Rail

housing recovery

New data from the Washington, DC metro area show that the area’s real estate recovery since 2009 has been strong. But it has not been equally strong in all locations.[read more]

US Rail

What would we gain from investing in rail, especially high-speed rail? In short, lots: in a new documentary experts discuss the environmental, economic, and human health benefits.[read more]

Hamburg, Germany

An increasing number of community policy makers, planners and residents around the world want their communities —neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities— to be more liveable.[read more]

Phoenix light-rail

Phoenix, Arizona is infamous for its sprawl, its little stucco boxes, and its dominant car culture. An ambitious project aims to change the way Phoenix’s light rail is developed.[read more]

tunneling beneath London

The Crossrail tunnels in London—for now, Europe's largest construction project, scheduled to finish in 2018—continue to take shape, created in a "tunneling marathon under the streets of London."[read more]

Nearly 80 percent of the Amtrak route between Detroit and Chicago is now publicly owned, allowing MDOT to maintain the tracks for high-speed passenger rail.[read more]

We should be looking for routes where train is more cost-effective than either driving or taking an airplane. This distance is certainly less than 600 miles for most of the US, under current costs of travel.[read more]

Soon after Grand Central Terminal opened in 1913, it was viewed as an one of the great public spaces in America, an icon of modern travel. Years later, developers wanted to take a wrecking ball to Grand Central and replace it with an office tower.[read more]

Despite growing enthusiasm for local products, most of the items that end up in your shopping basket or in your wardrobe will have journeyed through a global cargo system that is as complex as it is carbon-intensive. According to most estimates, moving things (including people) around accounts for 15% of global carbon emissions.[read more]

On January 9, 2013, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced changes to the New Starts and Small Starts programs.  These reforms streamline the administrative review process for applicants to both programs and apply broader evaluation criteria to proposed projects. More specifically, these changes expand the program’s...[read more]

A total of 469-miles of track and 483-stations were built in Seoul in 30 years. By contrast, it took about the same amount of time just to plan and start construction on a 5-mile, 2-station extension for the BART rail transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area.[read more]

High-speed rail is generally regarded as the pinnacle of attractive and green transportation. But all too often, it makes train travel more expensive and less flexible. In the end, costly high-speed lines may just push more people into cars.[read more]