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Transportist: September 2019

David Levinson
Aug 29, 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.

Transportist (the blog)

  • Foreground: New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned:

  • The State of Transport Education in Australia

WalkSydney

  • Submission: Redfern Station Southern Concourse

  • Submission: Connected Liverpool 2050: Draft Local Strategic Planning Statement: A Land Use Vision to 2050

Transport Findings

  • Jeff Allen and Steven Farber (2019) Benchmarking Transport Equity in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)

Media

  • Interview about Access Across Australia report by Jane Slack-Smith. Facebook

Conferences

  • I am presenting at the National Roads and Traffic Expo in Melbourne on September 18 at 15:30 about Designing and Evolving the 30-Minute City.

Papers by Us

  • Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring Full Cost Accessibility by Auto. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 12(1) 649-672. [doi]

News

  • Transit and Microtransit

    • What is “Microtransit” For?

    • Sydneysiders stop to watch history roll along new-look George Street

    • What would it take to build a tram network the size of Melbourne’s?

    • Random: South-East Sydney Light Rail, Sydney Metro North-West & Other Unrelated Musings

    • Sydney Trains commences Dwell Track trial to ease crowding, reduce delays

    • Do QR Codes work for subways

    • Newstart Opal card? Push to lower fares for those living on $40 a day

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

    • 'Worse than Cahill Expressway': new WestConnex overpass condemned

    • More motorists than forecast on M4

    • Sydney gets ramp meters (50 years after Minneapolis - St. Paul)

    • California Man's Plot to Avoid Tickets With 'NULL' Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in Fines

    • Congestion is not the enemy

    • Restrict Twice-As-Deadly SUVs In U.K. Cities, Urge Transport Data Scientists

    • What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?

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

    • SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online

  • Curbs and Footpaths and Crosswalks

    • Walking On Painted Keys: Creative Crosswalks Meet Government Resistance

    • The Cult of the Fantasy Pedestrian

  • Land Use

    • Australia's building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report

    • ‘Very risky’: Expert fears over plans to move traffic-choked, overcrowded city [Jakarta to a new site for Indonesia’s capital]

  • Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight

    • How Hong Kong’s shopping malls became a new arena in the fight for democracy

  • Intercity Trains

    • Too good to be true? Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste

  • Aviation

    • Booming Travel Is Transforming Asian Airports Into Mini-Cities

  • Miscellany:

    • The new season of the ABC TV documentary about Australia’s favourite infrastructure agency, the National Building Authority, Utopia is out.

    • Citizen Tram (1960s era film about Melbourne’s Public Transport)

Research by Others

  • Marcus Credé, Sylvia G. Roch, Urszula M. Kieszczynka Class Attendance in College: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship of Class Attendance With Grades and Student Characteristics

  • Dill, Jennifer: Bicycle research 2019: More than helmets and head injuries

  • Peter Spearritt (2014) Why Melbourne Kept Its Trams

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 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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