of an AC charging station and ensure that even high-capacity BEV batteries can be charged up for hundreds of ...
Independent urbanist, designer and futurist Liam Young tells City Lab, “When you have services coming at people from different cross-sectional heights, you can’t have a city planned solely around the ground. Buildings would have to adapt to the kinds of visual cues and parameters those drones...
Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is kno...
On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) International Roadcheck — aka DOT Week or DOT Blitz — hits North American highways. With capacity beginning to tighten up in the truckload market, you should keep an eye on this annual disruption and plan for some ...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being developed, tested, and commercialized around the world. While skilled human drivers can rely on their experience and common sense to navigate complex driving situations that involve trade-offs between competing objecti
Create a platform or forum to enhance coordination between the state and private sectors. This could be a portal, regular working sessions, stakeholder calls, designated councils, or other solutions. The idea is to keep communications flowing over which projects are planned, ...
Amtrak was founded in 1971 as astate-owned enterprise (SOE)when the federal government stepped in to save an American rail industry that had been pushed to the brink of collapse by a host ofmacroeconomicforces. The proliferation of air travel and highways increased competition in the civilian tr...