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Transportist: October 2019

David Levinson
Sep 26, 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.

Jobs

  • Multiple Academic Opportunities with the School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney

Master of Transport

  • Masterclass for Master of Transport, October 8

Transportist (the blog)

  • The Precarity of Our Situation

  • Observations of Melbourne

  • Late Democracy

  • Gradial, or the Unreasonable Network

  • Sydney Could Go Dutch | CityHub

WalkSydney

  • WalkSydney’s List of Aims

  • Submission: NSW Road Rules

  • Submission: Pulse of Greater Sydney

  • Membership

Transport Findings

  • Predicting a vehicle’s distance from short duration data

Conferences

  • World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research

News & Opinion

  • Transit and Microtransit

    • Metros and Marshrutkas – taking a ride in Tbilisi: part 1

    • Stuttgart 21’s Impending Capacity Problems and Timed Connections

    • Don't fence me in: commuters rail against tram stop safety barriers

    • The Future is Not Retro

    • Why are fewer people riding the Underground? The reason is not what you think

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

    • Calls for congestion charging to be introduced to de-clog city roads

    • Does TTI Underestimate Historic Traffic Levels (They are at it again, this response is from 2013, but still basically right)

    • Drive-thru brothels: why cities are building 'sexual infrastructure'

    • Lane Ends, Merge Right: 10 (More!) Redesign Ideas for the W4-2 Road Sign

    • Paris is testing 'noise radar' that will automatically ticket loud cars

    • London 20mph plan: TfL green light plan after consultation

  • Vehicle Automation

    • Navigating through Pedestrians (video)

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

    • The Impacts of Uber and Lyft on Transportation (video)

  • Electrification, Energy

    • Australia is the runaway global leader in building new renewable energy

    • EV Startup Canoo Debuts First Subscription-Only Vehicle

    • The new normal: Electric vehicle sales double in Australia, petrol car sales slump

    • San Francisco makes $2.5 billion offer for PG&E electric system

    • Saudi Arabia oil output takes major hit after apparent drone attacks claimed by Yemen rebels 

    Bikes etc.

    • New Miami Hurricane Hazard: Dockless Scooters as Projectiles

    • Melbourne blue bike share scheme scrapped after poor patronage

      • Is ending Melbourne Bike Share the right decision?

    • Bird shutters bike lane program due to misuse of funds

    • Pros And Cons Of Banning Cars In Cities

    • The Unsettling Rise of the Urban Narc App

    • Fewer cars in Sydney CBD opens way for cycleway, more pedestrian space

    • How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

  • Curbs and Footpaths and Crosswalks

    • The FARS Side: Distracted Pedestrians [do not cause many crashes]

    • A city is only as accessible as its sidewalks. This map shows DC’s are often blocked.

  • Land Use

    • Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast: Episode 246: Access as a Metric

    • Takeaway chain El Jannah ready to rip down Sydney’s ‘chicken curtain’

    • Flexible working, the neglected congestion-busting solution for our cities

    • Will the Western Sydney Aerotropolis really deliver on jobs?

    • Sydney’s moment of truth: In a decade, Sydney will be home to an extra 1.3 million people. How we accommodate them is causing angst in our suburbs and presents a huge challenge to government.

    • How Radial is General Travel in Melbourne

    • Caltex [Gas Stations] Divests 50 ‘Apartment-Ready’ Sites

  • Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight

    • U.S. threatening to pull out of Universal Postal Union

    • Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame

  • Intercity Trains

    • Virgin Trains USA to begin work on $4bn Las Vegas to LA rail link in 2020

    • 'There's No Such Thing As Cold, Hard Reality': Meet The Hyperloop's Truest Believers

  • Aviation & Space

    • Lithium Metal Batteries Power Drones For 70 Percent Longer

    • A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)

  • Miscellany:

    • Maine to allow ranked votes in general presidential election

    • Speaking Out Against Student Evals

    • The Rise of Peer Review: Melinda Baldwin on the History of Refereeing at Scientific Journals and Funding Bodies

    • Almost one-third fewer birds in North America than in 1970

  • People

    • 2020 TRB Annual Meeting: Sue McNeil, 2019 Roy W. Crum Award Recipient

Research by Others

  • Boeing, Geoff (2019) Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy,  Applied Network Science

  • Hale, Chris (2019) The Transit Transformation Australia Needs

  • Hendrigan, Cole (2019) A Future of Polycentric Cities

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 (3rd edition). (2017) By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek. (Book 1 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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