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The Transportist: November 2016
Welcome to the second issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.
Transportist Posts (Politics)
Denouement (on the election)
Transportist Posts (Policy, etc.)
Could a Trump Administration Kill the Green Line | Boston Globe
Buckshot (Buck Sexton Show): On the Future of Infrastructure
Transportist Posts (Other)
Recent Research
Developing a Comprehensive US Transit Accessibility Database
Population exposure to ultrafine particles: size-resolved and real-time models for highways. Free til January 6, 2017
Elements of Access
Transport News
How Amsterdam became a bike city (Sustainable Amsterdam)
How Davis became a bike city (Guardian)
Detroit's Pattern of Growth (movie, archive.org)
Some ships have become so big that bridges need to be replaced (h/t Olaf Merk)
As container ships get bigger, the number of carriers gets smaller (h/t Olaf Merk)
1920 was Peak Horse (h/t Benedict Evans)
Book Review of Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman (NY Books, h/t Aaron Renn)
Bus Bunching Explained Visually by Lewis Lehe
Why American Trucks Are So Deadly for Pedestrians and Cyclists (Streetsblog)
Plane events: American Airlines, FedEx.
Forecasts for solar frequently revised up (h/t Guy Kawasaki) (this is to be expected at the birth of a technology, see: Structural Errors in Forecasting )
How we Talk about not paying for Transportation (h/t Julia Silvis)
Cities Must, and Will, Take Care of Themselves (Election Notes) (Human Transit)
Hyperloop One unveils its entire system, announces deal to bring network to Dubai (Electrek) [Some imaginary futuristic bullshit]
Global Gasoline Consumption Has All But Peaked (Bloomberg)
Let the market take care of infrastructure (Marc Scribner - USA Today)
Why Trump and the Republicans are desperate to sign a huge infrastructure bill (NY Mag)
Sydney 2026: The commute (Sydney Morning Herald)
Cheating VW ‘owes London £2.5m in congestion charges’ (Times of London)
BMW, Baidu joint project on self-driving cars breaks down (Reuters)
Key lawmaker: Trump favors privatizing air traffic control (AP)
Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98 (NY Times)
Automakers reach out to Trump on regulation, seek review of fuel efficiency mandates (Autonews)
Metro rail from CBD to Parramatta confirmed - but it's $10b and 10 years away (Sydney Morning Herald)
A future world full of driverless cars… seriously? (Alexa Delbosc)
Public Spending. (OurWorldInData.org Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser)
Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year (Bloomberg)
Quote of the Month
Importance of Good Roads (from Anonymous, c. 1917) ... This appeared in a bunch of newspapers of the era.
ROADS RULE THE WORLD - NOT KINGS NOR CONGRESSES, NOT COURTS NOR CONSTABLES, NOT SHIPS NOR SOLDIERS. THE ROAD IS THE ONLY ROYAL LINE IN A DEMOCRACY, THE ONLY LEGISLATURE THAT NEVER CHANGES, THE ONLY COURT THAT NEVER SLEEPS, THE ONLY ARMY THAT NEVER QUITS, THE FIRST AID TO THE REDEMPTION OF ANY NATION, THE EXODUS FROM STAGNATION IN ANY SOCIETY, THE CALL FROM SAVAGERY IN ANY TRIBE, THE HIGH PRIEST OF PROSPERITY, WITHOUT BEGINNINGS OF DAYS OR END OF LIFE. THE ROAD IS UMPIRE IN EVERY WAR, AND WHEN THE NEW MAP IS MADE, IT SIMPLY PUSHES ON ITS GREAT CAMPAIGN OF HELP, HOPE, BROTHERHOOD, EFFICIENCY, AND PEACE.
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Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (Kindle, iBookstore)
And
The End of Traffic and The Future of Transport