The Transportist: November 2017
Welcome to the November 2017 issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.
Transportist Posts
Apple doesn’t think people move, Part II: The iTunes / App Store
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use – Planning for Place and Plexus
Sydney
Transport News
Walking
Minnesota Zoo will ask the Legislature to fund an aerial walkway, a trolley system and critical infrastructure improvements at its 40-year-old campus. startribune.com
Transit
Light-rail transit will be limited to all but ticket holders on Super Bowl Sunday - Strib. [security! (obviously, a terrorist would never have a ticket)]
Is train carriage capacity information coming to Sydney? - transportsydney
State walks away from joint study on track-free trams for Parramatta Road - SMH
Three Complaints and Three Ideas for Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Future METRO System - streets.mn
Globe editorial: A little transit miracle grows on King Street - Globe and Mail
Intercity Buses
I tried the $115 service that lets you fall asleep in LA and wake up in San Francisco, and it blew... - Business Insider
Roads/Cars
It’s Not the Non-Profits that Keep Saint Paul Poor, It’s Their Parking Lots - streets.mn
The World's First Solar Road Explains Why We Don't Have Solar Roads... curiosity.com
Traffic and Transit: 1949 vs 2017 - streets.mn
What 108 Years Of Repaving Looks Like Under Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Asphalt - Jalopnik
City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams - The Conversation about TransUrban pilot in Melbourne.
Toll road users to get free car rego [Registration] in Sydney - ABC
New Roadside Scanner Contract Brings Uninsured Drivers Closer to Automatic Tickets - Oklahoma Watch
Tollway lawsuits hit end of the road as Arup settles $2.2b Airport Link claim [exaggerated forecasts misled investors] - AFR
AVs
Waymo's fully self-driving cars are here (YouTube)
Waymo deploys with no human safety driver oversight - Brad Templeton
Driverless cars set for Victorian roads in 2018 - Herald Sun
Carl Icahn’s Making a $5 Billion Bet on the Future of Cars - Bloomberg
A Gameplan for Ceding US Freeways to Driverless Cars Starting with the carpool lanes. Wired - a terrible idea, but interesting in that this is what rich people think and how they get publicity.
Driverless vehicle lanes on I-94 being studied for Foxconn (Wisconsin) - Journal Sentinel
Waymo has a big lead in driverless cars—but here’s how it could lose it - ArsTechnica
Alphabet’s Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit - Bloomberg
CVs
Semi-autonomous vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure tech struggles to draw attention from independent, fully autonomous solutions like Waymo's - NY Times [Good news!]
V2V/V2I mandate may be dropped, the good and the bad - Brad Templeton
EVs / Energy / Environment
HGVs
Coming soon to a highway near you: truck platooning - Truck Platooning
HPVs / Bikes
At $1 per 30 minutes, here's how share bike companies make money - SMH
Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance' - The Guardian
SVs / Taxis
Uber Reaches Deal to Sell Stake to SoftBank - NY Times
Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares - Bloomberg
Lyft Set to Claim Third of U.S. Market in 2017 - Bloomberg
Uber and Lyft Should Pay for the Streets - CityLab
Volvo Cars to supply Uber with up to 24,000 self-driving cars - Reuters
Land Use
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants a Dubai of his own. So he plans to build one - Bloomberg
Back to the Future? – Sydney Region Plan and Transport Strategy (part 1) - StrategicWeek
Equity / Justice
#MobilityOnTheMargins - Twitter/StreetsBlog
Safety
If Cars Are Weapons, Then Safe Streets Are The Best Counterterrorism - FastCompany
Opinion | America Is Now an Outlier on Driving Deaths - NY Times.
Retail / Delivery
How Deliveroo's 'dark kitchens' are catering from car parks - The Guardian
UAVs, Aviation and Space
Uber’s ‘flying cars’ could arrive in LA by 2020 - The Verge
Science
The Scientist [D'Arcy Thompson] Who Cracked Biological Mysteries With Math - Wired
German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access - Science
Culture
Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle
Visualisation
Remove the legend to become one - Eugene Wei
Reconfiguring Sydney Streets: Copenhagen case studies and Sydney adaptations - Sustainable Transport
Research
Access to jobs by transit increases in many U.S. metros - UMN Accessibility Observatory
Accessibility Analysis of Risk Severity - Cui and Levinson