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Transportist: August 2019

David Levinson
Jul 30, 2019
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Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers.  As always you can follow along at the  transportist.org or on Twitter.

Access Across Australia

  • Access Across Australia (article in The Conversation) (full report)

Transportist (the blog)

  • The State of Transportation Education (upcoming presentation)

  • Some Observations of China (2019)

  • 1953 Detroit Metropolitan Travel Survey, Data Discovered

  • Transport Rankings

WalkSydney

  • There are many new posts on the site, from the organisation where I now preside. You should check WalkSydney out, and if you are in Greater Sydney, you should join.

Transport Findings

  • Measuring the Added Effectiveness of Using Detailed Spatial and Temporal Data in Generating Accessibility Measures by Boer Cui, Emily Grisé, Anson Stewart, Ahmed El-Geneidy

  • Perceived Versus Actual Waiting Time: A Case Study Among Cyclists in Enschede, the Netherlands by Tiago Fioreze, Benjamin Groenewolt , Johan Koolwaaij, Karst Geurs

  • Identifying Twin Travelers Using Ridesourcing Trip Data by Nicolas Chiabaut, Cyril Veve

Media

  • I was on FBi 94.5 radio Backchat program at 9:30 am June 29 to discuss changes and improvements to Sydney’s public transport.

  • I was briefly quoted in Melo, Frederick (2019) Corbata offers an alternative to Uber and Lyft, if it can get licensed in St. Paul. St. Paul Pioneer Press

Conferences

  • I attended COTA International Conference of Transport Professionals in Nanjing (and a pre-conference in Beijing). It’s a good event, and obviously, there is a lot of action in transport in China. I presented on the End of Traffic and the Future of Access, and a General Theory of Access.

Papers by Us

  • Carrion, Carlos and David Levinson (2019) Overestimation and underestimation of travel time on commute trips: GPS vs. self- reporting. Urban Science. 3(3), 70 [doi]

  • Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Primal and Dual Access. Geographical Analysis.  (accepted and in press) [doi]

News

  • Transit and Microtransit

    • Seoul

      • A Short History of the Seoul Subway System

      • Opinion: Seoul & Incheon (South Korea) Metro System – Part 1

    • Transit crowdedness trends from around the world, according to Google Maps

    • Sydney eyes BYD electric buses to silence noisy inner west

    • How Unpredictable is your Subway Commute

    • All-night public transport hasn’t reduced alcohol-related harm in Melbourne

    • Technician's control room error causes metro trains to shut down

  • Automated, Autonomous, Driverless, and Self-Driving Vehicles, and Semi-Autonomous Systems

    • Self-Driving Trucks Will Carry Mail in U.S. for the First Time

    • Self-driving shuttle crashed in Las Vegas because manual controls were locked away

    • Driverless Cars Are Taking Longer Than We Expected. Here’s Why. [As I noted, who is “we”?] [AVs are now the Trough of Dispond in the Gartner Hype Cycle]

    • $500 Lidar From Luminar Could Move Autonomous Driving Forward

    • Protean's all-in-one drive, suspension and steering modules spin 360 degrees

    • First injury on Utah's driverless shuttle during unexpected stop

  • Human-Driven Vehicles, Signs, Signals, Sensors, and Markings, and Roads

    • Are speed limiters the best way to reduce road deaths?

    • The traffic solution politicians should stop running away from

    • Road death toll should include victims of vehicle emissions: report

    • Costs are Rising, US Highway Edition

  • Shared Vehicles/Ride-sharing/Ride-hailing/Taxis/Car Sharing

    • We subscribe to movies and music, why not transport?

    • Growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving

    • ReachNow shutters car-rental and ride-hailing services in Seattle, Portland

  • Human-Powered Vehicles/Bikes/Pedestrians/Scooters/eBikes/Last-Mile/First-Mile/Last-Meter/First-Meter/etc.

    • A new autonomous delivery vehicle is designed to operate like a bicycle

    • Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds

    • In Australia, hacked Lime scooters spew racism and profanity

    • Hellobike plans to lead China’s two-wheeler transport market as bike-sharing rivals struggle

  • Curbs and Footpaths

    • ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier

    • The death of the sidewalk

    • Walking and cycling to work makes commuters happier and more productive

    • Key and Peele: Walk Button

  • Electrification, Energy, Environment

    • For the first time ever renewables beat coal in the US

    • More people have access to electricity than ever before, but the world is falling short of its sustainable energy goals

    • Just a matter of when': the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solar

  • Land Use

    • Australian city workers’ average commute has blown out to 66 minutes a day. How does yours compare?

  • Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight

    • Postmates has explored a sale to Uber or DoorDash instead of going public

  • Intercity Trains

    • From Bangkok to Beijing

  • Maps, Fonts, Visualizations

    • A comprehensive list of Network Evolution “movies” (Twitter thread)

    • History: “The Power of Trees” (1855)

    • Memorial to Edward Johnston

    • 7 Tube Maps Only The Colour Blind Will Truly Appreciate

    • 19th Century Chart of Cities’ Distances from Washington DC

  • Equity and Justice

    • Indiana Is Still Arguing That It's Constitutional To Seize Your Car for Driving 5 MPH Over the Speed Limit

    • Post-it notes are the new weapon of choice for Hong Kong’s protesters

  • The Smart Cities Fantasy

    • I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities by Shoshanna Saxe

  • Miscellany:

    • The oldest surviving banjo recording

    • 500 years ago, China destroyed its world-dominating navy because its political elite was afraid of free trade

    • The day Earth had a near-miss with a 'city-killer' asteroid

Research by Others

  • Boeing, G. 2018. “Street Network Models and Measures for Every U.S. City, County, Urbanized Area, Census Tract, and Zillow-Defined Neighborhood.” Urban Science, 3 (1), 28. doi: 10.3390/urbansci3010028

  • Investments in biking routes improve access to jobs in US metros (Access Across America: Biking 2017 was released by the Accessibility Observatory (northern hemisphere). The innovation is considering low and medium stress streets as restricted bicycling networks.)

Books

  • A Political Economy of Access. (2019) By David M. Levinson and David A. King (Book 4 in the Access Quartet)

  • Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. (2018) By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. (Book 3 in the Access Quartet)

  • Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (2016) by David Levinson. (Book 2 in the Access Quartet)

  • The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape. (2017) By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek. (Book 4 in the Access Quartet)

  • Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus (2018) by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.

  • The Transportation Experience: Second Edition Garrison, William and Levinson, David (2014)

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