The Best Articles in Mobility
The most useful articles and videos in Mobility from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Mobility Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Mobility by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
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How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia
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Should Airships Make a Comeback?
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How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars
A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it's never too early to start thinking about the future.
How to end the American obsession with driving
To fight climate change, cities need to be designed with much more walking, biking, and public transit use in mind.
«Speck said estimates place the subsidization of driving at $10 for every dollar a driver spends as opposed to $1.50 for public transit»
Trending
These links are currently making the rounds in Mobility on Refind.
RIP Apple Car. This Is Why It Died
Any tech company moving into the auto space needs a manufacturing partner. But Apple’s EV died as it lived: alone.
From London to New York: Can quitting cars be popular?
Cities around the world reveal surprising truths about getting the public on board with cutting car-use.
«Barcelona introduced free travel for three years for those who got rid of polluting cars,»
California gives Waymo the green light to expand robotaxi operations
Waymo is now allowed to drive on highways in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Mobility—all under 10 minutes.
Look Both Ways - JSTOR Daily
With the arrival of the automobile, governments had to scramble to find ways to protect and control pedestrian use of the road.
What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
We Need a Department of Sidewalks
Our walkways are for running, strolling, dining, delivering, protesting, loitering. It’s time for cities to give them some attention.
A new generation of airships is taking to the skies
Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for…
Eugene Debs Really Loved Bicycles
Here’s a summer story you never knew you needed: an 1895 article by Eugene Debs waxing poetic about bicycles, which he said would “liberate millions” and bring “the enrapturing panorama of nature” to…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Mobility.
The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it…
Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)
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The new car batteries that could power the electric vehicle revolution
Researchers are experimenting with different designs that could lower costs, extend vehicle ranges and offer other improvements.
Paris Pulled Off the Dream of Many City Dwellers Around the World. It’s Been Thrilling—and Complicated.
To twist a French idiom, now it’s vélo, boulot, dodo—bike, work, sleep.
Liberal Visions and Boring Machines
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into…
Thought Leaders
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