Transportist: November 2024
“The interrupted man adapts himself to the world: the uninterrupted one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the uninterrupted man.” -- Not quite GB Shaw
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Time to challenge the 15-minute city: Seven pitfalls for sustainability, equity, livability, and spatial analysis by Kostas Mouratidis
Negm, Hisham, Harvey Miller, and Ahmed El-Geneidy. 2023. “Exploring the X-Minute City by Travel Purpose in Montréal, Canada.” Findings, June. https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.77506.
Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places
The question has been raised, since we are now 5 years into the publication of the Transport Access Manual: A Guide for Measuring Connection between People and Places by The Committee of the Transport Access Manual. (Download PDF) (Paper) whether we now want a Second Edition, incorporating research and practice since 2020.
To date the first edition has had
6195 Downloads of the full PDF
61 Citations on Google Scholar
which seems reasonably successful. If you have ideas, let me know, there may be a meet-up at TRB.
Peaceful Bayside
You will recall I ran as a number two candidate in the local Bayside Council election for the Peaceful Bayside party (a fourth Party, after Labor, the Liberals, and the Greens). While I am pleased to say I was not elected and can skip 4 years of Council meetings, I am even more pleased to say that the Party doubled its representation on Council from 1 to 2, and our lead council member Heidi Lee Douglas was elected Deputy Mayor and Dr Janin Bredehoeft will serve in Ward 3. While it is not the clean sweep of all 15 seats that we would have liked, it is sufficient to improve governance in our area, and with growth like this, doubling every term, we will have 4 seats next time, 8 seats after that, and 16 of 15 seats in 3 cycles.
Research by Others
Bain R and Sullivan D (2024), The Traffic Impact of Road Pricing: Lessons from the Toll Road Sector, ITS International, September/October 2024 (Supplement), Route One Publishing Ltd, UK. [PM]
Niedzielski, M.A., Goliszek, S. & Górka, A. Signals, tracks, and trams: public transport signal priority impact on job accessibility over time. Sci Rep 14, 23459 (2024).
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