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Death by congestion - should we care?

A Markov Chain Model of Land Use Change

The case of the missing traffic growth in the Rochester - Minneapolis Corridor

Prospect Park North – A Street Network | streets.mn

Diverging Private and Public Tracks: Transportation Policy and Practices in 2015

Is the $485M St. Paul-to-Woodbury Gold Line bus worth it?

Automobile Accessibility and the Allocation of Time – 1990-2010

Mutual causality in road network growth and economic development

JTLU 8(3)

Nexus at TRB 2016

Ontario to experiment with high-occupancy toll lanes on highways | Globe and Mail

Wye Not? | streets.mn

The future of traffic congestion

Presenting at Penn State: Observing Accessibility

Minneapolis Grand Rounds + Saint Paul Grand Round = Twin Cities Grand Infinity | streets.mn

Accepting risks

Modernizing American Transportation Policy

JTLU is now indexed in SSCI

Rethinking American Transportation Policy

MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITIES MANDATE LETTER

The Museum of Surface Parking | streets.mn

Streets.mn Gets Results | streets.mn

Information measures and cognitive limits in multilayer navigation

HOT Lanes in the United States | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Food and alcohol expenditure by shares | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

MnPASS pricing algorithm to become a continuous function.

Growth of Bike Sharing Systems Globally | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

How the World Beats Traffic | Ecofiscal Commission

North American Carsharing | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Sales of Electric Vehicles | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Pieces of Mail Handled | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Riding in a Tesla with AutoPilot (2015)

Mode Shares 2001 vs. 2011 | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

US Retail Gasoline Price | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

How the World Beats Traffic

So how, exactly, do officials figure out how many people will use mass transit projects? | MinnPost

INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF AUTONOMOUS CARS

Travel by Purpose per Household | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Domestic freight by mode | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Time spent shopping per day | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Telecommuting in the Minneapolis - St. Paul Region | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Annual Hours of Work | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Labor Force Participation Rates | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

StrongTowns Podcast 256: David Levinson and The End of Traffic

Age Groups in US 2014 | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Average Trip Distance by Age and Year of Birth Cohort | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Person Trips per Day by Age and Year of Birth | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Total time spent traveling per capita | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Registered motor vehicles in the US | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

No New Roads: A Strategy for the Future of Transport | Strong Towns

Roadways per Capita in US |The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Metro Transit adding information at bus stops - Signs that now simply say “Bus stop” will be replaced for ones with route numbers and other information.

Climbing Mount Auto | The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Is it time to talk about re-nationalizing the railroads?

The Empire Strikes Back, or ‘One Way to Deal with a Desire Line’ Redux. | streets.mn

Public Transit Does Not Have to Reduce Traffic Congestion to Succeed

Kudos to the University of Minnesota and City of Minneapolis | streets.mn

Historic US GIS transportation SHP files

Our use of impact factors is backwards

Where have all the masons gone?

Temporal Sampling Intervals and Service Frequency Harmonics in Transit Accessibility Evaluation

How I spent 200 minutes last night, or Tim Cook and Jonny Ive should buy their iPhones in the Apple Store

Symposium in Urban Systems (October 1, 2015 in Tempe, Arizona)

Why is the walking man white?

Does telecommuting alter travel behavior and residential choice?

Job Accessibility Cars vs. Transit

Pollution Taxes and an Environmental Trust Fund

Shut up and take my money - Before I board

Chart of the Day: Climbing “Mount Auto”

3 Videos on public transit operations (bunching, access, egress)

New Ways of Counting Pedestrians Could Change City Planning Forever | Next City

Are environmental regulations truly transportation bottlenecks?

Congestion, accessibility, and the future of transportation metrics

Circuity in Urban Transit Networks

Main Street - Grand Marais, Minnesota | streets.mn

Update: The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport is now available at the iBookstore.

An empirical study of the deviation between actual and shortest travel time paths

Handbook on Transport and Development

Accessibility Analysis of Risk Severity

What if the University of Minnesota had 100,000 students?

