Archive - Transportist

Chose your fatality

Personal safety often gets more attention than road safety.

Sep 29 • David Levinson

Designing for Quiet

Below summarises my presentation at a Forum on Vehicle-Generated Noise Pollution at New South Wales Parliament House on September 23.

Sep 24 • David Levinson

Universities: Selecting, Teaching, or Certifying?

There is a conflict at the heart of higher education: we are rewarded for teaching students and graduating them, but trusted to uphold standards that…

Sep 16 • David Levinson

Congratulations to Dr.

Sep 15 • David Levinson

A communication-free decentralised two-dimensional trajectory controller for autonomous vehicles on a lane-free road: A level-k game…

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Sep 9 • David Levinson

Fare enough: A quantitative spatial transport model for transit pricing

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Sep 8 • David Levinson

Transportist: September 2026

If you are reading this I survived open heart surgery to remove a Myxoma from my left atrium.

Sep 2 • David Levinson

August 2026

How Borderline High Cholesterol Saved My Life

I have returned to work after an unplanned excursion into the Australian health care system, including open-heart surgery.

Aug 31 • David Levinson

Testing Pedestrian Flow and Delay Estimation from First-Actuation Latency

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Aug 24 • David Levinson

Writing vs Editing, Abundance vs Scarcity, Creation vs Curation

Writing and editing are, ideally, two stages in a complete creative process, yet we often prioritise the act of creation over the art of curation.

Aug 19 • David Levinson

Urban enshittification

When there's an ad-wrapper on the bus you ride, so you can’t clearly see outside, that’s enshittification.When someone leaves a shared e-bike on the…

Aug 17 • David Levinson

July 2026

Transportist: August 2026

Most of you received the TransportLab: July 2026 post, so I gave you a pause.

Jul 28 • David Levinson

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