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A Taxonomy of Modes

Structural errors in forecasting

Accessibility and non-work destination choice: A microscopic analysis of GPS travel data

Why we should raise gas taxes now, but implement road pricing soon.

The end of traffic in America: A Q&A with transportation expert David Levinson

5 or so Books about Minnesota, Transport, and Land Use You Should Read -- streets.mn

CNN 10 Ideas: Self-Driving Cars

5 or So Books on Transportation Economics and Policy You Should Read

Owatonna - Main Street

5 or So Pieces of Children's Transportation Fiction You Should Read (With Your Kids)

A personal history and forecast for Modems, or "Is @Comcast the worst company in America?"

Car Sharing Trends

Road pricing and asset publicization: A new approach to revitalizing US infrastructure

The influence of light rail transit on transit use: An exploration of station area residents along the Hiawatha line in Minneapolis

5 or So Pieces of Transportation Fiction You Should Read

Faculty Scholarly Productivity and Reputation in Planning: A Preliminary Citation Analysis

The End of Driving -- Money and Politics Podcast

'The damned blighters will only want to ride more.'

The Metrics Reloaded

Volvo “Drive Me” project brings 100 autonomous cars to the road

Number Crunchers: Addressing the Pitfalls and Practices of Dynamic Pricing Schemes

5 or So Transit Books You Should Read

Better bus stops

Main Street – Faribault | streets.mn

WSTLUR Update

Pine County withdraws from the NLX Alliance

5 or So Books about Transportation History You Should Read

Begging for Simplicity

World-class sports cities

The Transportation Experience: Second Edition

Exploring universal patterns in human home/work commuting from mobile phone data

5 Or So Books on Streets and Traffic You Should Read

How Traffic Jams Decentralize Cities: Scientific American

Reactions to `What happened to traffic'

Car2Go - A Review (updated)

Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(3)

Bus stops by Metropolitan Area

Towards a First-Class Bus System

Driven to Decline: Interstate Highways, Suburbanization, and Urban Decay

Accessibility Observatory to provide annual rankings for cities

7 Ways to Reduce Transportation Waste

AsymCAR 7

Faculty Position in Transportation Engineering

"Big" Data as a Foundation for Measuring and Improving Public Transport Operations

Should airport security be centralized or at the gate?

How does the President's Fix it First plan differ from ours?

David Levinson's Vision of the Future

To Get Around Town, Some Cities Take A Step Back In Time

What happened to traffic?

Network Structure and Travel Time Perception

The Traffic is Falling

Robert Bertini - Warren Lecture - “Big” Data as a Foundation for Measuring and Improving Public Transport Operations - Friday Nov. 8 at 3:30 pm in CE210

Prices are an Information Technology

What's a City For?

Why we engage in ‘security theater’

Why time is money on the road

Why HOV lanes often don’t work

Understanding trade-offs and public trust

Bikes still outsell Cars in US

Fleet Turnover

Catalyst: The future of transportation

Open Access Article: Spatial modeling of bicycle activity at signalized intersections | Institute of Transportation Studies Library

Mobility Innovations: From Robot Cars to Big Data

View from the Train

Feels like the first time: Transit interfaces and the first time user | streets.mn

Transportation Innovations from Around the World

People and their Paths 5: How to get people to behave optimally

People and their Paths 4: Time and its Mis-perception

People and their Paths 3: Not all time is created equal

People and their Paths 2: Why aren’t people taking the shortest path?

People and their Paths 1: Do People Take the Shortest Path?

No quick fix for busy I-94 through Central Minnesota

Accessibility Futures

The Week: Can Private and Public Sectors Work Together?

Jurisdictional Overload | streets.mn

The Week: Rethinking Transportation for the Future

Keeping the Green Line safe - The Minnesota Daily

GIS in Transit: Evaluating and Planning Transit Service Using Continuous Accessibility

More jobs ....

Call for Papers: World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2014: June 24-27, 2014 in Delft, the Netherlands

Special Section: Special Issue on Network Reliability - Transportation Research part C

Urban amusement parks | streets.mn

The Way to Pay: The Technology of Tolls

The Minneapolis Mayoral Forum on the Future of Transportation

Life Beyond the Gas Tax

Faculty opening at the University of Minnesota

Paying for Transit

Induced model complexity

Evaluation in a Time of Uncertainty

A model of the vicious cycle of a bus line

Transit Exchange

Why we engage in ‘security theater’

The Week: The Future of Mobility: More Automation

Value of Reliability at Symposium Magazine

The Week: Big Data Demands Define Pricing

The Week: How Data will Keep You Moving

The Week: Mobility vs. Accessibility

Wheels on Wheels: An Argument for Universal Design

Today’s Post | Symposium Magazine

The Mill District should be Loopier: On the creation of new old neighborhoods | streets.mn

On Our Way

The Week: The Investment Decline in Transportation

Off-the-Grid

The Road

The Week: Big Data: The Future of Your Commute

The Week: Truths about Transportation Politics

Does BRT have Economic Development Effects?