Toll Road Bill Phishing Scam

Road network structure and speeding using GPS data

Towards a Metropolitan Fundamental Diagram using Travel Survey Data

Axis of travel: Modeling non-work destination choice with GPS data.

Broadacre City in Minnesota

Testable Prediction: Fleet Electrification and Autonomy, each with > 50% share of new vehicles by about 2030.

Is Bicycling Contagious? Effects of Bike Share Stations and Activity on System Membership and General Population Cycling

Maximum Homerdrive, On Deployment of Driverless Cars and Trucks

Evaluating the “Safety In Numbers” Effect With Estimated Pedestrian Activity

Accessibility and Centrality Based Estimation of Urban Pedestrian Activity

Cohort Effects and Their Influence on Car Ownership

New Book: The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport

Accessibility and Transit Performance

Physical Activity in School Travel: A Cross-Nested Logit Approach

Intra-household Bargaining for School Trip Accompaniment of Children: A Group Decision Approach with Altruism

“Transit Makes you Short”: On Health Impact Assessment of Transportation and the Built Environment

Main Street - Thunder Bay, Ontario | streets.mn

The five stages of roadspace repurposing

Do People Use the Shortest Path? An Empirical Test of Wardrop’s First Principle

The cost of equity: Assessing transit accessibility and social disparity using total travel cost

Transit Riders’ Perception of Waiting Time and Stops’ Surrounding Environments

Now Exempt | streets.mn

Pavement markings near Green Line platforms aim to steer pedestrians clear of danger

Elements of Access: Platooning

Accessibility and the Ring of Unreliability

Analyzing Multiday Route Choice Behavior using GPS Data

Travel Behavior Over Time

Journal of Transport and Land Use Vol 8, No 2 (2015)

Main Street - Hutchinson, Minnesota | streets.mn

U of M Accessibility Observatory announces partnership with TomTom to create national dataset of access to jobs

The race is on to figure out what self-driving cars should look like | WaPo

Open Traffic

TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment

Elements of Access: The Fundamental Diagram

Main Street - New Ulm, Minnesota | streets.mn

Left-Right convergence on Highways.

Beijing: CICTP 2015

Climbing Mount Next: The Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Society

Uber in Montreal

Thoughts on Transit and Urban Form

Using Multiday GPS Data - Webinar

A sad bike route in Minneapolis | streets.mn

Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference: August 26-27, Dallas Texas

Kerb your Enthusiasm | streets.mn

Open Source Trip Generation

Do Not Wait Here |streets.mn

A Tree Dies in Minneapolis, or 'One Way to Deal with a Desire Line' Revisited | streets.mn

Main Street - Mahtowa, Minnesota |streets.mn

Deadly hours for bicyclists on area roadways: 6, 10 p.m.

Elements of Access: Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow

The road as an Ecosystem in the 21st Century

Frontiers, or Values as Instruments

What is the capacity of I-94?

Pathways

Dispirited - A review of Sprit Airlines

Aerodynamics and the location of first class

I feel Comcastic

Accessibility and the choice of network investments in the London Underground

HOT Lanes are on fire

Detours and induced demand

Green Line and related bus network improvements increase access to jobs

Beneficiaries, Not Taxpayers, Should Fund Modern Streetcars

MnPASS Modeling and Pricing Algorithm Enhancement

With driving down, there's a growing backlash against unnecessary highways | Vox.com

Child savings accounts should replace tax credits and deductions

Mapping Metropolitan Chicago’s Accessibility

Presents to our future selves

Elements of Access: Flow and Following

O.C.'s proposed 'Lexus lanes' may see more Toyotas | OC Register

Total time spent traveling per capita has declined 8 percent in the past decade.

Forthcoming papers in JTLU

New Access Across America report ranks accessibility to jobs by walking in top U.S. cities

Kevin Krizek on Bicycling in the Netherlands

Elements of Access: Queues

Five myths about traffic

New analysis shows far more Twin Cities residents walking, biking to work

Elements of Access: Time is Mis-underestimated (Vierordt’s Law)

Vandalism or terrorism

Budget Cuts to Blame? With Amtrak, Smaller May Be Better, Experts Say - US News

Biking and walking are on the rise in the Twin Cities

Where can you walk to work? Study ranks cities for accessibility to jobs by walking

For whom is transit?

