Floyd Coleman, right, helping Mark Daldegan inside Liberal Senior Center’s minivan outside of Dillons. Senior citizens who want to live in the same rural towns where they grew up face a growing ...

As we approach the heart of summer, families around the country are planning travel vacations. With gas prices approaching $5 per gallon in some places, Americans are looking for anything to decrease ...

We examine the problem of determining an optimal schedule for a fleet of vehicles used to transport handicapped persons in an urban area. The problem is a generalization of the well-known ...

Traffic congestion is the top problem facing the city's transportation infrastructure, a recent survey of 1,700 residents found. But it's a problem that cannot be solved by simply building wider roads ...

Right now, most self-driving cars–like those being developed by Google or Uber–can only operate in very limited urban areas of the United States. In part, that’s because these cars need extremely ...

Shadow prices derived from the optimal dual solution of a transportation problem give the rate at which the optimal cost changes when a warehouse capacity or market requirement is changed ceteris ...

In hindsight, it sounds like an obvious PR maneuver: Public agencies see a problem, and private corporations promise a solution. It’s not at all difficult to remember that following the rapid growths ...

The most important problem for Anne Arundel residents is transportation, closely followed by growth and overpopulation, according to the fall edition of the biannual Anne Arundel Community College ...

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...