Sitemap - 2011 - Transportist

JTLU 4(3)

Linklist: December 28, 2011

Behind-The-Scenes: Your Bag's Journey On Delta

Linklist: December 22, 2011

The New Minneapolis Plan

Linklist: December 19, 2011

(39) Highway Cost Overruns

Linklist: December 17, 2911

The Hive Mind predicts transportation futures

Building a Better Gas Tax

Beyond the Bowl Championship Series: Realigning College Football Playoffs

Traffic Forecasting - Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results

Linklist: December 13, 2011

Transportation still costs too much

Linklist: December 9, 2011

Deconstructing Busytown

Volume or Flow

In defense of zoning

The Commanding Heights

Data caps a "crude and unfair tool" for easing online congestion

streets.mn on Facebook.

Is transport too expensive?

Linklist: December 2, 2011

"Robot" Road Repair

Linklist: December 1, 2011

Google Street View: Not Just For Directions Anymore

Robo-blogging

New York has Haiku. \\ Traffic signs avert danger. \\ Do they work? Find Out.

Linklist: November 30, 2011

Linklist: November 27, 2011

A solution to the European economic problem.

US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America

BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities

Some thoughts on the Intercounty Connector

Transportation costs too much

Delaware OKs neo-Nazi group in 'Adopt A Highway' program

Linklist: November 18, 2011

Network Reliability in Practice

Dear Elsevier, Your RSS Feeds are Broken

Electric multicopter flies manned for the first time

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

Minnesota GO

InDecision 2011: Washington State Transportation Initiatives

Linklist: November 10, 2011

The Economist worries about too many Segways.

Linklist: November 7, 2011

Transportation futurist

Kevin Krizek has a blog

Do we hear $100 Billion?

It's HOT in Georgia

Intelligent Transportation Systems: Your Road to the Future

Imaginary Futuristic B******t

toll roads coming on?

My god, it will be beautiful

Linklist: October 31, 2011

Mind-controlled virtual helicopters

Linklist: October 28, 2011

Linklist: October 26, 2011

Samsung Galaxy S™ II, Epic™ 4G Touch

Linklist: October 25, 2011

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Bit City: 2011: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities

Walk don't run

Linklist: October 18, 2011

World Society for Transport and Land Use Research

A Dictionary Of Transport Analysis

How big need a city be such that your hosts don't meet you at the airport?

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

Value of Travel-Time Reliability: Commuters' Route-Choice Behavior in the Twin Cities

Innovation Starvation

Linklist: October 10, 2011

If only US Transportation Infrastructure were as new and as nice as US DOT Headquarters

Cain McCain

Faster, Faster

The Final Frontier

Mathematically challenged bus stop ad

Height limits produce a positive externality

TEDx: The important difference between a road and a street - Strong Towns Blog - Strong Towns

Talk at USDOT: Transport, Land Use, and Value

Lego/Rap: Comments on Woodward Avenue Detroit Light Rail Alternatives

Evolving Transportation Networks - in paperback for $24.95

Should the Public Pay for Unprofitable Transit Routes? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

Linklist: October 3, 2011

Mission exempts churches from 'driveway tax'

At what time in the morning do drivers begin to obey traffic lights?

Linklist: September 29, 2011

Linklist: September 28, 2011

Peak Truck

Linklist: September 27, 2011

Talk in Chicago

Linklist: September 26, 2011

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I feel validated

Driverless car navigates Berlin streets

Commentary on 'Towards financially sustainable mass transit systems'

Linklist: September 22, 2011

Transit 2.0

Help 'Twin Cities Streets for People' pick a new name!

From LI Bus, a case study in the purpose of transit :: Second Ave. Sagas

A Note on Transportation Subsidies « The Transport Politic

The Boat Anthropomorphic

The size of the pedestrian city

Human Transit: should transit agencies "retrench" to become "profitable"?

