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Culture Wars Nonsense around the HSR and a Technocratic Answer « Sustainable Cities and Transport

Alfred Kahn, Chief Architect of Airline Deregulation, Dies at 93

Disney Tackles Major Theme Park Problem: Lines

Why Everyone Else's Line Always Seems to Move Faster than Yours

ACS Data Dive: Twin Cities Mode Share Changes

Separate is inherently unequal: the Cul-de-Snow

Did public transportation send Cliff Lee to Philly?

Transportation Convergence: Masdar City PRT system

Debunking Theories of a Terrorist Power Grab

Mapping America -- Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com

Isle Of Tune Lets You Compose Music By Um, City Planning

Sidewalks of shame

From Spokes to Sprockettes: A History of Women and the Bicycle

Stadia Standings and Structural Failure

18th Century Congestion Charging

The New York subway-map wars, continued

The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet

Conversation with an Engineer

Foodtubes

Chinese Academy of Sciences: High-Speed Rail Construction Unsustainable

Current and Future Publishing Practices Forum - JTLU

Train to nowhere - On Cortes

Remembering when the Henry George Club ran Pittsburgh

A Short History of Intersection

Traffic signal pre-emption failure.

Old Hecker dealership turns to transit

Chance of Dying From Airport Backscatter Radiation About the Same as Chance of Getting Killed by Terrorists

Still Waiting: Will America's Next-Gen Bullet Trains Ever Leave the Station? | Popular Science

Forecasts of Central Corridor LRT Boardings

Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars to jump-start new era of humans in space

Northstar rail line's birthday wish: more riders

A Bet | Bottom-up

Nice Ride program tops first-year goals

Livability and All That

The High-Speed Case for State Control of Transportation Funding | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Overcoming Bias : The Auto-Auto Race

Costs and Benefits - Strong Towns Blog

Paying to Make Red Lights Turn Green

Daylight Savings Time

Metro area is in line for color-coded transit

Smart travel card to ease global travel

A nice pro- NYC propaganda film

The wave overcomes Oberstar - House Races Live - POLITICO.com

50 years of traffic wardens - Telegraph

Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China

Jason Hong's Confabulations: Four Common Misconceptions of Graduate School

BA attacks U.S. airport security demands

The Rest Of The Story On Robot Cars

Google's Self-Driving Car

Ubercab, Now Just Uber, Shares Cease And Desist Orders

Public Participation and Planning

Portion of Nobles County bridge collapses

Study: Flight delays cost fliers billions - CNN.com

147 Vehicles and Pedestrians in 4:18

Troubles at TriMet ?

"In the future it will be forbidden for safety reasons for people to drive cars,"

Decade of the Telecommute

Wind Power Backbone Sought Off Atlantic Coast

Trolley problem

Why Robot Cars Matter

Skylifter airship could carry 150-ton buildings | KurzweilAI

Commercial electric cars replace transport pods plan

Electric cars: Highly charged motoring

Roger K. Lewis - Are trolley lines more than just a fashionable bit of nostalgia?

Smarter Than You Think - Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

85 vehicles and pedestrians in 3:11

Effect of Street Pattern on Road Safety

Schoolhouse rock for transportation funding

Transportation Theorists Rally Around Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Tax

Road Pricing in the Netherlands Dead Again

Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds

Matthew Yglesias » Land Value Tax

Should All Public Transit Be Free?

How to obtain truth in forecasting ...

A Tale of Two Ridership Forecasts

Google CEO on Cars ...

The dynamics of fare and frequency choice in urban transit

Road Service Providers - Establishing a market in Roadspace.

