Virgin Galactic crash ousts Branson as Hyperloop chair
In October 2018, Richard Branson stepped down as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, the startup he had backed less than a year earlier. The immediate trigger was a fatal Virgin...
Transport
Examines airport expansions, stadium economics, aviation fuels, high-speed rail, supply chains, and hydrogen trucking.
Joby, Archer, Wisk race to certify eVTOL by 2025
By early 2025, not a single electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft has carried a paying passenger. The industry that promised to reshape urban mobility by mid-decade remains a collection...
Hyundai shipped first hydrogen truck to Europe in 2020
In July 2020, Hyundai Motor Company shipped the first 10 units of the Xcient Fuel Cell to Switzerland. The move made it the world's first mass-produced fuel-cell heavy-duty truck. The...
Hurricane Florence cost $24B in supply chain losses
Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018, then stalled over the Carolinas and dumped catastrophic rainfall. Moody's Analytics put the total cost between $38...
HSR boosts economies: growth, property, productivity
High-speed rail rewrites economic geography. When a four-hour trip becomes one hour, labor pools merge, supply chains reconfigure, and land values shift. Some corridors generate measurable new GDP. Others mostly...
E-fuels face high costs to scale for aviation
Electrofuels are synthetic kerosene made by combining green hydrogen with captured carbon dioxide. They are chemically identical to Jet A-1. A Boeing 777 could fill up with synthetic kerosene and...
Did Tottenham's Stadium Deliver on Its Economic Promises?
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened on 3 April 2019 with a price tag of between £1 billion and £1.2 billion and a promise to regenerate one of London's poorest boroughs. The...
Heathrow Third Runway: Supreme Court Reinstates ANPS in 2020
On 16 December 2020, the UK Supreme Court overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that had declared the government's Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) for Heathrow expansion unlawful. The decision...
