Transportist: September 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.

Transportist (the blog)

• Foreground: New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned:

• The State of Transport Education in Australia

WalkSydney

• Submission: Redfern Station Southern Concourse

• Submission: Connected Liverpool 2050: Draft Local Strategic Planning Statement: A Land Use Vision to 2050

Transport Findings

• Jeff Allen and Steven Farber (2019) Benchmarking Transport Equity in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)

Media

• Interview about Access Across Australia report by Jane Slack-Smith. Facebook

Conferences

• I am presenting at the National Roads and Traffic Expo in Melbourne on September 18 at 15:30 about Designing and Evolving the 30-Minute City.

Papers by Us

• Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring Full Cost Accessibility by Auto. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 12(1) 649-672. [doi]

News

• Transit and Microtransit

  • What is “Microtransit” For?

  • Sydneysiders stop to watch history roll along new-look George Street

  • What would it take to build a tram network the size of Melbourne’s?

  • Random: South-East Sydney Light Rail, Sydney Metro North-West & Other Unrelated Musings

  • Sydney Trains commences Dwell Track trial to ease crowding, reduce delays

  • Do QR Codes work for subways

  • Newstart Opal card? Push to lower fares for those living on $40 a day

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

  • 'Worse than Cahill Expressway': new WestConnex overpass condemned

  • More motorists than forecast on M4

  • Sydney gets ramp meters (50 years after Minneapolis - St. Paul)

  • California Man's Plot to Avoid Tickets With 'NULL' Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in Fines

  • Congestion is not the enemy

  • Restrict Twice-As-Deadly SUVs In U.K. Cities, Urge Transport Data Scientists

  • What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?

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

  • SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online

• Curbs and Footpaths and Crosswalks

  • Walking On Painted Keys: Creative Crosswalks Meet Government Resistance

  • The Cult of the Fantasy Pedestrian

• Land Use

  • Australia's building crisis fix will cost $6.2 billion: report

  • ‘Very risky’: Expert fears over plans to move traffic-choked, overcrowded city [Jakarta to a new site for Indonesia’s capital]

• Retail, Wholesale, Logistics, Supply Chain, Freight

  • How Hong Kong’s shopping malls became a new arena in the fight for democracy

• Intercity Trains

  • Too good to be true? Australia's high-speed rail dream leaves a bitter taste

• Aviation

  • Booming Travel Is Transforming Asian Airports Into Mini-Cities

• Miscellany:

  • The new season of the ABC TV documentary about Australia’s favourite infrastructure agency, the National Building Authority, Utopia is out.

  • Citizen Tram (1960s era film about Melbourne’s Public Transport)

Research by Others

• Marcus Credé, Sylvia G. Roch, Urszula M. Kieszczynka Class Attendance in College: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship of Class Attendance With Grades and Student Characteristics

• Dill, Jennifer: Bicycle research 2019: More than helmets and head injuries

• Peter Spearritt (2014) Why Melbourne Kept Its Trams

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. (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)