Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Studies & Reports

States That Ban Traffic Safety Cams Put Their Own Residents’ Lives at Risk

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 25, 2014 | No Comments

In Ohio, lawmakers are now poised to outlaw traffic safety cameras, needlessly obstructing efforts to save lives. Similar bills were taken up this year in statehouses in Iowa, South Dakota and Missouri. According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Association, 12 states have laws that forbid speed cameras under most circumstances. If enacted, these laws will certainly end […]

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The Parking Tax Benefit: A $7.3 Billion Subsidy for Traffic Congestion

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2014 | No Comments

The federal government spends billions of dollars a year on tax subsidies that make traffic congestion worse, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by TransitCenter and the Frontier Group. The culprit is the parking commuter tax benefit, which costs taxpayers $7.3 billion in foregone revenue each year, all while adding more than 800,000 cars to rush-hour […]

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More Evidence That Adding Bike Infrastructure Boosts Biking

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 13, 2014 | No Comments

If you build it, they will bike. That’s the upshot of a new study from researchers at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, examining the effect of bike infrastructure. Researchers charted bike commuting rates across the Minneapolis area, finding, not surprisingly, that the biggest increases happened near the biggest investments in safe, comfortable bike infrastructure. The research […]

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Confirmed: Sprawl and Bad Transit Increase Unemployment

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 30, 2014 | No Comments

Since the 1960s and the earliest days of job sprawl, the theory of “spatial mismatch” — that low-income communities experience higher unemployment because they are isolated from employment centers — has shaped the way people think about urban form and social equity. But it’s also been challenged. The research that supporting spatial mismatch has suffered from some […]

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Don’t Believe the Headlines: Bike Boom Has Been Fantastic for Bike Safety

By Michael Andersen and Tanya Snyder | Oct 28, 2014 | No Comments

The Governors Highway Safety Association released a report Monday that, the organization claimed, showed that the ongoing surge in American biking has increased bike fatalities. Transportation reporters around the country swung into action. “Fatal bicycle crashes on the rise, new study shows,” said the Des Moines Register headline. “Cycling is increasing and that may be […]

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Study: Safe Routes to School Programs Boost Walking and Biking 30%

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 22, 2014 | No Comments

In just two generations, the share of American kids who walk or bike to school has plummeted — dropping from 50 percent in 1969 to 13 percent today. Can the trend be reversed? Yes, according to new research that shows the impact of street safety infrastructure and other programs implemented with federal Safe Routes to […]

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