Americans living in the fifty most congested cities spend an average of thirty-three hours each year stuck in traffic. Congestion causes much more than driver aggravation: air quality suffers, vehicle idling and stop-and-go traffic reduce fuel...

Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering that uses engineering techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. It focuses mainly on research and construction of the immobile infrastructure necessary for this...

Byline: REBECCA LIVENGOOD CONTRIBUTING WRITER Q) Who designs the systems that control traffic lights so that traffic will move smoothly? A) You are talking about transportation engineers, but they do much more than design those systems. They also design highways, airports,...

As a result of a new Web site, it will be easier for warfighters to deploy. MTMC's Transportation Engineering Agency has completed the first phase of its new Intelligent Road/Rail Information System. It is available for users with Internet Explorer at...

Victims of a 2003 crash in which an elderly driver plowed into a crowded farmers market can sue the city of Santa Monica for failing to protect them, a state appeals court ruled.The ruling by the 2nd District Court of Appeals reinstated allegations that the...

And Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, passses on a eulogy to the Village's departed éminence grise. Read both of them after the jump. Jane Jacobs was a friend to cities at a time when they sorely needed one....