The Transportist: May 2018

Welcome to the May 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 and Metropolitan Transport and Land Use in recent months. Copies are still available.

Transportist Posts

• Cage the Automobile

• USA vs. AUS

• They’re Closing Inspiration Point (Happy Days on Freeway building)

  • see also: Aunt Bee the Crusader - In memory of Andy Griffith

• Moving the capital of New South Wales to the west

• Rewinding the clock of techology

Transport News

AVs

• Say goodbye to the Ford sedan - WaPo

• Velodyne invented modern lidar—it’s about to face real competition - Ars Technica

• Why selling full self-driving before it’s ready could backfire for Tesla - Ars Technica

• Here’s the real nightmare scenario for self-driving cars: The ad-supported business model that ruined the internet could come for transportation next. Vox

• Autonomous Cars: The Level 5 Fallacy – Monday Note by Jean-Louis Gassée

• The way we regulate self-driving cars is broken—here’s how to fix it - Ars Technica

• NHTSA/SAE's "levels" of robocars may be contributing to highway deaths​ - Brad Templeton

• How does a robocar see a pedestrian and how might Uber have gone wrong?​ - Brad Templeton

• Uber settles quickly - Brad Templeton

SVs/Taxis/Car Sharing

• DiDi and 31 auto industry partners launch the DiDi Auto Alliance --

• Coming soon to the Uber app: bikes, rental cars, and public transportation - The Verge

• Michael Cohen and the absolutely amazing history of the once-coveted New York City taxi medallion - CNN

  • Trump's 'Pit Bull', With Biz Ties To Ukrainian Emigres, Is Back In Spotlight - Talking Points Memo

• JUMP Bikes weighing Uber $100M+ acquisition, investment offers - TechCrunch

• Uber is shutting down its on-demand delivery service, UberRush​ - The Verge

EVs

• Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades - The Conversation

HPVs/Bikes/Pedestrians

• We Must Not Separate the Spike in Vehicular Terrorism with Urban Planning That Neglects Pedestrian - The Stranger

HDVs and Roads

• Street Grids May Make Cities Hotter. Citylab

• Wisconsin Shifts $90M in Road Funding to Foxconn - Governing.com

• A closer look at business cases raises questions about 'priority' national infrastructure projects - Crystal Legacy in The Conversation

• Car Makers Step Back From Cars: American auto makers are embarking on a historic shift away from passenger cars, as more-profitable sport-utility vehicles and ... - WSJ

Aviation/Space

• Melbourne Airport is going to be as busy as Heathrow, so why the argument about one train line? - The Conversation

• Delta pushes for anonymity in second airport opposition - AJC

• The World's Busiest Airports - Bloomberg

• MapLab: Airports In Abstraction - Laura Bliss

• FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network - TechCrunch

Transit

• Minneapolis Figured Out the Formula for Increasing Bus Ridership On the A Line - streetsblog

• Minister requests investigation into train passing next to Sydney fire - SMH

• Sydney once had the biggest tram system in the southern hemisphere​ - ABC

• Sydney, Freeways and the Tramway Network - Liam Hogan in meanjin.com.au

• 'This has been a cock-up': Sydney light rail contractor sues NSW Government - ABC

• Chinese bike-sharing pioneer Mobike sold to ambitious Meituan Dianping for $2.7B - TechCrunch

• A stoush has erupted between several Melbourne bus companies and the Andrews Government, over the state's effort to buy up the operators. theage.com.au

• Thought bubble or big vision? Berejiklian's plans for Sydney's future - SMH

Ferries/Ports/Maritime

• We will all pay for NSW ports scandal - Luke Foley (state opposition leader) in SMH

Intercity Rail

• China's Billions Are Set to Revive Pakistan's Railways The rail network had become a byword for corruption, delays and filth. bloomberg.com

​Land Use

• 'Bulldozers in every street': NSW govt facing suburban revolt over new housing code - SMH

• Infrastructure debate must recognise boom in temporary population Soaring growth in international tourists, students will add to living pressures in coming decade. SMH

• State government rejects plans for Google HQ in Sydney - SMH

• The radical plan to split Sydney into three - The Guardian

Science

• There's a postal network running through your veins. Can it heal you? SMH

• In Sydney, Australia they're paving roads with printer toner - CNBC

Economics

• Venture Studios: can startup creation be systematized? - Anand Babu

Justice/Equity

• Five years ago transport authorities drew up a list of 100 stations that most needed lifts. Just five have since had lifts installed. SMH

• The Injustice and Sociopolitics of Transit Decline, 1921-1972 - Yingling Fan

Fantasy

• Virgin Hyperloop One board member accused of embezzlement - Las Vegas Review Journal

• The Twin Cities transit revolution that wasn’t Company pitching autonomous ‘pods’ goes out of business - finance-commerce.com

Retail and Logistics

• Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery services for campuses - venturebeat

• Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car - The Verge

Research & Data

• People in Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Don't Spend Less on Transportation - Laura Bliss, Citylab based on work by Mike Smart and Nick Klein exploiting Accessibility Observatory data.

• A thriving mobility market needs open data – Coord

• Introducing Replica, a next-generation urban planning tool - Coord

• To Predict with Confidence, Plan for Freedom - Jarrett Walker

• Too wet? Too cold? Too hot? This is how weather affects the trips we make​ - Corcoran et al. The Conversation

• Sarkar, S. (2018) Urban scaling and the geographic concentration of inequalities by city size. Environment and Planning B.

Books

• Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek. Routledge.

• Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen.

• Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (2016) by David Levinson. Network Design Lab

• The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape. By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.

• The Transportation Experience: Second Edition Garrison, William and Levinson, David (2014)

Previous Issues

• The Transportist: October 2016

• The Transportist: November 2016

• The Transportist: December 2016

• The Transportist: January 2017

• The Transportist: February 2017

• The Transportist: March 2017

• The Transportist: April 2017

• The Transportist: May 2017

• The Transportist: June 2017

• The Transportist: July 2017

• The Transportist: August 2017

• The Transportist: September 2017

• The Transportist: October 2017

• The Transportist: November 2017

• The Transportist: December 2017

• The Transportist: January 2018

• The Transportist: February 2018

• The Transportist: March 2018

• The Transportist: April 2018