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Traffic, congestion and related pollution in large cities could be problems of the past with the implementation of a futuristic, personal rapid transit system called SkyTran, according to the system's designers.
Unimodal Inc., the project's overarching company, originally looked at ASU's Polytechnic campus as a possible site for the first track, said Jon Fink, director of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability. ...Read On

Not only are bus rapid transit (BRT) systems the better option for transport in countries like South Africa, it is the only solution for mass transport in such countries, Institute for Transport and Development Policy president Enrique Peñalosa said on Tuesday. ...Read On

Several members of the Atlanta City Council Monday criticized a public-private partnership for committing city tax money to a planned streetcar project before getting the council's approval....Read On

Colorado is at a key crossroads with respect to our future transport systems, and we need to carefully evaluate our next steps to ensure that we get as close as possible to a successful plan for keeping people and commerce moving efficiently in Colorado in the next century....Read On

The city of Brussels, Belgium, shipped two state-of-the-art light rail trams to Vancouver, a gift to use during the 2010 Winter Games on a refurbished 1.8-kilometre line along False Creek.The vehicles, which were built by Canadian transportation giant Bombardier at its Bruges plant in Belgium, will operate a free service 18 hours a day, seven days a week during the Olympic and Paralympic period between Granville Island and the Vancouver Athletes Village....Read On

A Fairfax County nonprofit group has pulled together enough landowners to create a special tax district, the missing piece in the public-funding plan for 23 miles of Metro stations from Reston to Dulles International Airport and beyond, officials said Friday. ...Read On

By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing reduces traffic and raises money that can be used to support public transit-both worthy goals.  Yet congestion pricing has dubious environmental value. Traffic jams, if they're managed well, can actually be good for the environment. They maintain a level of frustration that turns drivers into subway riders or pedestrians. ...Read On