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Transport Theory
Transport Theory focuses on modes of transportation such as high-speed rail, hybrid cars, electric vehicles, boats and airplanes and the systems, infrastructure and innovation that support them.
Channtal Fleischfresser
Channtal Fleischfresser
Contributing Editor, Transportation
Channtal Fleischfresser has worked for The Economist, WNET/Channel 13, Al Jazeera English, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is based in New York.
Channtal Fleischfresser
Channtal does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Megan Kenna
Megan Kenna
Contributing Editor, Transportation
Megan Kenna is a freelance writer based in Brussels, Belgium. She has written for Forbes.com, The Baltic Times and Public Service Europe. Previously, she worked in maritime law, volunteered for the United Nations and taught English in China. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University.
Megan Kenna
Megan does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
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