The Week: The Cost of Your Commute

It’s not the suburbs, it’s mid-late 20th century urban design, planning, engineering, and architecture

"Explaining the Irrational Commuter" in Symposium Magazine

Choices

The Week: Crowd-Sourcing As a Transportation Tool

The Week: The Future of Urban Mobility

The Week: Time-Saving Transportation Trends

The Week

On the road again

Another HOT Post

Who's Out There On The Roads? The 4 Types Of Cyclists - Forbes

CTS Catalyst Conversations

You have got to love renderings

Do Streetcars Promote Economic Development? | streets.mn

The Rolling English Road

Path dependence

HOT Lanes Are Even More Popular When They're Expensive - Eric Jaffe - The Atlantic Cities

Evaluating Perturbation Impact on Key Travel Models

The Road Not Taken

Altoona Pennsylvania adopts Land Value Tax

Montreal in Motion : Un jour de la Société de transport de Montréal

A survival analysis-based choice set formation approach for single-destination choice using GPS travel data

Racial Dot Map

Why isn't NASA in USDOT?

Causality in the Link Between Road Network Growth and Regional Development

Modeling the Commute Mode Share of Transit Using Continuous Accessibility to Jobs

The Hyperloop Boarding and Alighting problem

Back to the future with metro streetcar proposals (AUDIO)

Density and Transit: Some Numbers – Minneapolis St. Paul Edition | streets.mn

Open Streets – Minnehaha, and some further comments on the Blue Line and environs | streets.mn

The Road Goes Ever On

Study: Higher prices attract drivers to HOT lanes

Which Station? Access Trips and Bike Share Route Choice

What if Minneapolis-St. Paul had the London Underground?

Streetcars on the Daily Circuit - (update) Monday August 12, 10am

HOT or Not: Driver Elasticity to Price on the MnPASS HOT Lanes

Noise Walls and Pollution

Incremental Accessibility Benefits and HOT Lane Subscription Choice

Rethinking the Minneapolis Transit Hub

Automatic Train Operation

Flying Bike

Song of the Open Road

Catalysts And Magnets: Built Environment Effects On Bicycle Commuting

Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(2)

Peak travel in Vancouver, where traffic counts are down significantly from 2006.

A rewarding life

Are there too many roads?

Northfield

Thinking outside the Right-of-Way

Cost per Daily Passenger Mile

Walking Distances

Cost per daily rider

Journal Citation Metrics

International Seminar on Transit Oriented Development: 19-21 September 2013

Municipalize It? Electric and Natural Gas Utility Ownership in Minneapolis | streets.mn

Are EU Cohesion Policy funds well spent on roads?

International conference on Uncertainties in transport infrastructure evaluation: 16-18 September 2013

Time and Space: Happiness, Mobility, and Location

Auctioning Green Time

Call for Papers: World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2014: June 24-27, 2014 in Delft, the Netherlands

How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge:

Saint Paul Skyways and Sidewalks

Singapore Haze

Evaluating Evanston's Environs

Nobody walks to Saint Paul | streets.mn

No, Ride-Sharing Is Not the Death of Public Transportation

The price of anarchy – on the roads and in football

50th and France

Fourth of July 1999 – Stone Arch Bridge | streets.mn

Twittering Twin Citizens | streets.mn

Seven hours in New York City

What are the big trends that will shape transport?

Why transportation doesn't get the money it "needs"

Heart of Midtown threatened by widening of I-94 [in Detroit]

Pricing with and without Reservations

Road Fees Don't Hurt the Poor as Much as You Might Think

The Cases for (and Against) Public and Private Networks

Traffic on Maryland's MD200 ICC

Detour: Rerouting our way of thinking in traffic

Technical solutions for policy problems; Policy solutions for technical problems

In a West End town, a dead end world | streets.mn

Cities sans shopping

Transportation Trends and the American Future

Fundamentals driving trends in Intercity Transportation in the US

Infrastructure and Land Policies

Heads-up

14 Trends Shaping Transportation

Deconstructing Children's Play Rugs

Free transit? A thought experiment.

Farebox recovery: A thought experiment | streets.mn

Citi Bike Launches In NYC, But Will It Reach New Yorkers Who Aren't Rich And White?

