Welcome to the June 2017 issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.
Transport Posts
[posts as in jobs or positions]
- Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Transport at the University of Sydney
- Recruiting students
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Civil), University of Sydney
Transportist Posts
[posts as in blog posts]
Sydney
- Observations of Marrickville, Sydenham, Enmore, and Newtown
- On Very Fast Trains
- Observations of Parramatta
- On Shopping in Sydney
- On Trams in Sydney
- On Real Estate in Sydney
- On Blood Alcohol Content
China
- Review of the Shanghai Maglev
- Observations of Transport and Land Use in Nanjing
- Observations of Wuhan
- The Sorry Urban Interface of the Metropolo Hotel in Shanghai
Media Appearances
- Street wars 2035: can cyclists and driverless cars ever co-exist? – Guardian Cities
- Why Looking at Crash Stats Alone Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story About Pedestrian Safety – Streetsblog
- Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants – Nautilus
Transport News
Television
- The New Season of Utopia [Dreamland] starts Wednesday July 19 on @ABCTV. The best show about urban planning in Australia.
Transit
- Providence’s Downtown Connector: A Streetcar Transformed into Useful Transit – Human Transit
- Happy Birthday, Taktfahrplan! – SBB
- The Breakneck Evolution of Chinese Metro Systems – Arch Daily
- China’s road-straddling bus bites the dust – CNN
Elevators
- The world’s first elevator cable-free elevator zooms horizontally and vertically using maglev tech – Technology Review
Bike
- China’s Mobike plans move into 200 cities – TechCrunch
- NSW cyclists lag the rest of Australia as fewer choose to ride: survey – Sydney Morning Herald
- Will China’s bike boom beat Sydney traffic? – SMH
- Citi Biker dies after hit by bus in ride share’s first fatality – NY Daily News
- ‘Uber for bikes’: Chinese firm eyes global dominion with launch in Manchester – The Guardian
- Bicycles are eating the lunch of China’s dominant car-sharing app – South China Morning Post
- Commute by bike: job accessibility and bicycles – Brendan Murphy at CTS
- Is there safety in numbers for bicycles in Minneapolis? – Brendan Murphy at CTS
Roads
- London mayor considers pay-per-mile road pricing and ban on new parking – Guardian
- Could the average commute nearly double by 2030? Really? – Urbanist
- Electric cars accelerate past 2m mark globally – Guardian
- Jogger takes on tram and wins in race for better traffic flow on [Melbourne’s] Sydney Road – The Age
- Five possible solutions to Twin Cities traffic congestion – Pioneer Press
- Scott Walker ties Wisconsin tolling to hitting up Illinoisans, others at state line Gov. – Journal-Sentinal
- Indy sues Carmel over 96th Street roundabouts Indianapolis Star
- Roman Roads [Subway Style Map] – Sasha Trubetskoy
- Can security bollards be done better? – The Urbanist
Taxis
(The worst month for Uber)
- Uber: Headless company in driverless race – SF Chron
- Uber’s Complicit Board – Monday Note by Jean-Louis Gassée
- Alphabet expands Waze’s carpool service — giving Uber a fiercer rival in its home state California – CNBC
- Uber’s Biggest Problem: Its Business Model – WSJ
- Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down – Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business Review
- Inside Travis Kalanick’s Resignation as Uber’s C.E.O. – NY Times
- Uber’s CEO is taking a leave of absence. That’s a disaster for Uber CNBC
- David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark – NY Times
- The mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has died in a boating accident, and his father is in ‘serious’ condition – Business Insider
- Uber faces a fresh probe from U.S. regulators over its privacy practices – Recode
- Uber Fires Executive Over Handling of Rape Investigation in India – NY Times
- Uber Posts $708 Million Loss as Finance Head Leaves – WSJ
- Uber Burned Millions On UberPool To Win San Francisco – BuzzFeed
- Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute – NY Times
- Uber says carpool service is ‘not perfect’, experiments with new version in Manhattan – Venture Beat
- Uber’s latest economics trick: Willingness to pay – Axios
- Uber launches Uber Freight, its app for long-haul trucking jobs – Verge
Delivery
- Sprig, a food-delivery startup that has raised over $56 million, is shutting down – Business Insider
- Wisconsin is now the third state to allow delivery robots – Recode
AVs
- I checked out Tesla Autopilot — and there’s no way it can drive a car by itself – BusinessInsider
- Self-driving cars will double as security cameras, says Intel CEO Brian Krzanich – CNBC
EVs
- The Real Story Behind Elon Musk’s $2.6 Billion Acquisition Of SolarCity Fast Company
- The wireless charging of electric vehicles overcomes a major hurdle – Stanford
Aviation
- It’s so hot in Phoenix, they can’t fly planes – USA Today
- Dutch king’s double life as an airline pilot – Sky News
Land Use
- New map tracks Toronto home prices by subway station – Blog Toronto
- Torrens, our land-title pioneer, might have approved of privatised registries – The Conversation
- High life: Apartments may be built over Eastern Freeway Potential towers would have direct links to the high-capacity ‘busway’ below. SMH
- Warning on housing as GDP growth slips OECD names house prices as the biggest domestic threat to Australia’s economic growth. SMH
Infrastructure Week
Equity
- Case file in Philando Castile shooting released, dashcam video shows shooting – StarTribune
- Metro Transit’s secret arrest and deportation – Tony Webster
Science
Academia
- France is offering US scientists 4-year grants to move to the country and do research – Business Insider
- And, not or: Quality, quantity in scientific publishing – PLOS
Research
By Us
- Murphy, Levinson, Owen (2017) Evaluating the Safety In Numbers effect for pedestrians at urban intersections
By Others
- Broido and Clauset “Scale-free networks are rare.”
David Levinson, Transportist 