Linklist: September 19, 2011

Audi ad

Seattle Metro’s New Bus Stop Signs

Linklist: September 17, 2011

Transit and road congestion

Linklist: September 16, 2011

Towards financially sustainable mass transit systems

Linklist: September 14, 2011

High-speed rail to Duluth gains steam

Common Ground USA

Colored Buses

The Helicopter Anthropomorphic

Linklist: September 12, 2011

Discover <strike>Central Corridor</strike> Green Line

Link List: September 10, 2011

On the Jobs Speech - By Reihan Salam

Linklist: September 9, 2011

Linklist: September 8, 2011

Geography Coffee Hour

Beyond Density

Linklist: September 7, 2011

When should we leave for the stars? Or on the exponential speed of travel speed increase

The Plane Anthropomorphic

Linklist: September 6, 2011

Posted: Visualizing US expansion through post offices.

Wikibook: Transportation Geography and Network Science

Linklist: September 2, 2011

The Train Anthropomorphic 2: Blue trains edition

Wikibook: Transportation Economics

Wikibook: Fundamentals of Transportation

Linklist: August 31, 2011

World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR)

An Economic Comment on the Stillwater Bridge

Linklist: August 29, 2011

Linklist: August 25, 2011

Linklist: August 24, 2011

Weak Bridge

The Tappan Zee Bridge

Linklist: August 22, 2011

Another satisfied customer

Linklist - August 19, 2011

Equity of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms

JTLU 4(2) The Coevolution of Transport and Land Use

The race is on

Linklist August 18, 2011

Techplan

Breakfast cereal, Utopia, and Eugenics

The Undeath of Distance

Dematerializing Architecture - Skinning Buildings

Mural Painted on Mpls. Street to Help Slow Traffic

Remapping cities

Google-Motorola and Land Value Capture

Accessibility Futures

Linklist: August 16, 2011

Do people use the shortest path? An empirical test of Wardrop’s first principle.

Linklist: August 15, 2011

Accessibility, network structure, and consumers’ destination choice: a GIS analysis of GPS travel data

High-speed rail price tag soars again, this time on pace to surpass $60 billion

Network Structure and City Size

Linklist August 10, 2011

A Time Geography Approach to Understanding the Impact of Gasoline Price Changes on Traffic Safety

Politicians are not entitled to holidays, some thoughts on the London Riots

Donor-Donee States

Linklist: August 9, 2011

A Portfolio Theory of Route Choice

Gas tax opt-out dynamics

Sungandavirtton: The Abolisher of Tolls

The historical ideal of toll-free travel

Origins and Destiny

Linklist: August 8, 2011

Effects of Mode Shares on Mode Choice

Google driver crashes autonomous car

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Gasoline Price Effects on Traffic Safety in Urban and Rural Areas: Evidence from Minnesota, 1998–2007

Pulse of the City » Simulacra

Accessibility Dynamics and Location Premia: Do Land Values Follow Accessibility Changes?

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Geodesic

Plug-in Hybrid Conversions

TRIP Bonds

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To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games

Human Transit: transit and a shrinking u.s. government

Panel finds flaws in high-speed-rail forecasts

Mayor crushes 'illegally parked car' with tank

The importance of being early

Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations

Unbundling government

The diverging diamond interchange

Will The Federal Gasoline Tax Be Grover Norquist’s Next Hostage?

High-speed eastern rail link to cost $100 billion

Fallen slab is concrete proof Montreal’s crumbling

Remember when biking used to be a fun thing rather than An Important Thing?

Lessons from the state shutdown. Avoiding fragility in governance.

The collapse of the Railway Mania, the development of capital markets, and Robert Lucas Nash, a forgotten pioneer of accounting and financial analysis

China: Bullet trains collide in Zhejiang province

Lane Closed to Ease Congestion

New lease of life for Kenya's 'lunatic' railway

North St. Paul's 'Living Streets' program aims to make roads safer, more environmentally friendly

The economics of the Michelin Guide — Marginal Revolution

Northstar Shutdown Due to Derailment

County wheelage tax might pay for a new bridge in Minneapolis | StarTribune.com

Google Killed Map Traffic Estimates Because It Just Didn't Work

London's useless bus route 'spider maps' due for an overhaul

Test Networks

Study: Long commutes could fatigue airline pilots

New coalition unveils alternative plan for St. Croix River bridge

BAA cuts Heathrow growth forecasts

Do Freeway Traffic Management Strategies Exacerbate Urban Sprawl?The Case of Ramp Metering

Circle Pines, Minnesota a planned cooperative

City of North Oaks, Minnesota

'Up to' 25% of Accidents Are Associated With Gadgets

Dems slam House GOP transportation bill proposal - The Hill's Transportation Report

Soon we will all be disemboweled before we can board a plane

China's record-breaking Jiaozhou bridge 'is safe'

Green Roads Construction: Are Contractors Our Roadblock?

