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The Transportationist's most popular posts of 2014

The next big things for Minnesota in 2015 - Strib

Siege, Surge, and Compression

Access Across America: Transit 2014 Data

New National Accessibility Evaluation pooled-fund study solicitation is live

Main Street - Glencoe, Minnesota

Driverless Cars on KFAI

Bus Love

Journal of Transport and Land Use: Vol 7, No 3 (2014)

Phantom Trips

Accessibility moves out of the lab and into practice

Autonomy Island

Accessibility and the Allocation of Time: Changes in Travel Behavior 1990-2010

Accessibility and the choice of network investments in the London Underground

Are Transportation and Land Use Connections Strengthening or Weakening?

That's Transportainment

Midway Airport | streets.mn

Accessibility Observatory Data Now Available for Download #OpenData

Extrapolations in Traffic vs. Reality

Roads to nowhere: The accuracy of travel demand forecasts for do-nothing alternatives

It's a small market, after all. Es gibt einen kleinen Markt, uber alles.

Skating to where the PUC should be

Can one estimate the value of life or is it better to be dead than stuck in traffic?

15 Ways to Make Streets, Roads, and Highways Financially Sustainable

Road Pricing and Parking Workshop | Toronto

Phasing in Road Pricing One Electric Vehicle at a Time

Robot cars will change your life — maybe | MinnPost

Outside the box approaches to fund transportation infrastructure

AGI Critical Issues Forum: America's Increasing Reliance on Natural Gas: Benefits and Risks of a Methane Economy

Complementary Modes Should Be a Primary Local Planning Goal

Video: Timing Traffic Signals: Example

Highways' Hidden Subsidies

Video: Traffic Analysis at Signalized Intersections: Example

Creating Transitopolis

Winter Institute keynote speaker

Car Emissions vs. Car Crashes: Which One's Deadlier? The answer actually surprised us.

"Want better roads? Disband MnDOT" | Finance and Commerce

Video: Traffic Analysis at Signalized Intersections

Build Airport Capacity or Manage Flight Demand?

Video: In Search for Lost Time

The Falling Value of Monthly Passes

Future vehicles missing from Met Council’s transportation plan

Mini Metro Review

Video: Traffic Signal Advantages and Disadvantages

How will driverless cars reshape Twin Cities?

A Different Way to Evaluate New Transport Investment Subsidy

Video: Traffic Signal Terminology

Death by car: Are you more likely to die from a crash or breathing its toxic emissions?

Video: History and Evolution of Urban Traffic Control Technology

Evolution vs. Plans

On "Induced Demand"

The Many Flavors of Transit

City vs. Country

Forgetting Faster Than We Learn

Park and ride lot geometry

A One-Track Mind

Accessibility Webinar

The 60-Year Line

Summary of Civic Caucus Interview and Responses

Met Council board not big transit riders, survey finds | startribune

Prison vs. Airport

NCITE/ITSO Joint Meeting: October 22: BRT at Metro Transit

The Transportation Experience: Second Edition, is available on Apple iBooks

"It's a success"

The Transportationist is on MPR's Daily Circuit. Today 10 am Central.

The Evolution of the Green Line: A Retrospective

Access Across America: Transit 2014 Coverage

Access Across America: Transit 2014 ... #accessjobstransit

8 trains, 2 buses, and 2 planes

Then and Now: University of Minnesota | streets.mn

The Road to Vision Zero Has Some Bumps In It | NY City Lens

How to account for higher quality of service in Benefit/Cost Analysis

One Way to Deal With a Desire Line | streets.mn

A clean well lighted place for cars

The Transportation Experience: From Steamboats to Streetcars.

Autonomous Vehicles: The Legal and Policy Road Ahead

Land Value Capture Presentation

The forgotten discovery of gravity models and the inefficiency of early railway networks

ISYE Faculty Opening at University of Minnesota

Transit Station and Stop Design and Travel Time Perceptions

Preserving Data for Future Research

Highway Boondoggles | US PIRG

Bus stop amenities shorten wait | MnDaily

Rail-volution: Value Capture: Myth or Reality?

