October 13, 2017
Enabling the newest massive container ships to travel to the East Coast, the Panama Canal expansion changed the world's transportation infrastructure.
September 3, 2017
Sometimes invisible, the Southwest Effect has influenced air fares and air traffic since the 1970s when Southwest was a small Texas carrier.
August 16, 2017
Whereas the Model T brought us suburbia, highways and McDonald's, the spillover from self-driving cars will also transform our lives at home and at work.
June 22, 2017
For Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we can fondly look back to comfortable economy class travel before less pitch and width created shrinking airline seats.
June 21, 2017
Just like there's no such thing as a free lunch, for consumers, retailers and shippers, there's no such thing as free shipping.
June 19, 2017
When politicians plan to update our transportation infrastructure, they are influenced by a hidden hand that can be benevolent or malevolent.
June 7, 2017
While the traffic congestion problem in NYC, LA and D.C. wastes huge time and money, they do not appear to want to solve it.
June 1, 2017
As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.
April 19, 2017
February 8, 2017
The story of a Breezewood, Pennsylvania traffic jam is really about the mysteries created by federal infrastructure spending.
August 3, 2015
As we improve our transportation infrastructure, the roundabout has become increasingly attractive because of safety, ease and cost.
July 29, 2015
Because of a low gasoline tax, the Highway Trust Fund does not have enough money to maintain the transportation infrastructure of highways and mass transit.