The relationship between car shedding and subjective well-being
Subjective well-being improves with car shedding, if it's not done for financial reasons.
Tagged “transport”
Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him
please fewer underground car tubes
Europe is investing heavily in trains
The Perverse Reason It’s Easier to Build New Highways Than New Subways
Tunnels are our Transportation Future
donoteat01's hyperloop take still has me very skeptical on tunnels as a viable transport alternative.
So, You Want to Build a House More Efficiently?
Covers a lot! Approximate cost breakdowns, on people's desire for customisation, on transport costs of materials (you can't ship prefab concrete slabs across the country).
Includes a handy one-liner on why things aren't improving:
The combination of consumer tastes, low dollar value per volume building components, and the complexity of buildings inhibit efforts to scale.
The limits of high speed rail
A walk through how fast different types of train can go, and why. Great balance of history and physics, detailed but without too much assumed knowledge.
New York’s Subway Map Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
One more lane will fix it...
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