Transportation

Toyota believes the sum of many small, simple cheap improvements can have bigger impact than simply giving a charity a cash donation.

August 5, 2013 7:45am | By Kirsten Korosec

Some of the items we regularly abandon at airport security will now go to new owners under the Clothe a Homeless Hero Act.

2 | August 5, 2013 3:43am | By Charlie Osborne

Take a ride with us as we visit 14 of the world's largest metro systems. Public transport never looked so good.

3 | August 1, 2013 10:52am

Nine of 10 transportation infrastructure projects are more expensive than first estimated. Why isn't it ever the other way around?

1 | August 1, 2013 5:40am | By Tyler Falk

Saudi Arabia's largest city is getting its first metro rail system in a city where only 2 percent of population uses public transportation.

5 | July 31, 2013 7:19pm | By Tyler Falk

Would trading your electric vehicle on the weekends for a sports car make EVs more attractive?

9 | July 31, 2013 10:30am | By Charlie Osborne

Fuel costs for conventional ocean freighters are increasing. Rolls Royce and B9 Shipping are developing a cargo vessel featuring a 180-foot sail augmented by biomethane engines.

22 | July 31, 2013 12:10am | By Janet Fang

If you're not enamoured by fondling as part of the airport screening process, then the TSA will let you pass -- for a fee.

12 | July 26, 2013 5:57am | By Charlie Osborne

A high-speed train derails in northern Spain, killing 78 people and injuring 178. Here's the video -- and an explanation for why it's so unusual.

2 | July 25, 2013 7:56am | By Andrew Nusca

Energy analyst Chris Nelder fires back at the latest fact-free commentary on peak oil.

62 | July 24, 2013 3:10am | By Chris Nelder

Overall daily subway ridership is up, but peak-hour ridership is down: evidence that '9 to 5' is becoming '24/7/365.'

July 23, 2013 6:41pm | By Joe McKendrick

Even your ice cream is adapting to climate change.

1 | July 23, 2013 10:17am | By Tyler Falk

Is a second runway necessary for British airspace?

July 23, 2013 10:04am | By Charlie Osborne

Given a choice, would you rather be a newspaper reporter or an actuary? One is the best job to have, the other is the worst.

4 | July 22, 2013 10:08am | By Joe McKendrick

The dinging bells of summer ice-cream trucks have been replaced by a high-tech reservation system to serve up frozen treats on demand.

July 19, 2013 12:18pm | By David Worthington

For environmentalists, there's nothing like a Canadian tar sands company as a whipping boy. But a novel nuclear reactor could help things scrub up out on the Saskatchewan prairie.

9 | July 18, 2013 6:11am | By Mark Halper

Rail networks are expected to double in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East by 2022.

3 | July 16, 2013 4:00am | By Tyler Falk

Chinese officials are planning the world's longest, expensive and most ambitious undersea tunnel ever.

8 | July 12, 2013 9:51am | By David Worthington

The International Energy Agency is calling on cities to improve the energy efficiency of their transit systems.

1 | July 12, 2013 7:14am | By Tyler Falk

BUENOS AIRES -- Buenos Aires' 100-kilometer network of bike paths was meant to decongest the city and improve its citizens' health. But the initiative has also had less obvious benefits.

2 | July 12, 2013 3:00am | By Ian Mount