The feds will finally revise the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which sets standards for signs, markings and signals that help road users — and, eventually, autonomous vehicles — safely move through our communities.

A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network — and how to fix them — with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.

Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.

The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.

Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.

Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.

Walking and cycling fatalities on U.S. roadways declined slightly in 2019 — but total crashes and injuries increased,

America's top federal safety agency is raising awareness this week about safety for older drivers, but largely ignoring how car dependence often forces seniors to take the wheel even when they can no longer do so safely. 

Drivers value their access to a private vehicle more than three times as much during the pandemic as they did before COVID-19. But we can change that.

The street market is a powerful and ancient idea that's overdue for a big U.S. comeback, a new report argues — and during a COVID-19 holiday season, there's no better time to get the SUVs out of the road and start setting up the vendor stalls.

A wave of U.S. car buyers nearly tied the all-time record for truck and SUV purchases, just weeks before the American people at large elected a President who wants to get rid of gas-guzzlers altogether by 2050.  

As voters across the country head to the ballot box, some cities are giving driving spaces around polling places back to the people — while others are leaving them out in the cold.