Sitemap - 2012 - Transportist

How a chance encounter in St. Paul almost prevented World War II

JTLU 5(3)

2012 Best Mid-Late 20th Century Enclosed Shopping Mall: Mall of America | streets.mn

In praise of contiguity | streets.mn

Why Grids Matter and We Should Recreate Them At All Cost (Strictly for the ROI)

Profitmobiles (EVs)

John Silva, Maker of ‘Telecopter’ Camera, Dies at 92

London’s black cabs to get free high-speed WiFi hotspots from early 2013 - The Next Web

London Underground Stamps and £2 Coin

Valuation of travel time reliability from a GPS-based experimental design

2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update

How to solve traffic jams

When You Plan, You Begin With A B C | streets.mn

Tunnel Collapses Outside Tokyo Kills Nine - NYTimes.com

The Genius of Dirt Roads

The Next Big OS War Is In Your Dashboard

Two not unrelated reports

Won’t you take me to … Dinkytown | streets.mn

Getting from here to there: Bridge Collapse Causes Train Wreck

Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Particulate Matter, and Autism

Prediction: D.C. Area Highway and Transit Crowding Will Get Worse

Transportation Economic Evaluation Video by Matt Kahn

Why does the Institute of Transportation Engineers exist? 10 Ideas for Big Changes - Mike on Traffic

Dumb Ways to Die - YouTube

The Transportation Experience / Second Edition - Reviewers wanted

What sort of town is Richard Scarry's Busytown?

Self-driving vehicles and self-preservation

City Of Melbourne : 24PM - Pedestrian Monitoring System Data Visualisation

Positions: Ning Li, Virginia DOT

Autonomous civil aircraft could be flying before cars go driverless

College Football Conference Realignment

Nice Ride - Gateway Bikes?

The best laid plans

Sharrows Suck « Systemic Failure

Minnesota Nice

Routing around failures

Tree canopy and house size

85th Percentile Rule

Road funding reformed - dedicate fuel taxes to deficit reduction

Comprehensive LRT System Plan for Hennepin County

Sidewalk Obstructionism

SMART Signal

Driverless Cars

Road, transit supporters hope for new revenue

Report Sees U.S. as Top Oil Producer, Overtaking Saudi Arabia, in 5 Years

Linklist: November 12, 2012 Sandy Special Edition

PhDs from the Faculty's Perspective | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM

Transit and crime

It Can’t Happen Here | streets.mn

It Can’t Happen Here | streets.mn

Mobile phones for driving safety:

Autonomous race cars

Paving Streets for the Poor

WSTLUR at Delft

Standards Wars in Transportation

HOV3 and Casual Carpooling

Bloomberg Announces Carpool Rule for Manhattan-Bound Drivers

Moral (road) hazard:

New New York and New New Jersey

Sandy and Redundancy

Above and Below New York

‘We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs’

Journal of Transport and Land Use 5(2)

How to Create Fuel Out Of Thin Air

Toronto v. Minneapolis

Progress in Motion's Planning Ahead

Airport air makes you free

Traffic Control Device for Non-Vehicular Traffic Vehicles « Getting Around Minneapolis

Morning in America

Four people hit by a car in Stadium Village

No Hetero, Godless, Childless Capitalists welcome

Don’t Forget to Look Up: The Skybridges of New York City « Untapped New York

Walking in the street is HIGHLY DANGEROUS and PROHIBITED by Law

My mayoral campaign | Christian Wolmar

Load Balancing

MnDOT: 20-Year State Highway Investment Plan - 2013-2032

Towards auto-stabilizing tax rates

Pedestrian Seductive

London Underground humor

Good Ideas in Transportation – A Streetstorm | streets.mn

Dr. Willard and Mr. Mitt

How memory load leaves us ‘blind’ to new visual information

UMN Campus Shuttle Signs

Frank and Roberts on Infrastructure | EconTalk

Metro Transit Sign Test

Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps

Gridlock as China begins its 'Golden Week' holidays

An unmarked crosswalk exists at every single intersection

Redistribution vs. Building

California OKs Driverless Cars

Timelapse video: New Hastings Bridge is floated into place

Mapping Silicon Valley's Own Private "iWay"

MNDot Launches Pedestrian Safety Campaign | streets.mn

Affordable housing is existing housing | streets.mn

More people are driving alone, carpooling, biking, walking, and taking transit to work. There are more people working.

Newspaper Advertising

Linklist: September 18, 2012

Route damn spot, Route I say. or Rooting for a Rout.

Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) (1975) - IMDb

Who will raise my Taxis | streets.mn

License plates

Brad Templeton against California HSR

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

Middle Class

Linklist: September 4, 2012

Transportation Team Trivia Night

One Hundred Years of Land Values

All Minnesota’s Affair | streets.mn

Uncovering the influence of commuters' perception on the reliability ratio. (working paper)

Agglomeration, Accessibility, and Productivity: Evidence for Urbanized Areas in the US (working paper)

Network structure and the journey to work: An intra-metropolitan analysis (working paper)

Trends in Metropolitan Network Circuity (working paper)

Markov Chain Model of Land Use Change in the Twin Cities (working paper)

Route choice dynamics after a link restoration (working paper)

The Time Between: Continuously-defined accessibility functions for schedule-based transportation systems (working paper)

The City of Saint Anthony Falls

Linklist: August 10, 2012

Network Structure and Travel Time Perception (working paper)

Linklist: August 9, 2012

Multi-agent Route Choice Game for Transportation Engineering (working paper)

The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels

Rural Highway Expansion and Economic Development: Impacts on Private Earnings and Employment (working paper)

Monte Carlo Simulation of Adaptive Stated Preference Survey with a case study: Effects of Aggregate Mode Shares on Individual Mode Choice (working paper)

Relative Accessibility and the Choice of Modes (working paper)

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 8: Policy Implications | streets.mn

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Economics of Transportation in Honor of Herbert Mohring

Call of Papers: Spatial and Land Use Implications of Taxis, Jitneys, Paratransit and Flexible Transportation

Positions: Shanjiang Zhu -> George Mason

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 7: Replacement | streets.mn

Positions: Nebiyou Tilahun -> University of Illinois at Chicago

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 6: Traffic | streets.mn

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 5: Economics | streets.mn

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 4: Politics

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 3: Communication | streets.mn

Award time

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 2: Structure | streets.mn

Hill staffer enjoys some ‘Recreation’

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 1: Introduction | streets.mn

Linklist: July 24, 2012 (One of these futures is not like the others, one of these futures does not belong)

Linklist: July 23, 2012

Broken pavement theory

Vortex-Based Zero-Conflict Design of Urban Road Networks

What if we closed Hennepin?

Old Infrastructure Is Hard Infrastructure

Where the Jobs Are: Employer Access to Labor by Transit | Brookings Institution

Linklist: July 10, 2012

How many people do I know of? Reflecting on Ernest Borgnine and Andy Griffith

Cost Bundling

Linklist: July 6, 2012

Northstar cuts fares by as much as 25% to lure more riders

Oh, Dr. Beeching!

BRT on the Midtown Greenway

Linklist: July 4, 2012

Toward transit dominance

Cost comparison

Aunt Bee the Crusader

Underground Utilities

Fare Machines

Can Pay Stations for Parking be used as GoTo card readers for bus pre-boarding?

Linklist: July 2, 2012

Derecho revealed dependencies

Do or do not, there is no plan | streets.mn

Debunking the urban revival

Linklist: June 29, 2012

STREET: Where simulation meets reality | Cultivating Change in the Academy

Americans support gas taxes for roads.

Linklist: June 27, 2012

I am just a Bill on Capitol Hill

Fewer travelers take off from MSP

Where's the logic of construction season?

Linklist: June 25, 2012

Linklist: June 19, 2012

Reading Sky Mall

Linklist: June 18, 2012

Notes on Walking about Harvard Square | streets.mn

LInklist: June 15, 2012

The Lorry Anthropomorphic

The Metro: Twin Cities Transit Visualized

Linklist: June 13, 2012

Marked Crosswalks Considered Harmful

I-94 open to traffic

Linklist: June 9, 2012 - Dematerialization edition

The Michigan Transportation Musical

We are the one-half of one percent.

Linklist: June 8, 2012

The Omnibus Anthropomorphic

Linklist: June 7, 2012

Linklist: June 6, 2012

Herbert Mohring

Arbor Lakes - A pedestrian explores the suburbs -- streets.mn

Infrastructure and Land Policies: The International Land Policy Conference

Accessibility Futures | streets.mn

The Automobile Anthropomorphic

Linklist: May 31, 2012

Using accessibility to evaluate future planning scenarios

Linklist: May 30, 2012

Location, location, location

Linklist: May 24, 2012

The Monorail Anthropomorphic

The Future of Greater MSP’s Cultural and Physical Environment

Linklist: May 22, 2012

Cross-subsidies | streets.mn

The Secret to Tokyo's Rail Success

Most Bikeable Cities

Linklist: May 18, 2012

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How Do You Put a Price Tag on a Brand New City? #wilfare

Track Record: Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns?: Scientific American

Network Structure and Travel Behavior: GTI/UTC Lunchtime Lecture Series

Linklist: May 16, 2012

Linklist: May 15, 2012

ANGIE

Linklist: May 14, 2012

Columbia River Crossing needs $900 million from Washington and Oregon, but how to raise it remains elusive | OregonLive.com

Linklist: May 11, 2012

Comments on "Why The Bay Area Should Have 11 Million Residents Today"

Rough road ahead for Minnesota drivers

The Construction Vehicle Anthropomorphic

Linklist: May 8, 2012

Linklist: May 7, 2012

The Missing Link | streets.mn

SMART-Signal Live

Linklist: May 4, 2012

Linklist: May 3, 2012

The rent is cheep.