Visualizing How People Utilize Cities, Data Analysis by Schema Design | ArchDaily

London is your Oyster

Lots of Parking in Minneapolis

Posters and Promotion

A Great Migration: The Transportationist.org is Moving to WordPress

Crossroads | A Minnesota transportation research blog

Mostly Empty Syndrome

Minneapolis to use Value Capture to help pay for proposed Nicollet Central Streetcar line

Signifying Nothing

NLX Promotional Material

No Parking and De-Signing Streets | streets.mn

Why must I travel, why can't I tele-conference

NLX Slides

Economists get what they want

The Yard at Downtown East | streets.mn

Dan Snow's Locomotion

SPUD

Access Across America media mentions

An Agent-Based Model of Origin Destination Estimation (ABODE)

Traffic on Washington Avenue – Raw data edition | streets.mn

Time Evolution of Twin Cities

Forcing a round object into a square map

The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters year six

Grids are for squares: Three reasons to consider alternatives to rectilinear street networks

The case for (and against) public subsidy for roads | streets.mn

Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(1)

PathFinding.js

NLX redux

Club Transit

ICA Workshop on Street Networks and Transport

Travel Time Perception Errors: Causes and Consequences

Traffic Congestion and Job Accessibility

Street Improvement Fees

Evaluation of the Minnesota Road Fee Test

Property Tax on Privatized Roads

The case for (and against) public subsidy for public transport

A Portfolio Theory of Route Choice

Moving beyond mobility: measuring accessibility in U.S. cities

Adventures in Forecasting Intercity Rail: NLX edition

Who will pay if NLX fails?

Inform pedestrians, not drivers

When Thinking About Infrastructure, Focus on Accessibility

Understanding the Contribution of Highway Investment to National Economic Growth

Does NLX rail make sense for Pine County?

Mis-structuring employee parking charges: An example from a local university

Fifth most accessible metro area

Access Across America

Streets.MN moving to LA unless new server provided by Minnesota Taxpayers | streets.mn

New Zeppelin Port Announced | streets.mn

Annals of excess cost: Volume 2

Black Holes: A brief treatise on the nature of journal publications and the conditions necessary for formation of black holes in networks of scholarly communication.

Annals of excess cost

Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States

First do no harm: Cities and infrastructure as living systems | streets.mn

$40bn “fix it first” plan headlines Obama’s infrastructure push

OpenScheduleTracker

FOSS4G: FOSS Experiences in Transportation and Land Use Research

How shoveling and plowing snow now extends the duration of icy sidewalks

To Game or Not to Game: Teaching Transportation with Board Games webinar sponsored by TRB Committee AHB45

Suppose we replaced the federal income tax with inflation.

Selfishness and Altruism in the Distribution of Travel Time and Income.

Demand Side Solutions to Ice-Related Falls

A Renewed Look at Federal Funding for Transit Operations

The grass is always greener on the other side of the 49th parallel

Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

The End of Federal Transportation Funding as We Know It

Five Rules for Vital Streets | streets.mn

Scheduling for failure

One taxi Über alles

Land Developability

Welcome to Meteorological Spring

Lean Machine for the 21st Century

Sequester and the Lump of Government Mistake

Brains mapped with network analysis

HSR and Self-driving vehicles

It's Toasted

Just-in-time consumption: Does the `pint of milk test’ hold water?

StarTrib on Gender and Driving, and the Oh-so-timely Death of "Woman Driver" Jokes - Network Distance

Fastest Metropolitan Area in the United States (outside of California) | streets.mn

With more total driver's licenses, women passing men on the roads

Accessibility Now and in the Future

Sidewalks are Hotting Up

Walkable Ice

Department of Accessibility

Fix-It-First in 2013 State of the Union

I Love Accessibility | streets.mn

Should We Replace the Term 'Congestion Pricing'?

Why Covering The US In High-Speed Rail Makes No Sense At All

I Love My Commute | streets.mn

Transport Finance without the Feds: The Canadian Model

HSR to the future?

Enterprising Transport: TransLink in Vancouver

Case Studies of Transportation Investment to Identify the Impacts on the Local and State Economy

Go-To Tap in

Accessibility Now and in the Future

The Pain of Paying

Gas Prices and Traffic Safety

Atlanta traffic bad but predictable

Does TTI underestimate historic congestion levels?

Time and the City

The structure and evolution of a skyway network

Heilmeier's Catechism

To Game or Not to Game: Teaching Transportation Planning with Board Games

Stairing us in the face

There’s no business like snow business | streets.mn

Annual Accessibility Measure for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region

QRious sidewalks

Should we end the Federal Surface-Transportation Program ?

Utilizing the Space Beneath Bridges – Some More Examples | streets.mn

Enterprising Roads: Improving the Governance of America's Highways

Metro strategic plan 2013-2025

Titling Articles

Transit Space Race 2013

techsportation

Not dead but buried | streets.mn

JTLU in Scopus

Uncredited

4 wheels bad, 1 wheel good (From the vehicles have too many wheels, Dpt.)

Nexus at 92nd Transportation Research Board Meeting (TRB 2013)

Going Underground

Faster Starts

Transportation Benefits Too Little

Menace 2 Society

No comment

The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety: a time geography explanation

Underground 150

I am entitled

Red Line

SmarTrip - and the perils of smartcard registration.

Surge

The Argument for Platform Barriers

Walk Minneapolis

Sackgasse

Carsharing is the mode of the future, and always will be