2011: The Year Ahead In California HSR
California High Speed Rail Blog
Actually, Highway Builders, Roads Don't Pay For Themselves
StreetsBlog DC
Advancing Congestion Pricing In The Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Four Case Studies (60p. PDF)
Federal Highway Administration
Alt 6 Top Transportation Stories Of 2010
AltTransport
As The South And West Grow, The Urban Agenda Should Adjust Accordingly
Next American City
Automated Measurement Of Stress In Continuous Welded Rail (4p. PDF)
Federal Railroad Administration Research Results
Bikers Unwelcome On Many L.A. Trails: A Comprehensive Update Of The City's Bicycle Plan Still Gives Precedence To Hikers And Equestrians
Los Angeles Times
Business-Style Planning: A Key For hard-Pressed Metros
CitiWire
The Four Keys To Moving LA In 2011
CityWatch
High-Speed Rail: Obama's High-Stakes Gamble
Time
Highway Bill Still Stuck In Neutral
Fleet Owner
Highway Trust Fund Battles ("Is there a way to stay within a budget and also maintain adequate maintenance of the nation's highways and runways? Is the "user-fee" model of financing outdated, and if so, what should replace it? Politically, is it really that easy for congressional appropriators to cut transportation funding, as AASHTO and other organizations fear? Or are those groups crying wolf?")
National Journal Transportation Blog
Is California's "Train To Nowhere" A Waste Of Tax Dollars?
CNBC
A New Source Of Oil: Old Carpet (Four billion pounds of old carpet get dumped every year in the United States, and five pounds of oil goes into producing a single pound of nylon. New recycling methods could save all that oil by producing new nylon from old with little energy cost)
Green Tech Enterprise
New Study Shows Walkable Neighborhoods Make People Happier
TreeHugger
New Twist Enlivens Old Station ("Reasonable and reliable 24-hour retail has arrived at Los Angeles’ Union Station!")
StreetsBlog LA
NYC Subway Service Ads Replace Poetry, Literature
Associated Press
Ontario Set On Landing Airport
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Opening And Construction Starts Planned For 2011
Transport Politic
Proposed Wilshire Bus Lane: Good Idea Or Bad?
Westside Today
Republicans Want To Hoard Transpo Money And Call It Deficit Reduction
StreetsBlog DC
A Road Less Traveled: Passenger Travel In The Industrialized World Has Been Stagnant For Nearly A Decade, Researchers Say (“With talk of ‘peak oil,’ why not the possibility of ‘peak travel’ when a clear plateau has been reached?”)
Miller-McCune
San Francisco Mobility, Access, And Pricing Study (63p. PDF : "This Study evaluates the applicability of congestion pricing to San Francisco’s transportation system within the context of a wider mobility management strategy that encompasses efforts in demand management and investment in Transit First1 modes, among other strategies.")
San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Stop, Look And Love: 8 Redesigns Of Classic Traffic Lights
Web Urbanist
Tea Partiers See A Global Conspiracy In Local Planning Efforts
Next American City
Top 10 Infrastructure Stories Of 2010 (photo essay)
Infrastructurist
A Transportation Manifesto For A New Decade
StreetsBlog Network
Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Report (76p. PDF : Summary of TRB's programs and activities over the last year and an overview of its divisions)
Transportation Research Board
The Urban Landscape From A To Z (An alphabetical look back at 2010)
Grist
Would Bike-Only Boulevards Be All Bad?
TreeHugger
The Year Ahead In Bikes
Grist