Transportist: December 2024
It’s like the 1850s and 1930s got together and had a child.
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New Zealand Transport Knowledge Conference
I will be giving a Keynote at the New Zealand Transport Knowledge Conference on December 11, 2024 9:00 am at Victoria University Wellington.
Access for Evaluation and Using Land Value Appreciation to Fund Investment
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In the event, this Industrial Action did not occur this time, the state government seemed to cave on the 24 hour-demand, (other interpretations of events welcome) but they have occurred before, as documented here: Clunas and Black (1985), which mostly looks at the traffic effects, since traffic counting stations were easy to come-by at the time.
Clunas and Black (1985) Transport Disruptions Caused by Industrial Disputes: Commuter Travel in the Sydney Metropolitan Region During the Rail Strikes.
Resolution of the state-wide rail strike on January 28, 1985, represented the end of the ninth industrial dispute since January 1980 that disrupted rail services in the Sydney metropolitan region. This paper attempts to describe the responses of both commuters and the traffic authorities in coping with the withdrawal of rail services. It also analyses the changes in road traffic conditions during rail strikes by studying the situation before, during, and after the nineteen-day strike of June-July 1983. The traffic counts used in this statistical analysis were collected at ten traffic signal sites in the metropolitan region that formed part of the computerised Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS).
Research
Links
Depths
Deals
My beloved Ontario Science Centre, like the Powerhouse in Sydney, has been murdered.
Matt Sullivan at the SMH writes (Nov 4, 2024): The winners and losers from Sydney’s most annoying train surcharge
Sydney University transport professor David Levinson said the city’s airport train fares were among the highest in the world and represented a failure of public policy.
“It is bad public policy because it discourages people from taking public transport to the airport. For groups of two or more it’s cheaper to take a taxi or Uber,” he said.
Adult train passengers are charged $17.34 – and children and concession-card holders $15.50 – when they pass through station gates at the domestic and international terminals.
Death: Your regular reminder that cars are weapons.
The most dangerous roads in America have one thing in common.
Waymo compiles largest ever dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries.
In Warsaw, Falling Road Deaths Signal a Traffic Safety Turnaround (you see, I left you with some hope)
Deadlines
Democracy
Discharges
Driving
Uber being Ubered by a Startup: Empower, which doesn’t have commercial insurance for its drivers. ““Empower does not provide transportation anymore than OpenTable provides lunch or Expedia provides flights,” the company wrote.”