The Transportist: December 2016

Welcome to the third issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. I am publishing a bit earlier this month in advance of Saturnalia, Festivus, the Solstice, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa and whatever else you might celebrate.

Transportist Posts

• On Academic Rankings

• On Guilds and the University

• Interview with Economy Chosun

• On Supercommuters

• On ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Smart Growth’

• Standardization is the enemy of Innovation

• On the Value of Connected Vehicles

• Boon or Boondoggle

• Newark International Airport to New York City by Trains

• Meditations on Metrorail and Maintenance

• Goodbye, Car2Go; what’s next for car-sharing? | Star Tribune

Recent Research

• Accessibility and the Ring of Unreliability​

Transport News

• Uber launches self-driving car in San Francisco, runs red light, says it was human error, is shut down anyway for being illegal - The Guardian

• India plans to use Jet engines to blast pollutants above inversion layer. - BBC

• Google is launching a new self-driving car company called Waymo - Vox

• Maybe urban truck traffic isn’t rising after all - SSTI

• ​Michigan lets self-driving cars on roads without human drivers - CNBC (h/t Chris Dixon)

• Elementary School Drop-off (Video) (h/t Aaron Naparstek)

• California gives Nvidia the go-ahead to test self-driving cars on public roads​ - Verge

• It’s Time to Set Broadway Free - NY Times

• Google’s former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company​ - Recode

• Mobile is eating the world - Ben Evans

• Power and Utility Megaprojects Run 35% Over Budget on Average​ - TD World

• I asked the general public to contribute their ideas about Australia’s productivity challenges. You won’t believe what happened next.- Thomas the Think Engine

• Why Monorails Are the Future (Really This Time) - Adam Minter, Bloomberg

• Tinker With a Neural Network Right Here in Your Browser. Don’t Worry, You Can’t Break It. We Promise.​

• Re: Amazon Go: Some imaginary futuristic bullshit from a decade ago -- IBM RFID Commercial - The Future Market​

• Amazon unveils smart convenience store sans checkouts, cashiers​ - Seattle Times

• Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure​ - The Washington Post

• The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets​ - Streetsblog

• George Hotz is giving away the code behind his self-driving car project - The Verge

• "An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions" - PLoS One

• Stand Clear Of The Doors: TV Finally Gets On Board With Mass Transit​ - WNYC

• Intel creates a dedicated autonomous driving technology group - TechCrunch

• Over a Half-Million plug-in cars have been sold in the US - US DOE

• Airport Privatization - Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution

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