Mobile Showroom

Accessibility impacts of high-speed rail

Vikings congestion charging zone #wilfare

Linklist: April 30, 2012

Measuring the transportation needs of seniors

Linklist: April 27, 2012

Special Issue of Journal of Transport and Land Use on Value Capture for Transportation Finance

Linklist: April 26, 2012

Deconstructing the Minnesota Sports Complex #Wilfare

Linklist: April 25, 2012

Linklist: April 24, 2012

Linklist: April 23, 2012

The Magic of Streetcars, The Logic of Buses | streets.mn

Earth Day v. Arbor Day

Linklist: April 20, 2012

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Magical Thinking

Linklist: April 16, 2012

Accessibility without congestion: Towards a less expensive lunch

Directions for Research in Transport and Land Use

Wall of Sound

Linklist: April 11, 2012

Livehoods

Linklist: April 9, 2012

Twin Cities Ten Million! | streets.mn

Linklist: April 6, 2012

The Objectivist - Ron Paul - Mitt Romney Alliance

Linklist: April 5, 2012

A positive theory of network connectivity

Linklist: April 4, 2012

Minneapolis, the Venice of the Upper Midwest | streets.mn

BART Addfare

A new Color Scheme for Public Transit

Ethical Ethanol

Linklist: March 30, 2012

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Linklist: March 27, 2012

Study: Zip Rail would boost state economy by $1 billion per year - Post Bulletin

High-speed link between Rochester, Twin Cities could pay for itself, report claims - Finance & Commerce

Linklist: March 26, 2012

Framing Regional Development | streets.mn

Transit Investment and Economic Productivity

Linklist: March 23, 2012

Perils of Privatization and Pricing as Proposed - Towards a Public Utility Model of Roads

Who should pay for roads, transit projects?

Linklist: March 21, 2012

Linklist: March 20, 2012

David Cameron unveils plan to sell off the roads

Linklist: March 19, 2012

Shifting Gears: A cross-regional analysis of bicycle facility networks and ridership

Linklist: March 16, 2012

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Linklist: March 14, 2012

Linklist: March 13, 2012

Gauging Thomas

My wallet

Linklist: March 12, 2012

The Campus Iconic | streets.mn

A Modest Proposal for DC Congressional Representation

Linklist: March 9, 2012

String Graffiti

Linklist: March 8, 2012

Seeing historical processes in road networks' patterns

Linklist: March 7, 2012

Spirit of Transportation

Linklist: March 6, 2012

Steal this book!?

Peak congestion

Linklist: March 2, 2012

Linklist: March 1, 2012

Linklist: February 29, 2012

Standing There Like Idiots

Minnesotans Emulating Transit-names of Other Organizations

Linklist: February 28, 2012

Why transportation costs too much, 4 more explanations

Linklist: February 27, 2012

Washington Mall Extended

Value of travel time reliability: A review of current evidence

Slow, infrequent, and inconvenient

Linklist: February 24, 2012

Why Transportation Costs Too Much, 39 Hypotheses and Counting

Light rail gets a name, new logo

Linklist: February 23, 2012

More on Elsevier as rent-seeking monopolists.

Linklist: February 22, 2012

Bottineau

Assessing Alternative Methods for Measuring Regional Mobility in Metropolitan Regions

Linklist: February 21, 2012

Mazda CX-5 joins the cast of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Light-rail service suspended, bridge, road closed after cable problem

Linklist: February 20, 2012

Linklist: February 17, 2012

Linklist: February 16, 2012

Peak

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Linklist: February 14, 2012

The Connectome Recapitulates Reality, A Hypothesis

Linklist: February 13, 2012

The end of football #wilfare

Linklist: February 9, 2012

Network Distance - Thoughts about transportation, GIS, and life.

Looking Ahead Fifty Years

Linklist: February 8, 2012

County Seats | streets.mn

Transportation takes too long to build

Linklist: February 6, 2012

A New Transportation Federalism

Linklist: February 3, 2012

Location, Regional Accessibility, and Price Effects

Linklist: February 1, 2012

You can go home again

The Cost of Knowledge - Boycotting Elsevier

Linklist: January 31, 2012

An Animated Argument For Congestion Pricing

Some visualizations

Pollution vs. Vaccines

An Assessment Scale for Travel Information at Bus Stops

Linklist: January 26, 2012

Network Structure and Spatial Separation

Five articles on self-driving cars

The reallocation of roadspace

Award time

Linklist: January 21, 2012

Blog Royalties

Understanding bicycle markings revisited

Nexus Group @ TRB

Linklist: January 18, 2012

Linklist: January 17, 2012

Cities or Solitude

Network Structure and City Size

Understanding Bicycle Markings in Minneapolis: A guide for motorists and bicyclists

Linklist: January 11, 2012

A solution to the Vikings stadium mess, a side-payment to Zygi Wilf

Understanding the impacts of a combination of service improvement strategies on bus running time and passenger’s perception

Linklist: January 10, 2012

In defense of skyways

Linklist: January 9, 2012

The Detailed Concerns of the CA HSR Peer Review Group

Small MN Town Privatizes its Police Force

High-speed rail: A £250m lesson for Britain's rail enthusiasts - Telegraph

A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.

the Pyramids don't have any operating costs

Complementary goods are co-located in effective retailing

Peak Drive-Thru

Linklist: January 3, 2012

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