Welcome to the May 2017 issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. It is early this month since I will be going inside the great-firewall shortly.
Transportist Jobs
- Recruiting Post-doc (Closing date: 11:30 pm 21 May 2017)
- Recruiting students
Transportist Posts
Sydney
- Rail Links and Sydney’s Airports
- Toll Roads – a view after 25 years
- Sydney Train Stations Need Two Exits
- Sydney’s Ferries
- Sydney’s Monorail
California
Atlanta
Media
Evaluation
Transport News
Sydney
- WestConnex: City of Sydney proposes abandoning stage three connection between M4, M5 – ABC
- Sydney Metro – a brief guide to a complex history – Strategic Matters
- Sydney Airport finally turns down chance to build new airport at Badgerys Creek – SMH
- Deluge of complaints put Inner West bus services off road – Telegraph
- Sydney bus privatisation – SMH
- The Sydney suburbs with the best access to jobs, shops and services – SMH
Transit
- Toronto: Defending Transit’s Right to Move – Jarrett Walker at Human Transit
- Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus and transport service in London – Venture Beat
- Bridj Is Dead, But Microtransit Isn’t – CityLab
- Amtrak’s Plan for Penn Station Repairs Calls for 44 Days of Closed Tracks – NY Times
- Cuomo Has the Opportunity to Fix Penn Station, but Will He? – NY Times
- Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals – NY Times
AVs
- Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles – Bloomberg Philanthropies
- The DSRC/V2V/Connected Car Emperor has no clothes – Brad Templeton
- Walt Disney World plans to deploy driverless shuttles in Florida – LA Times
- Flying taxis or futuristic tunnels won’t save us from the misery of traffic – The Verge
- Germany adopts self-driving vehicles law – Reuters
Taxis
- Waymo’s Case Against Uber Sent by Judge to U.S. Prosecutors – Bloomberg
- Uber Fired Lawyers Amid Debate Over Data Retention Policy – The Information (Paywall)
- Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars – NY Times
EVs
Bike
- The case for bicycles’ inevitable triumph over cars – CNN
- Resurrecting the Forgotten Bike Highways of 1930s Britain – Atlas Obscura
Roads
- The Latest from the Louisville Traffic Experiment – Joe Cortwright
- Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License – NY Times
- Australian start-up Clearways wins global recognition for road-user tax plan – AFR
- Why Marathons Are More Dangerous for Nearby Residents Than Runners – NY Times
Aviation
- Alitalia Files for Bankruptcy, but Italy Balks at a Third Bailout – NY Times
- A Flier’s Idea for Peace in the Middle Seat – Virginia Postrel at Bloomberg
Land Use
Telephony
Finance
Research
By Us
- Ermagun, Alireza, Snigdhansu Chatterjee, and David Levinson (2017) Using Temporal Detrending to Observe the Spatial Correlation of Traffic [doi]
By Others
Ralph, Kelcie, and Alexa Delbosc(2017) I’m multimodal, aren’t you? How ego-centric anchoring biases experts’ perceptions of travel patterns [doi] [See also the obscure paper: Hillman, James. Psychological fantasies in transportation problems. the Center for Civic Leadership, the University of Dallas, 1979.]- Andersson, Freij, Eliasson (2017) Validation of aggregate reference forecasts for passenger transport (Sweden)
David Levinson, Transportist 
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