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Transportist: November 2018

David Levinson
Oct 31, 2018
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Welcome to the November 2018 issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter

Jobs

  • Multiple academic opportunities at multiple levels -- School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney (Closing date: 2 December 2018 - Sydney Time)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transport (Closing date: 11 November 2018 - Sydney time )

Posts

  • On Academic Compliance Bullsh*t

  • On the merits of copying

  • On Frederick Law Olmsted

  • An argument in favour of streetcars

  • Green Pace – A Watch App to Save Time.

  • Migrations: Where are they now

  • Deconstructing Busytown (2006)

Books

  • Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest by Royce Hanson

News

Macromobility:

Transit

  • This is definitely not how to fare evade - Honi Soit

  • How Can Transit Agencies Get Bus Stops Right? - Streetsblog

Automated, Autonomous, Driverless, and Self-Driving Vehicles, and Semi-Autonomous Systems

  • Why People Keep Rear-Ending Self-Driving Cars - wired.com

  • Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? - The New Yorker

  • Historic Milestone: Waymo Has Launched World’s First Robotaxi Service - The Last Driver License Holder

  • Waymo’s self-driving cars hit 10 million miles - TechCrunch

  • GM and Honda will team up to build an autonomous car - Quartz

  • Waymo Pickup Zones Popping Up Around Chandler​ - The Last Driver License Holder

  • Fully driverless Waymo taxis are due out this year, alarming critics​ - Ars Technica

Electric Vehicles [and Renewable Energy]

  • NSW offers free rooftop solar for low-income households – in place of energy rebate - onestepoffthegrid.com.au

  • Second wave of big batteries about to join Australia’s main grid - reneweconomy.com.au

  • US Electric Vehicle Market Share Crosses 3% For The First Time - Reddit (also: Plug-in Sales Scorecard) - Inside EVs [All due to Tesla]

Human-Driven Vehicles, Signs, Signals, Sensors, and Markings, and Roads

  • Automatic pothole reporting - environmentalengineering.org.uk

  • Warnings to motorists of speed cameras 'limits deterrence factor' - smh

  • Expensive new infrastructure is not the only fix for population growth - The Age

Mesomobility:

Shared Vehicles/Ride-sharing/Ride-hailing/Taxis/Car Sharing

  • Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B - CNBC

  • Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks - WSJ

  • Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides - The Verge

  • Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia - and how that's changing - The Conversation

Micromobility:

Human-Powered Vehicles/Bikes/Pedestrians/Scooters/eBikes/Last-Mile/First-Mile/etc

  • Half of all serious injuries on the road not recorded - SMH

  • 'Grotesque attack': Cyclist sideswiped, thrown from bike in road rage incident - The Age

  • Hello TransTech reportedly in negotiations to acquire ofo - Technode

  • Bicyclists May Use Full Lane​ - Carlton Reid

  • Cars sets to be banned from half of roads in London's Square Mile - Evening Standard

  • Busy cycling routes bumped off multimillion dollar cycling fund - theage.com.au

​Land Use/Architecture

  • Sydney Time Lapse – 30 Years of Growth and Development – 1986–2016 - Voom Maps

  • Walter Burley Griffin’s forgotten plan for USyd - Honi Soit

  • Steelmanning the Nimbys - Scott Alexander

Kerbs and Sidewalks

  • Announcing Coord’s Series A – Coord

  • Coord, a Sidewalk Labs spin-out, raises $5 million to help mobility services better integrate into cities​ - TechCrunch

  • Uber Writes an Equation to Help Cities Measure—and Manage—the Curb - Wired

  • Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners - The Guardian

  • The Curb is Everything - streets.mn

  • Surveyor: Using AR technology to unleash the curb - Coord

Retail, Freight, Waste, and Logistics

  • You’ve got mail: Canada Post to handle weed deliveries in Ontario | The Star

Technology History

  • Bradfield, 75 years on – part 5: using Bradfield’s abandoned tunnels – trains, trams or tourism? - The Strategic Week

Travel Behaviour

  • How did the journey to work change in Sydney between 2011 and 2016? chartingtransport.com

  • ​Congestion drives Sydney students to boarding school - SMH

Intercity Trains

  • Families of 2 victims killed by Brightline trains file lawsuit against company - Local10

Aviation and Space

  • 6.7 times the force of gravity: ISS crew survive Soyuz rocket failure A Soyuz spacecraft headed for the International Space Station has been forced to make an emergency landing. - smh

  • How a colossal elevator could revolutionize space travel -euronews

​Maritime

  • Sail Norway’s fjords in good conscience – on the zero-emission future - EnergyTransition

Professoring

  • Perhaps it is time to replace provosts with algorithms And all their vice-provosts, too. lisaschweitzer.com

Fantasy

  • The technology does not exist. The viability of the market is questionable. Obviously it's the regulators' fault. (Flying Cars) - West Coast Stat Views

  • A few points to keep in mind when reading any upcoming story about the Hyperloop (first off, it's not a Hyperloop)

  • Ground transport at 760 mph: New hyperloop passenger pod unveiled​ - CNBC

Research & Data

Papers by Us

  • Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2018) Full cost accessibility. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 11(1) pp. 661-679 [doi]

  • Parthasarathi, Pavithra, and David Levinson (2018) Network structure and the journey to work: An intra-metropolitan analysis. Transportation Research part A. Volume 118, December 2018, Pages 292-304 [doi] [free until Nov. 9, 2018]

  • Sarkar, Somwrita, Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2018) Measuring polycentricity via network flows, spatial interaction, and percolation.

  • Sharma, Sabal and Levinson, D. (2018) Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal.

by Others

  • Melander, Eric (2018) Mobility and Mobilisation: Railways and the Spread of Social Movements

  • Cereal killers: puffed rice yields insight into geophysical collapses What do breakfast and ice sheet destruction have in common? Lots, it turns out. cosmosmagazine.com

  • Alejandro Henao and Wesley E. Marshall (2018) The impact of ride-hailing on vehicle miles traveled. Transportation

  • Quantifying Transit Reliability using Accessibility Indicators - Conveyal

  • National U of M study of access to jobs by auto in ranks Twin Cities #7 - UMN

Journals

  • Elsevier should rename Accident journals to Crash journals (or something else)

Researchers

  • David Hensher: transport economist imovecrc.com

Other People's Newsletters

Read the Transportist, but don't just read the Transportist, also read:

  • Access Insight (Access Australia)

Books

  • Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus (2018) by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.

  • Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. (2018) By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen.

  • Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (2016) by David Levinson.

  • The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape. (2017) By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.

  • The Transportation Experience: Second Edition Garrison, William and Levinson, David (2014)

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