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We found that there were two to three per cent more crashes within one to 10 kilometres downstream of each DMS during the week fatality messages were shown.

Roadside Safety Messages Increase Crashes by Distracting Drivers

Jonathan Hall and University of Toronto

On July 4, 1902, Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine War over. If De Bevoise’s calculations are right, it had claimed more lives than the Civil War.

How to Hide an Empire

Daniel Immerwahr

The obvious challenge in setting up real-time tracking and arrival for Baltimore’s Metro Subway was that over ⅓ of the 15.4-mile heavy rail line and eight of its 14 stations are underground so the MTA’s past approaches for GPS wouldn’t work here.

The MTA Now Has Real-Time Tracking on All of Its Modes. Here’s How They Did It.

Alex Holt

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