Bob Graves

Nowhere is that more true than within regions. It calls for an integrated approach to planning and funding. Bob Graves | January 28, 2015 Challenges to building and maintaining infrastructure vary greatly across our regions. The ongoing drought in California poses a markedly different problem compared to record-setting downpours and flooding in other states.

Escalating urban traffic congestion is calling out for a fix. What's the solution? Most likely a combination of existing public transit and a well-integrated digital ecosystem that seamlessly connects all other transportation services with it. Narrowly focused, unintegrated solutions aren't the answer, as a recent study of the impact of ride-hailing services by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California-Davis makes abundantly clear.

In the race to replace the internal combustion engine that propels most of the world's cars, trucks and buses with vehicles powered by electricity, one country stands out, and it might not be one that immediately comes to mind. It's not China, even though the sheer number of new plug-in electric vehicles sold there in 2017, 605,500, was the highest in the world, accounting for 2.6 percent of all vehicles purchased in the country.