Top 19 Transportist Posts in 2019

This year ends with a list of the most popular posts on the blog, written this year. Many of the most popular posts have been written in previous years, and are now perennials, but I'd like to go out of this precarious decade focusing on newer content. Obviously posts earlier in the year had a better opportunity to accumulate reads, but most articles live short lives, and get their hits quickly.

A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions by David M. Levinson and David A. King

1. A Political Economy of Access (Many more of you read the post than purchased the book, but really, you should get the book).

   • See also It's the Political Economy, Stupid

2. Gradial or the Unreasonable Network (This is a chapter in my 2020 book, to be released shortly)

3. How to increase transit ridership by 35% with one weird trick. (This was a Conversation article, which is perhaps the most popular thing I have written)

   • Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility. (The academic paper, see it at TRB)

4. The automobile as prison, the city as freedom

5. 21 Solutions to Road Deaths

6. Sydney Metro Opening Day: A Review.

7. On Trackless Trams

8. Transport Newsletters: An Incomplete Lists

9. Elsevier and the quid pro quo (see also Open Access in Transport).

10. GTFS But For

11. Transport Findings launches (see also In Praise of Brief Articles)

12. What's Access Worth (see it at TRB)

13. The Transit Travel Time Machine (see it at TRB)

14. The 12th Annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation With David Levinson: Designing the 30-Minute City

15. Observations of Melbourne

16. Journal of Transport and Land Use Transitions

17. Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first (reposed from The Conversation)

18. How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities. (reposted from The Conversation)

19. 1953 Detroit Metropolitan Area Traffic Study - Data Discovered

Lists from previous years:

• 18 Most Popular Transportist Posts of 2018

• 21 Most Popular Transportist Posts of 2017 Spectacular

• Transportist – Top 21 Posts of 2016

• Transportationist – Most Popular Posts of 2015

• The Transportationist’s most popular posts of 2014

• The Transportationist’s most popular posts of 2013

All Time Most Popular Posts in the WordPress era of the Transportationist/Transportist Blog

1. 21 STRATEGIES TO SOLVE CONGESTION (2016)

2. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE “FIRST MILE/LAST MILE” PROBLEM FOR TRANSIT? (by David King) (2016)

3. ON WHY BIKE LANES MIGHT APPEAR UNDERUTILIZED (2016)

4. ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AUTONOMOUS, AUTOMATED, SELF-DRIVING, AND DRIVERLESS CARS  (2017)

5. WHAT HAPPENED TO TRAFFIC? (2013)

6. HOW MUCH TIME IS SPENT AT TRAFFIC SIGNALS?  (2018)

7. WHY IS THE WALKING MAN WHITE? (2015)

8. SIGNALLING INEQUITY – HOW TRAFFIC SIGNALS DISTRIBUTE TIME TO FAVOUR THE CAR AND DELAY THE PEDESTRIAN. (2018) (Based on a Conversation Article)

9. NOT IN OUR NAME (2016)

10. ROAD RENT – ON THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF LAND USED FOR ROADS (2018)

So none of the 2019 have made it onto the all time list yet, but I think a couple might eventually get there.