Regulating Aerial Drones: An Undiscovered Country

Elements of Access: One-Way Streets

Elements of Access: Why the home addresses of your friends are causing global warming

Journal of Transport and Land Use Vol 8, No 1 (2015)

The Purpose of Peer Review

Søüthstår: What If the Southwestern Suburbs Were Served by Commuter Rail?

What is the capacity of the Green Line?

Shørtstår: What if the Northstar were a local

U researcher rates MN’s travel accessibility

ITSO TransTalk Seminar: April 24: What happens downstream of a bottleneck does not always stay downstream.

Elements of Access: Our travel is constrained

Help liberate funds from Venture Capitalists

JTLU at UDC

The missing link: bike network quality boosts bike commuting

Thredbo 14: 14th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport

Main Street – St. Bonifacius, Minnesota

Elements of Access: Spontaneous Priority

What is Subsidy?

Elements of Access: Diurnal Curve

Elements of Access: Turning their backs, opening their arms: the Radburn system

Groper Trains Accommodate a Variety of Tactile Preferences

Monty Python and Delaware's tax system – happy together

No Outlet: A Review of Twin Cities Premium Outlets

Modeling the commute mode share of transit using continuous accessibility to jobs

Elements of Access: Risk Compensation

Multiday GPS Travel Behavior Data for Travel Analysis

Role Model

Elements of Access: Resilience

MARC - Multi-Agent Route Choice Game

Map of the Day: Accessibility to Jobs by Transit 7-9 am in Twin Cities

Elements of Access: What are we talking about, when we talk about trips?

Shaping a new funding model for public transit in Quebec

TCRG: Observing Accessibility

What if car driving is like playing chess

Governing transit: the regulated public utility | CityBlock

Elements of Access: Induced Demand

William Louis Garrison (1924-2015)

The Growth the New York Subway System

Minnesotans driving less, biking and walking more A study shows Minnesotans were traveling less in 2010 than in 2000. | MnDaily

Elements of Access: Layers

Our hatred of taxes, demands for services conflict | Wilmington News Journal

Speculative Hypothesis: Planners' discount rates are too low

Rising gas prices might make us safer

Stochastic Congestion and Pricing Model with Endogenous Departure Time Selection and Heterogeneous Travelers

Elements of Access: Constant Travel Time Budgets?

St. Cloud Winter Institute

Travel behavior study shows drivers are spending less time traveling and more time at home

Better job accessibility drives MnPASS subscriptions

Motor-vehicle-pollutants portion rising?, falling?, what?!

Ten-Week Summer Engineering Research Program for Undergraduate Students

Elements of Access: Shared Spaces

Suncoast Parkway extension will not bring economic boon

Minnesota Compass

Assessment of Bicycle Service Areas around Transit Stations

Minnesota debates 'value capture' tax for road projects | Pioneer Press

Main Street - St. Peter, Minnesota

Elements of Access: Hierarchy of Roads

Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities

Switch

Seminar: Gravity Models, Information Flows, and Inefficiency of Early Railroad Networks

Light Years of Travel

Is reducing negative externalities a positive externality? (Or on Biking and Vikings)

Transit shelters and other amenities affect perceived wait times

Autonomous vehicles: The legal and policy road ahead

School Miles vs. School Choice

Main Street - Le Sueur, Minnesota

Virtual Traffic Lights Could Revolutionize City Driving - [Or Not] |TechNewsWorld

Prices before Pavements

Imagine

Charlotte, North Carolina

Dallas, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Twin Cities seven-county sales tax for transit

Bicycle Trust Fund

The sales tax on fuel vs. the gas tax

TRB 2015

Should we raise the federal gasoline tax?

Why batteries will defeat fuel cells for electric vehicles

Gas prices and fatalities

Gogoro: The Little Electric Scooter That Could? | TechNewsWorld

Happy 70th Birthday, Highway Statistics

Main Street - Gaylord, Minnesota

The Transportation Futures project [Open Thread]