Land Use-Transportation Modeling with UrbanSim - Vol 3, No 2 (2010) of the Journal of Transport and Land Use

I-35W bridge collapse had complex effect on metropolitan traffic flows, researchers find

Driven Apart

The Roads Taken: Theory and Evidence on Route Choice in the wake of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse and Reconstruction

Segway owner Jimi Heselden dies after riding one of his machines off cliff

AASHTO Center for Excellence in Project Finance—Congressional Finance Forum

Expensive parking for expensive cars

Shweeb

Maximizing the Diagonal, An Hypothesis About Alternative Paths

Dropping Kilometers From Highway's Signs Divides Arizona

'I'm Not Going to Be Interrogated As a Pre-Condition of Re-Entering My Own Country' - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Using Crowds, and GPS, to Chart Roadkill

Study identifies critical "traffic engineer" of the nervous system

Obama Calls for $50 Billion Public Works Plan

Driving a message home with an optical illusion

Man killed by Northstar commuter train

Review of Gridlock: Why we're stuck in traffic and what to do about it by Randal O'Toole

xkcd: Ahead Stop

Thousands protest over new Stuttgart rail station

International System Safety Conference

Kremlin Relents, for Now, to Foes of Russia Highway

In India, Many Potholes and Not Enough Engineers

China's 60-mile traffic jam could last for weeks

Parking Lots Help Predict Earnings

With a Sit-Down Stand, a Briton Kicks the Boot

Greg's Cable Map

Life without traffic lights

Motoring enthusiast builds 367mph bus - Telegraph

An Agent-Based Model of Worker and Job Matching

Impact of Light Rail Implementation on Labor Market Accessibility: A Transportation Equity Perspective

World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research

NTS 2009

Location, Regional Accessibility and Price Effects: Evidence from Twin Cities Home Sales

Franklin/East River Parkway five way intersection

Imagine the Mississippi: 30 Ways to Transform the Riverfront in Minneapolis

Are Bicycles a Plot to Surrender the United States of American to UN Control?

Why choose the new I-35W Mississippi River Bridge?

Network Structure and Metropolitan Mobility

Value of Travel Time Reliability: A review of current evidence

A Positive Theory of Network Connectivity

Network Structure and Activity Spaces

The Explosions of Every Nuclear Bomb to 1998

Are downtown two-way streets better?

Cities tackle traffic head-on with commuter options

3-D Pavement Art:

Semi-Quinquennial

Tolling Scofflaws - 1859

Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

On The Path To Pike's Peak: New Video of Stanford's Robot Car

Why we still love board games

INSTR

Italy to China in driverless vehicles

How super? What cyclists make of superhighways

Integrative Freight Demand Management in the New York City Metropolitan Area

Audio for my Midmorning appearance on Nimble Cities

How I Saved My Company: Mile Meter

Graduate tax to replace tuition fees for university students

Amtrak as a Subway Map

Midmorning

The state of infrastructure

Nimble Cities

Quick links: Software to "help" travelers.

Appointment of Director for Center for Transportation Studies

Money for motorized recreation too much, some Minnesotans say | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

Can the MTA Revolutionize the City's Bus System?

Traffic study sees shades of gray in yellow lights

HSR's energy/emissions promise and peril

The Quest for the Holy Rail

Slow Train Coming « Jon-Erik Lappano

Group to show car that can be driven by the blind

Microsoft tech allows sticking batteries in any way you want

Peak car?

Review of "Bay Area/California High-Speed Rail Ridership and Revenue Forecasting Study

Street Fail

Optical Flow Switching

Intercity Bus: Jefferson Lines

Nice Ride Minnesota launches

Tales Of Two Cities: Love Thy Neighbor

Standardization and Coordination Externalities

The Elevator Button Problem

Live map of London Underground trains

Traffic lights for the color blind

Commuting-When is it worth it? | Ask MetaFilter

Study: Video conferencing could save $19B a year

Low Expectations for High-Speed Rail at NYU Conference

OPML - List of Transportation Journals and List of Transportation blogs

Journal of Transport and Land Use 3(1)

Is This the Craziest Bridge Ever Designed?

