The Transportist: March 2017
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The Transportist: March 2017
Welcome to the sixth issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.
Transportist Posts
Transit Ridership
Retail
Fantasy
Infrastructure
Talking about Infrastructure (me on MPR). You can find the podcast of the show here.
Transcript of “The Economics for and Against Trump’s Infrastructure Plan”. (me on NPR)
Professoring
Transport News
The Economy and Suburbanization
'It's getting worse': An increasing number of Americans have stopped paying their car loans (Business Insider)
The Urban Inversion Is Over – In a State of Migration And It Was Exaggerated to Begin With medium.com (Lyman Stone)
Americans’ Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year The suburbanization of America marches on. (Jed Kolko, 538)
Little Canada’s “Other” Transportation Infrastructure: Transit, Part Two (streets.mn)
Funding/Financing|Public/Private
Remember: Public-Private Partnerships Aren't Free (Laura Bliss at CityLab)
Can Canada’s infrastructure bank clear backlogs? (Finance-Commerce)
NSW Minister Andrew Constance says tech advances will see end of government supplied transport (Australian Financial Review)
Oregon to seek federal approval for tolls on metro freeways (Oregon Live)
Self-Driving Cars Can’t Cure Traffic, but Economics Can. (NY Times)
Chao says U.S. drivers may face more tolls to raise infrastructure funds (WaPo)
This is how you fix Metro’s funding problems [Value Capture] (Greater Greater Washington)
Trump wants to do tax reform and infrastructure at the same time (Axios)
Health
Driving Fee Rolls Back Asthma Attacks in Stockholm (Inside Science)
AVs
How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles (Scientific American)
A trap for self-driving cars (Kottke)
Air and Space
Building airports is expensive. Why not use the ones we have? (Bloomberg)
Space X plans global space internet (Kurzweil)
No One Has Gotten Lucky In Space (Maggie Koerth-Baker 538)
Taxis
(And you thought February was a bad month for Uber)
How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide (NY Times)
Uber president Jeff Jones just went full on #DeleteUber and resigned (Mashable)
Engineers at Uber's self-driving unit passed around 'Safety Third' stickers as a joke (CNBC)
Why America needs more Teslas and fewer Ubers (Tim Lee at Vox)
Uber is more fragile than other major tech companies (Tim Lee at Vox)
Uber Case Could Be a Watershed for Women in Tech (Farhad Manjoo at NY Times)
In Video, Uber CEO Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares (Eric Newcomer at Bloomberg)
Uber’s autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken over at every mile (Recode)
Uber suspends testing of self-driving cars after crash (WaPo) [Temporarily Suspended]
Q&A: LibreTaxi's Roman Pushkin (Shareable)
Uber oplyser på et pressemøde, at det er slut med at drive personkørsel i Danmark efter politisk aftale om en ny taxilov. (Nyhader) [Uber is shutting down in Denmark after new taxi law did not provide hoped for deregulation (I don't speak Danish)]
EVs
Parking
Using Machine Learning to Predict Parking Difficulty Google Maps now tackles parking problems as well. (iot-for-all)
Subways in Toronto, 'Trackless-Trams' in Sydney
Most Scarborough residents will be on the bus longer with subway option, analysis finds (Toronto Star)
Globe editorial: The Scarborough subway, a boondoggle on rails [The Toronto Globe and Mail]
'Game-changer': the public transport plan for Parramatta Road (Sydney Morning Herald) [Trackless-trams are of course, electric buses]
Construction/De-Construction
“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US (Ars Technica)
Omaha’s Answer to Costly Potholes? Go Back to Gravel Roads (NY Times)
This house was 3D-printed in just 24 hours (Mashable)
Watch an Army of Dump Trucks Team Up to Repave a Russian Street (Popular Mechanics)
Nimuno's Lego Tape Turns Anything Into A Lego-Friendly Surface (Daily Dot)
Equity
Cops confiscate hundreds of illegal e-bikes in Manhattan (amny.com)
Jaywalking Crackdown: ‘A Tax On Poor People,’ Light-Rail Riders Complain (Phoenix New Times)
History
Miscellany
Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future (Javadi et al. (2017) Nature Communications)
John Snow’s Grant Application (Epidemiology)
Convergent con artists: How rove beetles keep evolving into army ant parasites (EurekAlert AAAS)
Pseudo-science
Two Cities, Two Times ... In May 1965 Saint Paul actually did do daylight saving time differently than Minneapolis. (Evan Roberts streets.mn)
Open Media
LBRY Saves 20,000 Courses from the ADA (Marginal Revolution)
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