Four on Green Line / Green Lights

Frank-Lyn - Thinking about streets and places in three dimensions. | streets.mn

Interview with the Minnesota Civic Caucus

Privilege or Right

Fresh Data Hints at How to Close Biking’s Gender Gap | Wired

Safety is a shared responsibility

The Free Capital Fallacy: Some observations on capital and operating costs of various transit technologies in the Minneapolis St. Paul region

America's Accessible Cities | Huffington Post

Factors Associated with the Gender Gap in Bicycling Over Time

Using principles of justice to assess the modal equity of regional transportation plans

Part 6: Political parties, three-axes, and public transport - A summary

Part 5: Why Greens should like buses

Part 4: Why Libertarians should like buses

Part 3: Why Republicans should like buses

Part 2: Why Democrats should like buses

Part 1: Political parties, three-axes, and public transport - An Introduction

"Minneapolis Needs a Subway" - Comments on the Metropolitan Council's Transportation Policy Plan | streets.mn

Minneapolis cyclists battle for a place in traffic | City Pages

"I Am Not Your Brother" - St. Paul Cops Allegedly Taser and Arrest Black Male for Sitting in Public Space (Video) | streets.mn

Incremental Accessibility Benefits and Choice of Subscriptions for High-Occupancy Toll Lanes

Indifference Bands for Route Switching

Dogfooding: Why Transit Employees and Managers Should Use Transit

Introduction to Transportation Engineering: Videos now available

Infrastructure Spending: Are Buses The Answer? | Daily Caller

Study examines link between road networks and economic development |CTS Catalyst

Reality intrudes upon Obama’s bullet train fantasy | AEI

Should light rail get priority at St. Paul stoplights | Pioneer Press

The happy commuter: A comparison of commuter satisfaction across modes

Here is exactly the sort of infrastructure spending Republicans should support | AEI Ideas

Differences Between Walking and Bicycling Over Time: Implications for Performance Measurement

Main Street - Excelsior | streets.mn

Alternative High Occupancy/Toll Lane Pricing Strategies and their Effect on Market Share

Five questions about public transit, rail vs. bus, and gentrification

Green Line / Green Lights

Real Money with Ali Velshi: Wednesday <strike>6:30</strike> 6:00 pm

Second Class

Access Across America Pooled Fund Webinar

Buses and railroad crossings

Are our roads really more congested | StarTribune

Fixing it first, the White House is on-board

How much does driving your car cost, per minute?

Accessibility and the Allocation of Time: Changes in Travel Behavior 1990-2010

Accessibility and the choice of network investments in the London Underground

Developing a Comprehensive US Transit Accessibility Database

Transportation Engineering Faculty Position

Chicago Transit Accessibility 7–9 AM (Video)

Construction closes road. Neighbor opens bypass. Govt. upset.

We don't pay enough for transportation

Ridership projections reveal tricky calculus for transit planners | strib

Minnesota Transportation Roundtable: Friday Aug. 1 at 6:30pm on KSTP-TV (Channel 5)

Transfer penalties

The Missing Link: Bicycle Infrastructure Networks and Ridership in 74 US Cities.

Journal of Transport and Land Use 7(2)

Road Pricing in the United States

Adventures on Transit in the Suburbs | streets.mn

Chart of the Day: Steam vs. Sail

Riverview Corridor - Some History

The Futurist Fallacy

Street Network Structure and Activity Spaces

Good Transit - Transit as a Good

It's "only" 5 minutes, or Green Line Delay Monetized

The Transportation Empowerment Act vs. Phasing in Devolution One EV at a Time

The Transportation Empowerment Act as a Model for Conservative Policymakers | The Agenda

Just say 'no' to a gas tax increase | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Green Line's first month is in the books | Star Tribune

Changing demographics and travel choices may shape a very different future

Chart of the Day: Liner Transatlantic Crossing Time

You don't have to live like a refugee | streets.mn

Chart of the Day: Post in the US

Chart of the Day: Turnpikes in the US

Chart of the Day: Canals in the US

Main Street - Chisago City and Lindstrom | streets.mn

Rural Netherlands

Constraints drive progress

Houten - bike city

Rotterdam

Cars Are Getting Greener. Here's A High Tech Alternative To The Gas Tax. | ThinkProgress

