Road safety

It’s time for transportation planners to move beyond ‘level of service’

This car-centric assessment of roads and mass transit fails to consider the wide range of needs that people and cities have regarding transportation networks.

The staggering pedestrian safety crisis in African cities

In places like Dar es Salaam, far more children are killed by the drivers of cars, trucks and motorcycles than are killed by Aids, malaria or diarrheal diseases.

Cities are starting to report big declines in car crashes, but increases in speeding

Speed kills, even during a pandemic.

Think roads are dangerous? Sometimes we aren’t even safe on pavements

In the Pakistani city of Peshawar, commuters risk their lives travelling on over-crowded buses each day

Someone's finally invented the pedestrian bell

This bike light projects a glowing green bike in front of you

Map: Which European cities have the fewest traffic fatalities?

The two worst US cities for drivers are both in Massachusetts