You are probably getting this either because you signed up to my TinyLetter newsletter by hitting Click to Subscribe, or because I signed you up since you and I have exchanged emails or business cards at some point. (Or perhaps someone forwarded it to you, in which case, please DO subscribe if you like).  If you don’t want to get this newsletter, feel free to unsubscribe (see bottom of the message), my feelings won’t be hurt. With regards to format, I am keeping this pretty simple, which is I hope robust to different email apps, makes sharing easier, and so on. I will more or less only report things from the last month (or since the last issue).

1. Transportist News and Posts

• My new book is out: Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport
  • on Kindle Editions and
  • iBookstore (Apple ecosystem users should get this one, as it was designed in ePub3 for iBooks)
• (I think I am moving to) Sydney (still waiting on a Visa)
• I posited: On the need for a Right Wing Love Machine
• Memo to the Next President of the United States on Transportation Policy (where I revisit what I said in 2008, it’s still pretty much all true).
• David King wrote: What Do We Know About the “First Mile/Last Mile” Problem for Transit?
• I wrote: Will freight grow by 45%?
• David King was on Science Friday discussing The Future of the Commute
• I have a Newsletter (self-referential link, as you know this)

2. Recent Research (by my group and others)

• Sustainable funding sources and related cost benefit measurements  (Stanley and Levinson)
• Intra-household Bargaining for School Trip Accompaniment of Children: A Group Decision Approach  (Ermagun and Levinson)
• A Model of the Rise and Fall of Roads (Zhang and Levinson)
• Journal of Transport and Land Use 9(3) was released
• Familiarity expands space and contracts time (Jarafpour and Spiers)
• Inner Workings: Paving with plants
• Population-Level Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution during Active Travel: Planning for Low-Exposure, Health-Promoting Cities (Hankey, Lindsey, Marshall)

3. Book in Progress: Elements of Access

Posts by Wes Marshall on

• Elements of Access: Betweenness
• Elements of Access: Degree

4. General Transport, Land Use, and Design News

• WSTLUR 2017 (Deadline is October 31).
• Uber’s Self-Driving Truck Makes Its First Delivery: 50,000 Beers
• Cheaper, faster, lighter: 3D-printed car parts are now a thing 
• Hail the Maintainers
• A Tube Map Of Roman London
• Apple Said to Develop Car Operating System in BlackBerry Country
• Two-wheel drive: China tech giants bet on ‘Uber for bikes’ in hunt for next unicorn
• Uber’s Ad-Toting Drones Are Heckling Drivers Stuck in Traffic
• Uber Joins Companies Pursuing Electric VTOL Transport (paywall)
• A Kink in the Hyperloop
• Private Toll Road Backed By $430 Million in Federal Funds Goes Bust
• Airport Noise NIMBYism: An Empirical Investigation
• Confirmed: Bob Dylan Did Co-Write Protest Song About Robert Moses With Jane Jacobs
• Modelling for major road projects is at odds with driver behaviour
• Hawaii to Embark on Nation’s Largest Mileage Fee Demonstration Program
• Paris: The Triumph of the Bus Stop

• MiniMetro is now out on mobile devices

6. Contact

• Please update your email address for me. Until I land at my new job, please use dmlevinson@gmail.com. Feel free to email me feedback, tips, links, news, but not SPAM (a fine Minnesota product).

See you next month.

— David