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If You Build It, Cars Will Come: the Common-Sense Logic of Induced Demand Highway expansion has been shown, time and again, to increase traffic and congestion. Cities are finally getting the message. May 14, 2021, 6am PDT | Diana Ionescu | For decades, conventional wisdom in transportation planning circles held that "when a highway is choked with traffic, the solution is to expand it or build another road nearby." Yet research from projects around the country, writes Alan Ehrenhalt in Gove...

Credit: NIST Adam Jacoff has been a robotics research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1988. His research has focused on developing a variety of new robotic capabilities and designing comprehensive suites of tests to foster innovation throughout the robotics community to help keep emergency responders out of harm’s way. Adam, along with the NIST Emergency Response Robotics team, is a finalist for a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Meda...

Asphalt, Gridlock and Common Sense It’s clear that adding lanes to urban expressways or building new ones doesn’t reduce congestion. Sometimes it makes things worse. So why do we keep doing it? May 4, 2021 •  (Shutterstock)Sometimes in government, the best-laid strategies of policymakers and consultants are much less rational than ordinary common sense. Nearly everyone in America believes, correctly, that workers shouldn’t be yoked to their employers for health insurance, even though ...