Announcements

• Roderick Distinguished Lecture (31 August 2017) – University of Sydney campus
• Opening: Chair in Public Transport (ITLS – University of Sydney)

Transportist Posts

• The I-35W Bridge Collapse, Ten Years On
• 9 Barriers to Walking in Sydney

Media Appearances

• Specialists say parking shortfalls for Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai commuters will require wide range of solutions
• The forgotten station | Honi Soit
• Minnesota planners begin to envision driverless future | Star Tribune

Transport News

Transit

• We should do more to privatize bus systems – Marginal Revolution
•  ‘We won’t need train and bus drivers’: Transport Minister’s prediction – SMH
• Sydney commuters get chance to trial on-demand buses – SMH
• Customised bus services set to go on trial in 2018. – Straits Times
•  To Attract Riders, Make Transit ‘Congestion Free’ – CityLab
• New streetcar lines have hindered residents’ access to jobs, report says – NOLA
• Driverless bus trials to start in Sydney this month – SMH

Roads

• A History of Downtown Road Pricing – Lewis Lehe – Medium
• Cuomo Calls Manhattan Traffic Plan an Idea ‘Whose Time Has Come’ – NY Times
• When an 850 per cent profit jump just isn’t enough (Transurban) – SMH
• Sydney motorists deliver super profits for Transurban – again – SMH

• RIP Bertha: Final piece of Seattle’s giant tunneler removed from pit – KOMO
• The Simple Solution to Traffic The way we can make traffic disappear. – YouTube

AVs

• Apple said to be prepping self-driving employee shuttle service – TechCrunch
• Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among its Engineers – WSJ
• Waymo Built a Secret World for Self-Driving Cars – The Atlantic
• Winner-take-all effects in AVs. – Benedict Evans
• The Big Problem With Self-Driving Cars Is People – Spectrum IEEE

CVs

• Hackable flaw in connected cars is ‘unpatchable’, warn researchers – NakedSecurity

EVs / Energy

• Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case – NY Times
• The Model 3 Is Further Proof of Tesla’s Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry – The Drive

HPVs / Bikes

• Cycling fines soar in first year of harsher penalties in NSW – SMH [And use is down, and crash rates are up]

SVs / Taxis

• Uber to end post-trip tracking of riders as part of privacy push – Reuters
• Uber chooses a surprising new leader: the CEO of Expedia – WaPo
• Uber drops plans for new Oakland headquarters – TechMeme
• One-ways, Open Jaws, Closed Loops, and more: A day of Uber journeys in Chicago – Medium
• Lyft’s radical experiment in charging for free parking – Bloomberg
• Uber to add in-app chat feature to help riders, drivers find each other – Strib
• Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars to Drivers  – WSJ

Canals

• Thailand’s Kra canal plan would link Indian, Pacific oceans, benefiting China – SMH

Land Use

• Revealed: the secret $1.6b plan to fund Parramatta light rail – SMH
• Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street – SF Chronicle

Equity / Justice

• Phoenix Man Awaiting Deportation After Failing to Buy a Light-Rail Ticket – Phoenix New Times
• The Lost Dream of a Superhighway to Honor the Confederacy (Jefferson Davis Highway) by Erin Blakemore / The Atlantic
• “Vehicle obstructing” aka “license to kill” bills list and their outcomes so far – Lisa Schweitzer

Safety

• Shark-detecting drones to patrol Australian beaches – Reuters

Fantasy

• A few points to keep in mind when reading any upcoming story about the Hyperloop (first off, it’s not a Hyperloop) – Observational Epidemiology

Aviation

• Qantas plan to fly non-stop to New York and London from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane – Traveller.com.au
• Why we don’t commute with helicopters – BoingBoing

Isochrones

• Leaving town at rush hour? Here’s how far you’re likely to get from America’s largest cities.​ – WaPo
• Why Even the Hyperloop Probably Wouldn’t Change Your Commute Time – NY Times

 Theses and Dissertations

• Kristin Carlson: Accessibility Impacts of Bus Access to Managed Lanes

• Dr. Jessica Schoner: Mutually Reinforcing Relationships Between Bicycling Infrastructure

Research

By Us

• Di et al. (2017) Indifference Bands for Route Switching.
• Zhu et al. (2017) Measuring Winners and Losers from the new I-35W Mississippi River Bridge