The Transportist: March 2018
Welcome to the March 2018 issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.
Thank you to all who purchased Elements of Access. Copies are still available.
Book: Metropolitan Transport and Land Use
As cities around the globe respond to rapid technological changes and political pressures, coordinated transport and land use planning is an often targeted aim.
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use, the second edition of Planning for Place and Plexus, provides unique and updated perspectives on metropolitan transport networks and land use planning, challenging current planning strategies, offering frameworks to understand and evaluate policy, and suggesting alternative solutions.
The book includes current and cutting-edge theory, findings, and recommendations which are cleverly illustrated throughout using international examples. This revised work continues to serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy advisors working across transport, land use, and planning.
PURCHASE
Barnes and Noble (Nook – eBook)
Transportist Posts
Transport News
HPVs/Bikes/Pedestrians
Lyft is teaming up with Baltimore’s bike-share system Deal includes co-located hubs at five branded stations theverge.com
Across the country, American's applaud new protected car lanes — Broken Sidewalk
Rise of the ebike: how going electric could revolutionise your ride - The Guardian
Sales of e-bikes to pass 20,000 a year [in New Zealand] - stuff.co.nz
Uber is jumping on the dockless bike-share bandwagon Teaming up with Jump for a limited trial in San Francisco - theverge.com
Aviation
Transit
New rail links to Badgerys Creek airport to be signature projects - SMH
Longer trips for light rail passengers without green-light priority - SMH
Is it real? Photo of railway track bent by the heat looks fake but isn't - The Age
Germany considers to fight pollution with free public transportation - WaPo
Sydney Metro and light rail will allow the city to grow for next 40 years - SMH
MTA Reminds New Yorkers They Can Fucking Walk - The Onion
The infrastructure boom cometh Australia’s infrastructure boom is getting stronger for longer. SMH
Roads
Why Some Stops Are a Cut Above the Rest Trump infrastructure plan would improve highway amenities. wsj.com
Blind Faith: unlocking the secrets of WestConnex michaelwest.com.au
Why speeding is so dangerous - Kottke.org
It's Time to Make Every Road a Toll Road The gas tax is bad, and there's a better way forward. wired.com
This is how WestConnex can deliver Sydney a better city centre - theconversation.com
Leaked figures reveal extent of motorists avoiding tolls on Sydney's M4 - SMH
AVs
What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap? - Freakonomics
EVs
Solar 'tsunami' coming in Australia as NSW accelerates approvals - SMH
German court opens the way for bans of diesel vehicles, roiling a nation of car obsessives - WaPo
SVs/Taxis/Car Sharing
New "Shared Mobility Principles" have too much 2018 thinking. - Brad Templeton
Uber to sell Southeast Asia unit to Grab: Report - economictimes.indiatimes.com
HGVs/Freight/Delivery/Retail
Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS - WSJ
Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm Nobody ever said, Curbsides are cool. Perhaps that’s why we so often overlook curbs – one of a city’s most valuable assets. - Longitudes (UPS)
Intercity Rail
Bullet Trains Are Transforming the World's Biggest Migration China's spending $556 billion on expanding its rail network. bloomberg.com
Land Use
Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City Silicon Valley wants to save cities. What could go wrong? [New York Times]
Gehry Partners to design Extreme Model Railroad Museum - Archpaper
Google’s Guinea-Pig City Will Toronto turn its residents into Alphabet’s experiment? The answer has implications for cities everywhere. theatlantic.com
Science
Economics
Smart money: a better way for Australia to select big transport infrastructure projects [Use a realistic discount rate]- The Conversation
Hyperbolic discounting — The irrational behavior that might be rational after all - Chris Said
Joe Hockey's infrastructure scheme raises interest in the Trump White House - SMH
Not Everything Is Broken with U.S. Transportation and Water Infrastructure - Rand
Telecommunications
Justice/Equity
The Case for Decriminalizing Fare Evasion - Streetsblog
Visa policy for overseas students with a disability is nonsensical and discriminatory - The Conversation
Security
Research
Standen, Chris (2018) The value of slow travel. Ph.D. Dissertation
Books
Now available:
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. 342 pages, 164 Images (most in color). Published by the Network Design Lab.
Nothing in cities makes sense except in the light of accessibility. Transport cannot be understood without reference to the location of activities (land use), and vice versa. To understand one requires understanding the other. However, for a variety of historical reasons, transport and land use are quite divorced in practice. Typical transport engineers only touch land use planning courses once at most, and only then if they attend graduate school. Land use planners understand transport the way everyone does, from the perspective of the traveler, not of the system, and are seldom exposed to transport aside from, at best, a lone course in graduate school. This text aims to bridge the chasm, helping engineers understand the elements of access that are associated not only with traffic, but also with human behavior and activity location, and helping planners understand the technology underlying transport engineering, the processes, equations, and logic that make up the transport half of the accessibility measure. It aims to help both communicate accessibility to the public.
Purchase:
PDF (Electronic Download) (on Gumroad)... $8.88
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Still available ...
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape. [3rd Edition] By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.
In this book we propose the welcome notion that traffic—as most people have come to know it—is ending and why. We depict a transport context in most communities where new opportunities are created by the collision of slow, medium, and fast moving technologies. We then unfold a framework to think more broadly about concepts of transport and accessibility. In this framework, transport systems are being augmented with a range of information technologies; it invokes fresh flows of goods and information. We discuss large scale trends that are revolutionizing the transport landscape: electrification, automation, the sharing economy, and big data. Based on all of this, the final chapters offer strategies to shape the future of infrastructure needs and priorities.
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