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