High Speed Rail: Leveraging Federal Investment Locally - NYU Wagner Events

All Those Numbers: Logistics, Territory and Walmart

The City is Flatter

The Iron Laws of Network Cost Scaling

xkcd: Long Light

Economic Development Impacts of High Speed Rail

Value of Reliability: High Occupancy Toll Lanes, General Purpose Lanes, and Arterials

Street grids

The traveler costs of unplanned transport network disruptions: An activity-based modeling approach

Phone Smart - With Transit Map Apps, No Refolding Required - NYTimes.com

Modeling the Minneapolis Skyway Network

Texting While (Not) Driving

Gasoline Prices and Their Relationship to Drunk-Driving Crashes

How do Roads Spread AIDS in Africa? A Critique of the Received Policy Wisdom

Archive Gallery: Cities of the Future

Electric Car Bills on the Hill: 10 Things You Should Know

High-speed rail saves time, but price gives pause

The quest to design a better stop sign

Traffic Paint Shortage Threatens Roadwork: FTA Commissioner Advocates Paint

462 - Gridding London « Strange Maps

IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines

Fundamentals of Transportation - Featured Book

Access to Destinations, Phase 3: Measuring Accessibility by Automobile

Mission considers road fee that would link properties, street use

American Airlines Struggles as Rivals Merge

Value Capture for DC Streetcars

London's New Routemaster

Better Place Closes Massive $350M Round

Virginia applies to Feds for OK to toll I-95 near NC border

Carhacking

Shut it down and fix it

Mayor's Transport Strategy | Greater London Authority

Clock is ticking for Australia's bikini-clad Meter Maids - Australasia, World - The Independent

The PPP is the scandal no one noticed

On China's Infrastructure Investment

The Trouble with High-Speed Rail

Congraduations

This time is different

More on HSR

Composite Twin Cities Future Urban Transit Network

Saint Paul Radial Lines

Getting the ball in the hoop is like commuting to work

Apple like railroads in 1800s

Should the US government buy the freight railroads, take what it wants, and sell them.

Transport, Land Use, and Value presentation

Metrics - Driving Shifts Into Reverse

Minneapolis Orbital Line

Saint Paul Circle Line

Minneapolis Circle Line

Nick Clegg @ University of Minnesota

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 7: Summary and conclusions

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 6: Nuisance effects

New York City Subways: Interactive Ridership Map

New Way To Guide A Car: With Your Eyes, Not Hands

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 5: Economic Development

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 4: Land value creation

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 3: Accessibility

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 2: Hubs and Spokes

The train that never stops at a station (You Tube)

Some thoughts on high-speed rail - part 1: Introduction

Unproductive investments

In New York: Transport, Land Use, and Value

Small Railroads in Trouble

A puzzling palimpsest of perceived precepts

Returning streetcars to the Twin Cities

Road pricing when? Old fleet, new fleet.

How many jobs? Roads, bridges and the stimulus

Spirit Airlines to try $45 fee for a carry-on bag

International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

Look, no hands: Cars that drive better than you

Networks and Intelligence (are cities brains?)

Architecture - Plan Calls for Rebuilding Haiti Away From Port-au-Prince

Number theory

Policy reform in federal transportation policy: student perspectives ...

Ramp Metering and Freeway Bottleneck Capacity

Two Notes on Infrastructure and Going to Hell - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

New York airport jets 'directed by child'

The Flattening Internet Topology: Natural Evolution, Unsightly Barnacles or Contrived Collapse?

Can't Cross A Virtual Wall by Hanyoung Lee » Yanko Design

Despite lack of MnDOT funds, 'burbs push projects

Wiki-Chair and beyond

A New Traffic Sign: "Take Turns"

Minneapolis limits street parking until April 1

One hour of driving could reduce life by 20 minutes [or 7.2 minutes]

Bus ridership drops amid lost jobs, lower gas prices

President's USDOT Budget Proposal

Transport Reviews 30th Anniversary

First slugs, now oil

Dynamist Blog: H.G. Wells Pans <i>Metropolis</i>

Observations: Slime mold validates efficiency of Tokyo rail network

Designing highways the slime mould way

Hong Kongers protest $7.1B high-speed rail link to China, question legislature's democracy | StarTribune.com

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