Crypto News: Transportation research stalled

When University of Texas urban planning professor Alex Karner got an email from the the Transportation Research Board ordering him to stop work on his research project studying equitable access to goods and services, he felt his heart sink.

Transportation research like Karner's, usually nonpartisan and uncontroversial, is under threat from the Trump administration, which is pulling funding for such projects. Other federally supported projects have also been canceled, experts have been fired, and datasets have disappeared. As TRB faces existential questions about its future as a bridge between academia and government, experts worry US progress on improving its mobility network will stall. Read more from David Zipper today on CityLab: The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Transportation Research

— Magdalena del Valle

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