The Connected States of America

<a href="http://reason.org/blog/show/land-value-capture-and-market-based"> Land Value Capture and Market-Based Transportation Funding</a>

<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/phone-data-to-give-a-picture-of-traffic-disaster-in-l-a/?ref=technology">Phone Data to Give a Picture of Traffic Shutdown in L.A. </a>

Rep. Paul: Abolish TSA

London Tubemap - A new angle on the London Underground

New Mileage Rules Debated by Carmakers and White House

Airport security: Frequent fliers would pay for faster airport security checks

New air guidance system threatened with delays

City dwellers produce as much CO2 as countryside people do: study

Power-grid experiment could confuse clocks

Proximity, accessibility and choice

YouTube - ‪Gasoline Prices and Traffic Safety‬‏

The Demand Curve for Life

Discount rates on human lives

App Provides Extra Eyes on the Road - Technology Review

Transportation at TED

Volkswagen Shows Off Self-Driving Auto Pilot Technology For Cars

More support for Infrastructure Bank

Chinese mass transit: On the right track | The Economist

Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Toll Entrepreneur

Think Big: Transportation overhaul would save money, create jobs, cut pollution, burn less oil

Travel Made Humans

Targeting toll lanes to catch cheats

Seeing Red: Why L.A. Needs to Keep its Traffic Light Cameras

From Here to There: Marketing and Branding Public Transport | TheCityFix

Baltimore Accessibility Maps

Another potential shutdown casualty: Stillwater Lift Bridge

Schumer calls for horse "no ride" list in wake of terror plot

Open Source, Open Content, Open Campuses ... New Apple HQ

London Underground Map redesigned

Pilot killed after Goodyear blimp plunges to the ground in flames in Germany

Feat of feet of street

Transit: The 4 Percent Solution

Police on his back

Facebook, Dunbar's Number and Geometry

How Affordable is Transportation? A Context-Sensitive Framework

Heat buckles pavement, snarling Twin Cities traffic | Minnesota Public Radio News

3-Way Street

Driving I-94 from city to city now borderline nuts

California Farmer - All UC Campus Seminars Online

MTA.ME

An App That Organizes Your City by Travel Time

Patri Friedman makes waves with 'seasteading' plan

More than 4,000 National Academies Press PDFs Now Available to Download for Free

Airplane Seat Reclining: A Good Real-World Altruism Test?

Sinking Dreams of a Privately-Funded Subway in Toronto

@trnsprttnst

Bright Lights, Rich Cities

Dangerous by Design 2011 Map of Fatalities

YouTube - ‪minnesotago's Channel‬‏

The Train Anthropomorphic

Explaining the Findings of Transit Accessibility Research

Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture - (37signals)

Why Are Car Seats So Poorly Designed? - Design - GOOD

U.S. Presidential Limo Defeated by Steep-Grade Parking Ramp

DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven decreased 1.4% in March compared to March 2010

Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia.

The Great Kilowatt vs. Gallon Face-Off

Regulations Hinder Development of Driverless Cars

I crashed the airplane

Niet Roken

Duty free

Passport verification

Swiss security

British Airways

Driven to disrepair? England’s roads under pressure from traffic, weather, spiralling costs and budget cuts

London Railway Annual Reports

Mapping Accessibility in the Twin Cities

Cities in Motion Arriving for Mac Today

The Concrete Lobby?

Journal of Transport and Land Use (Volume 4, Issue 1) is now out

World Tour

California High-Speed Train Wreck

See the redesigned Metro maps and vote for your favorite!

Mind the map! The impact of transit maps on path choice in public transit

Homeland Security Doesn't Do Cost/Benefit Analysis; They Just Do Fear And Bluster | Techdirt

Washington Ave. Closure Prompts Increased Taxi Cab Fares

Road Closed

Property, the Great Pirates, and Public Transportation

A Spooky Reminder to Obey the Speed Limit

Transportation is a metaphor for Life: "Pothole Protection Act" edition

Co-opting Complete Streets

Brookings Loonies « Systemic Failure

If You Build Public Charging Stations, Will They Come?