Delft

Dinkytown Greenway: Bluff Street vs. St. Anthony Main | streets.mn

One word - Plasticity

Junkets

24 hours of transit in Greater Toronto (visualization)

Lisa Schweitzer Part 6: Local Funding

Vienna waits for you

Lisa Schweitzer Part 5: Asset values

Lisa Schweitzer Part 4: Capital Cost Recovery

Podcast #66 – Riding the Green Line with David Levinson | streets.mn

Lisa Schweitzer Part 3: Farecards

Lisa Schweitzer Part 2: Competitive tendering

Portland street fee: Is the obscure formula that determines what you pay 'imperfect,' or plain unfair?

Robert Poole on Mass Transit Financial Stability.

Funding the future of transportation (audio)

What if we made transportation systems regulated public utilities? | MinnPost

MPR's The Daily Circuit: Friday 9 am CDT

WSTLUR 2014

The Triumphant Return of Private U.S. Passenger Rail | CityLab

Don't Walk | streets.mn

Lisa Schweitzer on transit’s financial sustainability | Urban ethics and theory

Bus Toll Lanes

A First Ride on the Green Line - 14 Random Thoughts | streets.mn

I-495 bridge closure a 'national issue' | Delaware online

27 - Minnesota Mobility (Um cenário para 2020)

Time to walk: A brief excursion into a needless incursion on the law-abiding pedestrian's time

An S-Curve for All Knowledge

Cars and Civilization

1920-1995 Twin Cities State Highway Network

Border effects - Why my neighborhood is rich in car2go

Financing Transportation Networks

How to Make Mass Transit Financially Sustainable Once and for All | CityLab

Green cities are more pleasant

Future of the Federal Role in Transportation (webinar now online)

Driving transit retention to renaissance: Trends in Montreal commute public transport mode share and factors by age group and birth cohort

Metering Motoring | streets.mn

HOT or not: Driver elasticity to price on the MnPASS HOT lanes

Billing systems - necessary for roads to become utilities

Future of the Federal Role in Transportation - slides

The Future of the Federal Role in Transportation | Council of State Governments

Future of the Federal Role in Transportation: Thursday, May 29, 2-3 p.m. EDT

Wanting to Drive and Quality of Driving

Redesigning places and networks for autonomous vehicles (Fast Roads - Slow Streets)

Speed Control in Israel (updated)

More on "Transport as Utility"

Transport as Utility

Rivalry and Anti-rivalry, Excludability and Anti-excludability

MUCH ado about something: An economic framework

Minnesota Mobility (A scenario for 2020)

Washington Avenue SE Revisited | streets.mn

A twitter conversation about Uber

Is Uber worth $10 B?

The End of Car Culture? Socio-Demographic Trends and Travel Demand

Flashing red at Franklin Avenue/East River Road/27th

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Shockwave Formation and Dissipation

Starkville, Mississippi

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Shockwaves

The US needs better roads and bridges–and less congestion–but not a higher federal gasoline tax |AEIdeas

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Traffic Flow

Flipping Signals

Cancelled <strike>Seminar: The Impact of Activities Conducted while Traveling on Mode Choice: An Investigation of Northern California Commuters</strike>

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Queueing - Tollbooth Example

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Stochastic Queueing - Probabilistic Distributions

Seven types of urban redevelopment sites | streets.mn

Sioux City Safety

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Stochastic Queues

Question: When will a robot car win a car race against human drivers?

The Unpopular Step That Would Popularize Electric Vehicles | Atlantic Cities

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Deterministic Queues

Detritus of Winter

The economics of proposal writing

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Introduction to Queueing

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Perspectives on Efficiency

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Designing for Dynamic Systems

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Diamond of Evaluation

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Choosing Measures of Effectiveness

Measuring Access

Electric Antecedents: How the Electric Vehicle Evolved | The Transportation Experience

Minneapolis man survives – and thrives – without a car | Star Tribune

Electric Avenue: How to Make Zero-Emissions Cars Go Mainstream | Foreign Affairs May/June 2014

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Benefit/Cost Analysis - An Example

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Benefit/Cost Analysis - Value of Time

