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City Cyclists Are at Increased Risk from Lung Injury from Inhaled Soot, Study Finds
September 25, 2011 — People who cycle through London and other major cities have higher levels of black carbon in their airway cells, experts from the UK have ... > full story -
Congestion Pricing Works Best When Partnered With Land-Use Planning
September 23, 2011 — An examination of a congestion-pricing pilot program in Portland, Ore., finds that congestion pricing strategies benefit from land-use planning that provides households with alternative ways to ... > full story -
Engineers Simulate Large Earthquake on Curved Bridge
September 23, 2011 — Six full-size pickup trucks took a wild ride on a 16-foot-high steel bridge when it shook violently in a series of never-before-conducted experiments to investigate the seismic behavior of a curved ... > full story -
Autonomous Car Navigates the Streets of Berlin
September 20, 2011 — Researchers from Berlin traveled 80 km in total as passengers during a test drive of their autonomous car "MadeInGermany" over the weekend. The car is driven by computers - the safety driver behind ... > full story -
Stronger Graduated Driver Licensing Programs for Teens Show Mixed Results for Rates of Teen Involvement in Fatal Crashes
September 13, 2011 — The use of stronger graduated driver licensing programs for 16- to 19-year old drivers in the US that included restrictions on nighttime driving and allowed passengers were associated with a lower ... > full story -
Crashes Common Among Helicopters Used in Oil and Gas Operations, Study Finds
September 12, 2011 — A new study finds that helicopters that service the drilling platforms and vessels in the Gulf of Mexico crash on average more than six times per year resulting in an average of five deaths per ... > full story -
Identifying Dangerous Intersections With Help of New Computer Simulation
September 12, 2011 — Researchers have developed SAFEPED, a computer simulation that integrates robots and driver statistics to identify traffic "black spots" and allows traffic planners to analyze and fix dangerous ... > full story -
Researchers Create New Urban Network Analysis Toolbox
September 6, 2011 — Researchers have created a new Urban Network Analysis (UNA) toolbox that enables urban designers and planners to describe the spatial patterns of cities using mathematical network analysis methods. ... > full story -
Great Tits Sing Low to Be Loved or High to Be Heard
August 31, 2011 — Male great tits of this species try to sound sexy to females by singing complex or high performance songs, but may find their attempts hindered by human-generated noise. Birds have been found to ... > full story -
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Measurement Tools for Traffic Crash Injury Severity Improving
August 22, 2011 — Efforts to improve traffic safety have been aided by mathematical models that allow researchers to better assess those factors that impact the degree of injury suffered as a result of traffic ... > full story
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