Electric vehicles, battery technology and renewable energy: Research roundup
2015 roundup of research on recent technological advances that could enable wider adoption of electrical vehicles powered by sustainable energy sources.
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Gas prices and their societal effects: Health, driving, economics and policy
2015 roundup of research on the global decline in gas and oil prices, and the potential effects on public health, transportation and driving, business economics and public policy decisions.
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Do traffic tickets reduce motor vehicle crashes? Evidence from “Click It or Ticket”
2014 study in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management demonstrating how police ticketing campaigns can reduce traffic crashes and fatality rates.
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Fundamental law of road congestion: Evidence from U.S. cities
2011 study from the University of Toronto and London School of Economics on the relationship between infrastructure and automotive traffic levels.
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Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of conventional and electric vehicles
2012 study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology on how electric cars stack up against those with traditional gas and diesel engines over their entire lifetimes.
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Transportation safety over time: Cars, planes, trains, walking, cycling
2013 study by Northwestern University on the relative fatality risk of a broad range of motorized and non-motorized transportation modes in the United States.
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Harvard’s José Gómez-Ibáñez: Key insights on the future of transportation and infrastructure
Harvard professor Gómez-Ibáñez talks about research on subjects as diverse as transit in the developing world, electric vehicles in urban areas and high-speed rail.
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Multitasking, texting and distracted driving: Researchers discuss cognitive effects and risks
Researchers from Kentucky University, West Virginia University, Harvard and Stanford discuss the risks of using mobile devices while driving and the impact of multitasking on how we process information.
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Why are Americans in worse health than people in other high-income countries?
2014 study from Harvard and LSE suggesting that standard explanations for U.S. residents’ relatively poor health are not sufficient and social policy needs to be examined more thoroughly.
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The impact of texting laws on motor vehicle fatalities
2014 study published in the American Journal of Public Health looks at the effectiveness of texting bans in reducing motor vehicle-related fatalities
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