
"Incorporating plastic waste into asphalt pavement and other types of infrastructure projects shows some limited promise ... but those efforts are hampered by an American recycling system that lacks clear economic and environmental goals and suffers from a dearth of scientific and engineering information," notes Inside Climate News. This was one of many news articles covering the latest TRB consensus report.
Following TRB's Automated Road Transportation Symposium, The Mobility Podcast aired a discussion about the event in San Francisco. In other automated-vehicle news, TRB's Transportation Research Record published a journal article finding that people who were initially excited about AVs became less so after actually using one. It also found that people were more likely to do activities like watching the road and looking out the window while in an AV than they expected.
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