The Transportist: May 2017
Welcome to the May 2017 issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. It is early this month since I will be going inside the great-firewall shortly.
Transportist Jobs
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Transportist Posts
Sydney
California
Atlanta
Media
Evaluation
Transport News
Sydney
WestConnex: City of Sydney proposes abandoning stage three connection between M4, M5 - ABC
Sydney Metro – a brief guide to a complex history - Strategic Matters
Sydney Airport finally turns down chance to build new airport at Badgerys Creek - SMH
Deluge of complaints put Inner West bus services off road - Telegraph
Sydney bus privatisation - SMH
The Sydney suburbs with the best access to jobs, shops and services - SMH
Transit
Toronto: Defending Transit's Right to Move - Jarrett Walker at Human Transit
Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus and transport service in London - Venture Beat
Bridj Is Dead, But Microtransit Isn't - CityLab
Amtrak’s Plan for Penn Station Repairs Calls for 44 Days of Closed Tracks - NY Times
Cuomo Has the Opportunity to Fix Penn Station, but Will He? - NY Times
Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals - NY Times
AVs
Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles - Bloomberg Philanthropies
The DSRC/V2V/Connected Car Emperor has no clothes - Brad Templeton
Walt Disney World plans to deploy driverless shuttles in Florida - LA Times
Flying taxis or futuristic tunnels won't save us from the misery of traffic - The Verge
Germany adopts self-driving vehicles law - Reuters
Taxis
Waymo's Case Against Uber Sent by Judge to U.S. Prosecutors - Bloomberg
Uber Fired Lawyers Amid Debate Over Data Retention Policy - The Information (Paywall)
Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars - NY Times
EVs
Bike
Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain - Atlas Obscura
Roads
The Latest from the Louisville Traffic Experiment - Joe Cortwright
Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License - NY Times
Australian start-up Clearways wins global recognition for road-user tax plan - AFR
Why Marathons Are More Dangerous for Nearby Residents Than Runners - NY Times
Aviation
Alitalia Files for Bankruptcy, but Italy Balks at a Third Bailout - NY Times
A Flier's Idea for Peace in the Middle Seat - Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg
Land Use
Telephony
Finance
Research
By Us
Ermagun, Alireza, Snigdhansu Chatterjee, and David Levinson (2017) Using Temporal Detrending to Observe the Spatial Correlation of Traffic [doi]
By Others
Ralph, Kelcie, and Alexa Delbosc (2017) I’m multimodal, aren’t you? How ego-centric anchoring biases experts’ perceptions of travel patterns [doi] [See also the obscure paper: Hillman, James. Psychological fantasies in transportation problems. the Center for Civic Leadership, the University of Dallas, 1979.]
Andersson, Freij, Eliasson (2017) Validation of aggregate reference forecasts for passenger transport (Sweden)