Transportist: January 2025

Entering Year 10 of the Long 2016

Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow on Mastodon, or RSS. By popular demand, a BlueSky feed is also available. And apparently you can follow my Mastodon account on Meta’s Threads (@transportist@mastodon.social), though it is a bit complex.

Posts

Recent Research

TRB

I will be at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in January, you can find me at the following. Email if you want to meet up.

• TRBAM-25-04439 Determinants of Speed Camera Location Choice

• TRBAM-25-04374 The racial composition and volume of tickets at red light cameras

• TRBAM-25-04193 Communications-free Distributed Control Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections

• TRBAM-25-03523 How Equity of Electric-Vehicle Access Depends on Battery-Charger Interaction

• TRBAM-25-00755 Game-theoretic Modelling of Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Driving Maneuvers

• TRBAM-25-04735 Autonomous vehicle control on lane-free roads: A level-k game approach

• TRBAM-25-04804 Investigating Platoon Formation and Retention Using Reduced-Scale Mobile Robots with Established Car-Following Models

• TRBAM-25-05757 Determinants of Crowdshippers Participation in Crowdshipping in Mumbai

Media

• I was interviewed by ABC Upper Hunter (Newcastle NSW and environs) AM on December 18th 2024, talking about the Hunter Strategic Integrated Transport Plan and transport planning in general. This is in contrast to the non-strategic, integrated transport plan, the strategic, non-integrated plan, and the non-strategic, non-integrated transport plan. They seem to think the Hunter region will be growing a lot. Everyone thinks their area is growing. I’m less convinced. Unless it grows, public transport won’t work well. So where do you want to spend your money?

Driving into Crowds

• Driver killed by police after driving truck into Killeen Mall (Texas)

• San Francisco Cops fatally shoot man after he drivers into pedestrians

• Car driver drives car into crowd at Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing 4, injuring 205.

• Ten dead after vehicle drives into crowd in New Orleans

• Follow up: Driver Fan Weiqiu sentence to death after car attack (in November, China’s justice system is quick).

Remember: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Links

• Honda and Nissan hooking up, Mitsubishi thinking about a three-way (merger)

• The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles: Robotaxis are a money loser. Why not just sell autonomous vehicles to everybody instead?

• Controversial ride-hailing app Empower is now in Baltimore [Ubering Uber]

• The big changes coming to UK and European travel in 2025 [Remember, it’s an Electronic Travel Authorisation, not a Visa]