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An electric bus in France.

Environment

Electric Buses Are Struggling to Gain Traction Worldwide

What prevents cities from adopting electric buses en masse is a mix of technological, financial, and institutional challenges, according to a pair of reports from the World Resource Institute looking at efforts in 16 cities at various stages of adopting e-buses.

A bus lane next to lines of traffic.

Social Justice

Could Designing a Better Bus Lane Be Done With a Simple Can of Paint?

"Tactical transit lanes"—also known as dedicated bus lanes—are a simple and low-cost way of creating better bussing infrastructure.

Economics

Why People Vote for Expanded Public Transport but Don’t Actually Use It

New research in Los Angeles shows that people support expanded transit options based on party affiliation and frustration with congestion—but not to ride it themselves.

Environment

Are Battery-Powered Electric Buses Coming to Your City?

While it may sound like an easy climate win to have buses run on battery power, the technology may not be ready to support such initiatives.

Commuters wait for a train at a London Underground station.

News in Brief

London Is Adding 250 New Trains to Improve the Efficiency of Its Subways

It's going to cost the city around $2 billion to increase the capacity of the four "Deep Tube" lines by 10 trains an hour.

Feargus O'Sullivan

A Mexican woman holding a sign reading "We want us alive" takes part in a protest against murders and other violence toward women in Mexico City on September 17th, 2017.

Social Justice

Could a Female-Only Ride-Hailing App Actually Work in Mexico?

After a Cabify driver was accused of murdering a college student near Puebla, Mexico, appetite for an "Uber for women" continues to grow.

Subway

News in Brief

All Aboard! Next Stop, Less Obesity

New research provides the best evidence yet linking public transportation usage with lower obesity rates.

News in Brief

Improving Los Angeles Public Transportation Is a Civil Rights Issue

Los Angeles County’s inability to expand public transportation limits access and further disenfranchises its most vulnerable populations. By…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Why Do Public Transit Systems Ignore the Poor?

Transportation planners have a tough time getting effective metrics for the social equity of their systems.

News in Brief

House Puts Transportation in Partisan Crossfire

Transportation used to be one of the few guaranteed areas of agreement when pragmatism trumped ideology in D.C. But that’s no longer the case.