Transportation/Travel

New research exposes security risk for e-scooters and ridersCredit: Photo by MusicFox Fx on Unsplash (San Antonio -- January 27, 2020) Micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, zip in and out of traffic. In San Antonio alone, over…

To mitigate climate change and safeguard ecosystems, we need to make drastic changes in our consumption and transport behaviors. A new IIASA study shows how even minor changes to available infrastructure can trigger tipping points in the…

Finding ways to faster flightCredit: UT Arlington The idea of speeding through the atmosphere at many times the speed of sound carries great appeal for commercial aircraft carriers. The technology needed to build such hypersonic…

Arctic researchers want you to know that each metric ton of CO2 causes a loss of 3 m2 of September sea-ice areaCredit: Photo: Lis Allaart We all know we should fly less as a way to reduce our individual and collective effect on the global…

Esports organisations look to hit the target with player welfare by optimise sleep Esports has developed from relative obscurity into a billion dollar global industry, with an estimated 453 million viewers worldwide in 2019 - and its set…

Device designed for security systems can be built smaller, without the need for an active, energy-extensive doorwayCredit: Huan Liu WASHINGTON, January 21, 2020 -- Most traditional electromagnetic methods for detecting hidden metal…

Improved ship utilization rates and investments in environmentally sustainable technologies for enhanced energy efficiency would significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions within navigation. A recent study carried out in the Laboratory…

Credit: Queen's University Belfast Airport security queues could be slashed and screening for weapons could become much more effective after Queen's University Belfast researchers have been awarded £1 million to develop a…

Columbia researchers use game theory to help policy makers create liability rules for accidents involving self-driving cars and those driven by peopleCredit: Sharon Di and Xu Chen/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--January 13, 2020--A…

54 million people injured in road accidents in 2017, resulting in 1.2 million deaths; disability from road injuries frequently due to limb fractures and traumatic brain injury; men ages 25-29 are most likely to be injured SEATTLE - Road…