Solar Roadways

Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Ground-effect robot could be key to future high-speed trains

Google lobbies Nevada to allow self-driving cars | KurzweilAI

Blacktop and whitetop

New Reports: Higher Gas Prices Mean Safer Roads

My life as a Content Management System Administrator (updated)

Washington Mall

The gridless grid

Urban Airport of the Future (1926)

A Traffic Light Out, an Intersection Improved[?]

Altruism and discrimination in traffic

Osama bin Laden death: Intelligence reveals US rail threat from al-Qaida

Autonomous cars interview

The Aerotropolis: Will the Cities of the Future be Giant Airports?

Cuts could force Minneapolis to slow its assault on potholes

Governor Maps Road to 'Interstate' 41

The Dutch Rail System’s Strange Peak-Load Pricing

Great British Rail Journeys

Terrorism and International Transport: Towards risk-based security policy

Network Structure and Travel

One Dollar Death Ride: Public Transit in Russia.

Kane, Quimby: Shift gears to ease traffic congestion in the Twin Cities

Henry George is coming to town.

Architecture Fiction: Pixel City - Procedurally generated city

Missed Opportunity: Transit and Jobs in Metropolitan America

Docklands Light Railway, Charing Cross, Jubilee, and the case for dynamic planning

Britain from Above

Science, Copyright, and Free Inquiry

Is Vision Necessary?

Isn't that Special

Study: High Gas Prices Lead to Fewer Auto Accidents

Yet another externality of gasoline consumption

Access for Value: Financing Transportation Through Land Value Capture

A Racetrack Model of the Macro-economy: Or what transportation can teach economists.

America's transport infrastructure: Life in the slow lane

Zombie Transportation, Irreversibility, Planning Limbo, and Why Projects Never Die

TomTom user data sold to Dutch police, used to determine ideal locations for speed trap

Mere Water Will Not Extinguish Fire Ants

The Technium: Easy Exotic

Are China’s high-speed trains heading off the rails?

The rise of the robot car

Gas prices rise = accidents drop

Truth be Tolled

Fast Train to Nowhere

Towards an Urban Interface - Some Design Principles

It's not your fault. It's Asphalt

License Tabs

Predictable Bicycle Tragedy Points to Need for New Street Priorities at University of Minnesota

Traveler delay costs and value of time with trip chains, flexible activity scheduling and information

Access Minnesota | Fix It First – Changing the Way We Maintain &amp; Pay For Highways

Evolving Transportation Networks

Streetcar Ride in Barcelona, 1908

The Art of Endless Upgrades

How to Create a Culture of Public Transit: The 'Marci Option'

The Post Office Railway (Mail Rail)

RESCHEDULED: Bridge Collapses, Our Journey to Work, and other Transportation Challenges <strike>(April 19, 7:30 p.m.)</strike>

Beautiful U Day : University of Minnesota

Moving bikes stay upright - but not for the reasons we thought

Should there be a National Transit System Redux?

China’s Bad Growth Bet

No More Commuter Rail Starts

Does Brasilia work?

Metro Transit press release

Road Diet for University Avenue along Central Corridor

It's still dead

Store vs. Shop

Three Steps To Get Our Highways Moving Again

Ah, spring! The song of the robin and the filling of the pothole

Will London’s New Wayfinding System Get More People Walking?

Cities are more profound at night.

Why are we so afraid of terrorists?

A2D Talk, April 14 @ Noon

Should there be a National Transit System?

Watch a Jumbo Jet Spin a Tiny Jet In a JFK Runway Collision

Zipcar Profits (none)

Review of In Motion: The Experience of Travel, by Tony Hiss: Places: Design Observer

A Numeric Topology of the United States Eisenhower Interstate Highway System

How Smartphones Can Improve Public Transit

Privatizing U

TED Talks: Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

The Traffic, She is Increasing

When the Sprawl Stopped

Security theatre in England.

Freeway air pollution linked to brain damage in mice

BusMeister Game

How to Hail a Passenger - IEEE Spectrum

Model Railroads

Which Airports Have the Most Unfair Fares?

Putting on the Brakes: Mankind Nears the End of the Age of Speed

Like John Lithgow in Footloose, Denver kills the Barnes Dance

We're number three.