Access by Nice Ride | streets.mn

Simulating Cities with OpenStreetMap and OpenTripPlanner Analyst

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Benefit/Cost Analysis - Value of Life

INSTR 2015

Journal of Transport and Land Use 7(1)

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Benefit/Cost Analysis - Consumers' and Producer's Surplus

New Idea to Pay for Street Repairs Across Minnesota | kstp

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Benefit/Cost Analysis

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Route Choice User Equilibrium Problems

New commuter rail link ready to roll in central Florida

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - User Equilibrium

WSTLUR 2014 Registration

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Route Choice

Always Green Traffic Control

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Balancing A Matrix

Bike to Work Day: Progress in Minnesota by Miles to Go

T2_P2 Podcast

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Solving For Impedance

The Theater of Public Policy - in Tweets

up Lyft

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Matrix Math

Diagonals | streets.mn

Improv-ing Transportation: Transit Revolution or a Streetcar to Heck?

The "Transportationist" on T2P2

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Destination Choice

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Mode Choice Problem

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Mode Choice

The Low Line | streets.mn

Minnezona – Or a Solution to Our Climate Crisis |streets.mn

Solving climate variability

One day of the Divvy bicycle-share system

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Normalization

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Trip Generation

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Planning

Study says Blue Line's development impact is minimal | Star Tribune

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Hierarchy of Roads

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Models

Making I-94 Better: Or Toward 3-D Urbanism | streets.mn

Hennepin-Lyndale Avenue traffic bottleneck to get a face-lift

Introduction to Transportation Engineering - Decision Making

Ice, Ice Lately

Twin Cities Rapid Transit, Southwest LRT, and Prospect Theory | streets.mn

Are you down with DST?

Minneapolis-St. Paul is No. 16 on the list of America’s worst traffic cities | Star-Tribune

Transit Revolution or a Streetcar to Heck? | The Theater of Public Policy

Women work closer to home

'Lexus lanes' and the price of saving time | Marketplace

The Road Ahead: County Transportation Funding and Financing

Trying To Free Up 95 Express, FDOT Prices 'Lexus Lanes' At Lamborghini Rates

Maturity of Bike Share Systems

Charts of the Day | streets.mn

Lord Gordon-Gordon | streets.mn

Mount Transit, Mount Auto, Mount Next

Call for Host 2017 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research

WSTLUR Registration

Imagine: A World Where Nobody Owns Their Own Car - Eric Jaffe - The Atlantic Cities

Emissions, Equilibrium, and the $10 Bill

Peak Shopping and the Decline of Traditional Retail

About Davis

Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics

About Hayward

The Land of Make-Believe - streets.mn

Traffic Jams Make Cities Splinter into Subcenters: A rule of urban expansion could guide smarter growth - SciAm

About Berkeley

Peer-to-peer car sharing gains momentum within rental car industry

Overshoot and the Selective Pruning - WalkableDFW

Travels through California: Berkeley to Davis via BART and Amtrak

Travels to California

Do Smartphone Traffic Apps Really Work? - Strib

Job Opening: Director of Coordinated Research at CTS (UMN)

The Transportation Experience (20% discount from publisher)

INSTR 2015 The 6th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

Atlanta's Total Lack of Preparedness - CNN.com

Commuter Rail Ridership Declining Despite Increase in Lines

Is The End of Road-building like the Closing of the Frontier?

This Map Wants to Change How You Think About Your Commute - Atlantic Cities

Lean Management of Toll Roads

Main Street - St. Paul (7th St. W. (Ft. Rd.) (Mn. 5))

Exploring Nice Ride job accessibility and station choice

California Travels

The hITE of absurdity: Minimum Parking in an era of Declining Traffic

Transportation's New Wave

HOT or Not: Driver Elasticity to Price and Alternative Pricing Strategies on the MnPASS HOT Lanes

The Transportation Experience: Cover Art

'The Transportation Experience'

Basic Employment vs. Sectors with Spillovers

Main Street – Austin | streets.mn

The Transportation Experience - Reviewer Comments

Nexus Group at TRB 2014

Taxonomy of Shared Vehicle New Mobility Options

Bastion of Socialism

1958 Twin Cities Land Use Map - Archived

RTA Transit Innovations Series

When will we reach peak road?