Chattanooga’s SmartBus project has produced significant savings and made buying tickets and finding buses easier than ever. Our new report — including these 14 case studies — on smarter mobility demonstrates how existing and emerging technologies can squeeze more capacity from over-burdened highways, help commuters avoid traffic delays and expand and improve transportation options, all while saving money and creating jobs.

Our transportation decisions have a huge impact — positive or negative — on the health and well-being of all Americans. This idea that health and transportation are connected is gaining traction all across the country due in large part to groups (and T4 America partners) like the American Public Health Association, Prevention Institute, Partnership for Prevention and Health by Design. An influential doctor wrote a smart op-ed for an Eastern Tennessee newspaper this week asking some pointed questions on behalf of Tennesseans.

Drivers in the Southeast face severe gas shortages after Hurricanes Ike and Gustav whomped the region’s oil refineries, bringing long lines, soaring prices, and rising tension at the pump. (Grist — Sara Barz)

For those in the Nashville region who are tired of sitting in traffic jams, draining their savings at the pump, and breathing heavily polluted air, an efficient, clean, and adequately funded mass transit system could be the answer. (The City Paper)