Public Transportation

Uber’s largest European market, London, has stripped its license to operate due to passenger safety concerns. Currently, Uber has filed an appeal to this ruling, therefore, allowing Uber drivers and passengers to use the ride sharing service for the time being. Transport of London (TfL), a…

Small electronic scooters, also known as the Bird or Lime, are becoming the next phase of becoming more green for our environments. These e-scooters are promoted world-wide, including Paris, Tel Aviv, and Buenos Aires. Although this new movement is a great substitution for cleaning our air, but are…

Rideshare apps like Lyft and Uber have global operation centers that monitor the world for crisis situations, paying particular attention to how their role as rideshare services plays into the larger picture of disaster response. Lyft recently published its disaster response plans as one of their…

When natural disasters occur, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, public transportation systems that depend on railways are subject to extensive damage. It is important to recover the railways; transportation authorities around the world have improved their response techniques by learning from…

Since September 2018, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has been collecting information about individual dockless vehicles such as scooters and electric bikes through a digital tool called MDS, or Mobility Data Specification. MDS information plays a pivotal role in shaping policy…

On the morning of March 10th, Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 heading out from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya crashed after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers on board. Victims came from over 35 different countries. This is the second Boeing 737 plane to go down following the crash of the…

--CNN A brand new Boeing 737 Max crashed within minutes of take off, killing all 157 people on board. The Ethiopian Airlines crash was the second incident involving the aircraft in less than six months. After the first incident with Lion Air, Boeing identified the problem to be the new safety…

On Saturday afternoon, a Hamburg man drove a van into a crowd of people, injuring twenty people and killing two. Emergency responders initially dispatched a bomb squad to ensure that there were no explosives within the van. Although there was a general concern about the possibility of this being a…

A newly installed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed on Thursday morning, killing several people. In addition to the pedestrians walking on the bridge, eight cars were trapped under the rubble of the collapsed bridge. As rescue efforts are still underway, the National…

In South Carolina, an early Sunday morning collision of a Amtrak train and a freight train has left two dead and 116 people injured. Emergency responders reported that those injured mostly suffered from broken bones and minor cuts. Following the collision, an estimated 5,000 gallons of fuel was…

On Wednesday morning a train carrying Republican members of Congress collided with a garbage truck, killing one person and injuring five others. Some of the medically trained Congressional members were able to assist with immediate aid for the injured. While the cause of the collision has yet to be…

Early Monday morning, an Amtrak train derailed and crashed onto the I-5 highway, killing several people and injuring dozens more. The cause of the crash is still undetermined, but this was the train's first run on a new schedule. Authorities have been quick to respond, as the National Transportation…

The Washington Post- By Amanda Erickson