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Category Archives: logistics
Cities/suburbs should replan street networks for low-speed electric vehicles
As the electric vehicle revolution expands around the globe, one factor that cities and suburbs need to start accounting for is the increased adoption of low-speed electric vehicles for personal and transit use. Whether you refer to them as low-speed … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Alternative transportation, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, consumerism, density, downtown, electric vehicles, engineering, environment, EVs and hybrids, fun, geography, health, highways, history, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, logistics, new urbanism, parking, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, product design, revitalization, shopping, solar, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, technology, Trade, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged cities, electric vehicles, EVs, low-speed electric vehicles, LSVs, neighborhood electric vehicles, NEVs, suburbs, tiny cars, transportation, transportation planning
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North America’s busiest RO/RO motor vehicle seaports
Enormous Brunswick, Georgia RO/RO Terminal – Source: lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com RO/RO seaports are those that service ships that import and export motor vehicles including cars, trucks, construction equipment, farm equipment, and even boats; they literally roll-on and roll-off (RO/RO). Almost sounds like … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, distribution, economic development, electric vehicles, engineering, EVs and hybrids, geography, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, Mexico, North America, planning, shipping, spatial design, Statistics, Trade, transportation
Tagged automobiles, exports, harbors, imports, motor vehicles, ports, Ro/Ro, seaports, shippings, transportation
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Working list: North America’s largest rail yards
Trains moving in the UP Bailey Yard – photo by author June 2021 Below is a working list of the largest active rail yard facilities in North America comprising 200 acres or more in acreage. Included are classification yards, rail … Continue reading
Posted in business, cities, commerce, distribution, economic development, engineering, geography, history, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, planning, rail, Railroads, shipping, spatial design, Statistics, Trade, traffic, transportation, urban planning
Tagged classification yards, intermodal, intermodal terminals, rail yards, railroads, terminals, tracks, trains, transportation
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Ten planning lessons from mighty Los Angeles
Despite its detractors, every time I’m in Los Angeles, the city impresses me more. From the first time in 1970 to just recently, the changes are palpable, especially the move(s) away from being so car-centric and increased densification. Below, is … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Alternative transportation, architecture, art, bicycling, branding, business, cities, civics, commerce, culture, density, distribution, downtown, economic development, Economy, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, fun, geography, Highway displacement, highways, historic preservation, history, humanity, immigration, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, mountains, movies, music, nature, Passenger rail, peace, pictures, placemaking, planning, pollution, rail, Railroads, recreation, skylines, skyscrapers, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, Television, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, trucking, urban design, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged art, Brady Bunch, Burbank, California, cities, commuter rail, Glendale, highways, Hollywood, LA, land use, light rail, Long Beach, Los Angeles, movies, Pasadena, planning, ports, Santa Monica, subways, transportation, trucks, TV
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The top 100 Interstate Highway truck bottlenecks
Source: scientificamerican.com The map below depicts the location of the top 100 bottlenecks for trucks in the United States on the Interstate Highway System in 2019. Note: Though shown in gray instead of red or pink, Kansas City has one … Continue reading
Posted in business, cities, distribution, geography, highways, history, humanity, infrastructure, logistics, Maps, planning, shipping, spatial design, Statistics, Trade, traffic, transportation, trucking, urban planning
Tagged bottlenecks, cities, congestion, distribution, highways, Interstate Highways, transportation, trucking, trucks
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25 Largest American core cities without a limited access beltway or bypass
The list below is based on 2020 Census data and includes cities without a limited access bypass freeway or a limited access beltway. Several of the cities identified below have one or the other type of bypass scheduled in future … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, cities, commerce, economic development, geography, Highway displacement, highways, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, planning, politics, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, topography, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged beltway, bypass, cities, expressway, highways, land use, planning, transportation, travel
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Ugly two-digit Interstate Highway segments and thoughts on how to improve them
The following list identifies some segments of two-digit Interstate Highways where the aesthetics along the freeway are far less than pleasing. The list represents segments where there is little to impress a traveler and may in fact repel them from … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, architecture, bicycling, Cars, cities, civics, culture, economic development, economic gardening, environment, Highway displacement, highways, historic preservation, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, logistics, Maps, marketing, nature, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, recreation, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, third places, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, walking, water trails, zoning
Tagged blight, cities, decline, freeways, Hammond, Interstate Highways, tourism, travel
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Geography of underground co-location data centers
The list below identifies underground data centers located around the globe that are designed to serve multiple tenants (co-location) versus solely one business or organization. Given the wide ranging of threats to data resources from climate change, cyber attacks, malware, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, atomic age, business, commerce, Communications, ecommerce, economic development, engineering, geography, Geology, government, history, infrastructure, internet, land use, logistics, military, Mining, planning, product design, spatial design, Statistics, technology, topography, tunnels, zoning
Tagged bunkers, data centers, geography, geology, mining, technology, underground, underground data centers
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Working list of continuous flow/displaced left-turn intersections in the USA
Also known as a displaced left-turn intersection, these intersections are meant to improve traffic flow, especially for intersections with busy left turns. That being said, continuous flow seems to be a misnomer, as in most, if not all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, cities, commerce, distribution, engineering, geography, government, health, highways, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, pictures, planning, product design, Statistics, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged cities, continuous flow intersections, crossover left-turn intersections, design, displaced left-turn intersections, enginnering, geography, highways, intersections, land use, left-turns, planning, traffic, transportation, transportation planning
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