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Some safety recommendations are treated as essential—while others become negotiable once influential people object.

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Beneath their rhetoric lies the familiar Washington story of a bill shaped less by evidence than by the demands of organized ...

GIS Analysis is a useful tool for transportation policy, and this piece applies the GIS-analysis model to railroad grade ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now being detected inside the human body. A new review, titled "Emerging Public Health ...

Archaeologists in Peru have recovered two potato lumps from an Inca storeroom dating back about 500 years, and the pieces ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have created a 3D ...

The $580 billion BUILD America 250 transportation bill shows how Washington turns safety policy into stakeholder management, ...

Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year’s surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation ...

Transit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir.

The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the history goes ...