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June 26, 2017

Do electric vehicles actually increase emissions?

In Beijing, the capital of China, there are more than 5.6 million vehicles now which emit nearly one million tons of air pollutants per year. In 2016, there were 39 heavy-polluted days because of high levels of PM 2.5 (particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns). Vehicle emissions account for more than 30 percent of local…

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June 20, 2017

Prime Now or Prime Later?

Recently Amazon Prime Now has come up in a number of conversations I have been involved with. One group complained that they were running out of beer, and rather than going to get some they joked about ordering some on Prime Now. For those who have not yet heard of Amazon’s Prime Now, it is…

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June 7, 2017

The Chicken-Egg Problem of Transit and Density

Yanbo Ge As two cities with similar regional importance in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle and Vancouver BC have a lot of similarities when it comes to climate and economic status. The two even hold pretty much the same city population (both a little more than 600,000 people). But Vancouver is much denser on average than…

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