The Transportist: October 2019
Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the transportist.org or on Twitter.
Jobs
Master of Transport
Transportist (the blog)
WalkSydney
Transport Findings
Conferences
News & Opinion
Transit and Microtransit
Human-Driven Vehicles, Signs, Signals, Sensors, and Markings, and Roads
Calls for congestion charging to be introduced to de-clog city roads
Does TTI Underestimate Historic Traffic Levels (They are at it again, this response is from 2013, but still basically right)
Drive-thru brothels: why cities are building 'sexual infrastructure'
Lane Ends, Merge Right: 10 (More!) Redesign Ideas for the W4-2 Road Sign
Paris is testing 'noise radar' that will automatically ticket loud cars
Vehicle Automation
Navigating through Pedestrians (video)
Shared Vehicles/Ride-sharing/Ride-hailing/Taxis/Car Sharing/Parking Sharing
Electrification, Energy
Australia is the runaway global leader in building new renewable energy
The new normal: Electric vehicle sales double in Australia, petrol car sales slump
San Francisco makes $2.5 billion offer for PG&E electric system
Saudi Arabia oil output takes major hit after apparent drone attacks claimed by Yemen rebels
Bikes etc.
Curbs and Footpaths and Crosswalks
Land Use
Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight
Intercity Trains
Aviation & Space
Miscellany:
People
Research by Others
Boeing, Geoff (2019) Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy, Applied Network Science
Hale, Chris (2019) The Transit Transformation Australia Needs
Hendrigan, Cole (2019) A Future of Polycentric Cities
Books
A Political Economy of Access. (2019) By David M. Levinson and David A. King (Book 4 in the Access Quartet)
Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. (2018) By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. (Book 3 in the Access Quartet)
Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (2016) by David Levinson. (Book 2 in the Access Quartet)
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape (3rd edition). (2017) By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek. (Book 1 in the Access Quartet)
Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus (2018) by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.
The Transportation Experience: Second Edition Garrison, William and Levinson, David (2014)