Transportist: November 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

• Multiple Academic Opportunities with the School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney (all areas, all ranks) [Applications will be reviewed starting on November 15 .]

• EPFL: Faculty Position in Emerging Mobility and Technology-Aware Transportation Infrastructure

• Johns Hopkins University: Post-doc and Pre-doc at 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC)

Master of Transport at the University of Sydney

• Planes, trains and automobiles: understanding the global transport sector

• Class start in early 2020, apply now.

Transport Accessibility Manual

• The Committee of the Transport Accessibility Manual will meet at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC in January:

Transport Accessibility Manual Working Group (SAM20-0007 AP050)
Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020  8:00AM  9:45AM (US Eastern Standard Time)

• We will be discussing the first (preliminary) draft of the document, which will be distributed to mailing list members before the meeting. Contact me directly if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Talks

• The Transit Transformation Australia Needs: Launch

  • Join our panel at Sydney University at 4:30-6:30 pm on Wednesday 27th of November for a discussion on the future of public transport infrastructure funding. Please RSVP.

Transportist (the blog)

• “Tragic Capacity”

• On Trackless Trams

• I presented at Transport in the Urban System | Engineers Australia, in Newcastle on the 30 Minute City

• Data show American Commuting is Changing, but Probably Not for the Better | Quartz

• On the State of Science

• 21 Solutions to Road Deaths

WalkSydney

• Save the Trees on Lawson Street [Trees saved]

Transport Findings

• Murtaza Haider (2019) Diminishing Returns to Density and Public Transit

• Jerome R Mayaud and Rohan Nuttall (2019) A Job, Indeed! Accessibility Equity to Advertised Employment in Cascadia

Research

• Sharma, Sabal and Levinson, D. (2019) Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal. Transportation Research part A. 130,  385-397 [doi] [free until Nov 22, 2019]

News & Opinion

• Transit and Microtransit

  • Why Chile’s Massive Protests Started With a Subway Fare Hike

  • Sydney Metro approval clears way for exact locations of train stations [Pyrmont still up in the air, but you know they’ll get one; Leichhardt should too, but less obvious they will]

    • Alex Gooding comments (Strategic Matters)

    • Bambul comments (Transport Sydney)

  • How much would trains [in Melbourne] every ten minutes cost?

  • Loop Trolley Could Fold in November Unless St. Louis County Gives it $700,000

  • M.T.A. Pledges $5 Billion for Subway Elevators. Guess How Many.

  • Learning all the Wrong Lessons from the Great Streetcar Conspiracy

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

  • The hidden traffic impacts of private schooling

  • Victoria Police given shoot to kill [dangerous drivers] powers under new pursuit policy

  • Three charts on: why congestion charging is fairer than you might think

  • 'That time is now': Report calls for Sydney CBD congestion charge

  • Nine days on the road. Average commute time reached a new record last year.

  • Why cars are killing more and more pedestrians.

  • The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires

• Vehicle Automation

  • Tesla’s 3Q Safety Numbers Show Improvement, But Continue Odd Wording

• Electrification, Energy

  • Some good news for a change: Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are set to fall

  • Daimler stops development of internal combustion engines: Complete focus on EVs

  • How a Battery Can Lead a Quiet Revolution: This week’s winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry paved the way for a wireless society.

  • Queensland celebrates 4GW solar milestone, three panels for every person

• Bikes etc.

  • Over-the-top policing of bike helmet laws targets vulnerable riders

  • To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a ‘micro-mobility’ network

• Land Use

  • Network Isochrones for Cleveland Transit options (via Human Transit)

  • In Tarneit on Melbourne's fringe, the Australian dream has become a suburban nightmare

• Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight

  • Amazon Is Firing Its Delivery Firms Following People's Deaths

• Conferences:

  • Upcoming Transport Geography Events

• Podcasts

Research by Others

• People born between 1963 and 1965 are less likely to drive a car to work, are more likely to commute using public transit and are even less likely to own a car than people born just before or after those years.

• Lesley Muir (2018) Shady Acres: Politicians Developers and Sydney’s Public Transport Scandals 1872-1895
  

Australian Word of the month:

• Gunzel (n) A railway or tram enthusiast; particularly (formerly derogatory) one who is overly enthusiastic or foolish. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunzel

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)