Rail Transit Benefit Cost Analysis - Nonuser benefits

Texas House backs plan to allow 85 mph speed limit

A bridge for Stillwater

The Northstar of Broken Dreams

It Just Makes You Feel Poor

Transatlantic Tunnel

Birdseye view of Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1867

Street Maintenance Fees and Fairness

Work and Home Location: Possible Role of Social Networks.

Skyway Life

Parking in Motion

Mischief in Minnesota: Northstar and Strategic Misrepresentation

Minnesota Standards Should Change from 12 Foot Lane Widths to 11 Foot Lane Widths - Mike on Traffic

Buses: The Quickening

Is sprawl over?

Twin Cities 2030 Transitway System: The Metropolitan Council lacks Visualization Skills

The Road to Serfdom is paved

Home is Where the Hub Is

It's Transportational

Why retailers cluster: an agent model of location choice on supply chains

The Hammock District

Share of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Sales are down

Rails to Real Estate?

The supervillain's lair always has a monorail

China's Ghost Cities

State using Benefits and Costs to determine priorities.

Bridges do not repair themselves

Gravelization

Maplewood looks at socializing trash

How do the transit systems of the world really compare? - The Globe and Mail

Dangerous By Design: Most Dangerous Large Metro Areas for Pedestrians

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Wikipedia

A Country Divided: Japan's Electric Bottleneck

Battery technology: Highly charged

Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?

The first bus transit in human history

You have to keep them separated

Why would we do nothing different?

BUILD Act

Hierarchy of Infrastructure Needs

With less money for roads, experts say pothole season could be worst yet | Minnesota Public Radio News

London's Unfinished Ringways and Railways

Cities and Cities

Ring Roads of the World

Can't find what you're looking for?

Deconstructing proposed Construction

Network Theory

Driving's Back Up ... Or Is It?

Oyster Flowprint

Group Pushes For Light Rail Station Shutdown

New use for tow trucks

Slugging: The Peoples Transit

Comparative size of Government

"Street code"

Going up?

Paul Yarossi of HNTB, Born to Be an Engineer - NYTimes.com

The Colourful Buses of Seoul

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Fix-it-First - more links

The Limits to Agglomeration (or Agglomeration and Density)

Zoning and Externalities

Animals on the Underground

Best Jobs in America 2010

Rethinking University Avenue before the trains roll

Nice Ride gets $1.78 million for expansion of bike sharing system | Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal

Can't find a parking spot? Get a hybrid ... or a baby.

Betty McCollum promises to fight Michele Bachmann's bridge - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter

Some links - Fix it First:

Fix It First - Great Artists Steal

Shifting Gears to Ease Congestion: Improving Travel and Travel Choices in the Twin Cities Area

Christchurch

Fix It First, Expand It Second, Reward It Third: A New Strategy for America's Highways - Brookings Institution

Tim Lee on congestion prices

Blue Ribbon Transportation

Fix Old Roads, Instead of Constructing New Ones, Report Urges - NYTimes.com

Calling all cars: cell phone networks and the future of traffic

State Roads to Economic Recovery: Policies, Pavements, and Partnerships - Brookings Institution

Fla. scraps high-speed rail plan pushed by Obama

Time, Travel, and Traffic

Americans rank transportation needs high but don't want to pay the costs

We Must Repaint Our Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure

sorting out rail-bus differences

An animated map of Auckland's public transport network | Seeing Data

Plans for Twin Cities to Chicago high-speed train hit speed bump | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

Adventures in Occupational Licensing: North Carolina Traffic Engineering Edition

Distance discount rate

Snow (1963)

The Forum On Funding And Financing Solutions For Surface Transportation In The Coming Decade Conference Report

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

Threat level color codes to be disbanded

Nexus at Transportation Research Board conference #TRBUMN #TRBAM

St. Paul buys all-electric utility trucks, plans 24 charging stations

Jam-busting service on the road in many cities

Thieves steal SIM cards from traffic lights

Road safety

Chinese farmer gets life in prison for evading highway tolls

A common pool resources problem

In mall transit

Planning Curses

JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011

A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation

Do Roads Pay for Themselves?

Land Use and Transport in China

Peak Travel