Welcome to the November 2017 issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter.

 Transportist Posts

• On ‘Misery Loves Company’
• On Writing Tools
• Interview with Evan Ellis
• Apple doesn’t think people move, Part II: The iTunes / App Store
• Streets Wide Shut – A Principle for Urban Streets
• Metropolitan Transport and Land Use – Planning for Place and Plexus

Sydney

• On Transparency
• On Greater Sydney’s 40-Year Plan
• On the ‘Three City’ Plan of Sydney
• Navigation signs in Sydney
• Should Alexandria get a Metro Station?
• Deleting a road in Green Square
• Decoupling – Two-way Conversions of One-way Pairs: The Case of Botany and Gibbons in Redfern.
• ​On the Replacement Bus (or Hot, Jerky, and Crowded).
• On Halloween in Australia

Transport News

Walking

• The road rule drivers always get wrong – smh
• ​Minnesota Zoo will ask the Legislature to fund an aerial walkway, a trolley system and critical infrastructure improvements at its 40-year-old campus. startribune.com

Transit

• Light-rail transit will be limited to all but ticket holders on Super Bowl Sunday – Strib. [security! (obviously, a terrorist would never have a ticket)]
• Is train carriage capacity information coming to Sydney? – transportsydney
• State walks away from joint study on track-free trams for Parramatta Road – SMH
• Sydney Metro Means: This Engineering Life From a shy civil engineering student to a (short-term) resident of Yass and a long-time scholar of all things Bradfield, meet Rodd Staples. (YouTube)
• Three Complaints and Three Ideas for Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Future METRO System – streets.mn
• Globe editorial: A little transit miracle grows on King Street – Globe and Mail

Intercity Buses

• I tried the $115 service that lets you fall asleep in LA and wake up in San Francisco, and it blew… – Business Insider

Roads/Cars

• It’s Not the Non-Profits that Keep Saint Paul Poor, It’s Their Parking Lots – streets.mn
• The World’s First Solar Road Explains Why We Don’t Have Solar Roads… curiosity.com
• Traffic and Transit: 1949 vs 2017 – streets.mn
• What 108 Years Of Repaving Looks Like Under Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Asphalt – Jalopnik
• City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams – The Conversation about TransUrban pilot in Melbourne.
• Toll road users to get free car rego [Registration] in Sydney – ABC
• New Roadside Scanner Contract Brings Uninsured Drivers Closer to Automatic Tickets – Oklahoma Watch
• Tollway lawsuits hit end of the road as Arup settles $2.2b Airport Link claim [exaggerated forecasts misled investors] – AFR

AVs

• Waymo’s fully self-driving cars are here (YouTube)
• Waymo deploys with no human safety driver oversight – Brad Templeton
• Driverless cars set for Victorian roads in 2018 – Herald Sun
• Carl Icahn’s Making a $5 Billion Bet on the Future of Cars – Bloomberg
• A Gameplan for Ceding US Freeways to Driverless Cars Starting with the carpool lanes. Wired – a terrible idea, but interesting in that this is what rich people think and how they get publicity.
• Driverless vehicle lanes on I-94 being studied for Foxconn (Wisconsin) – Journal Sentinel
• Waymo has a big lead in driverless cars—but here’s how it could lose it – ArsTechnica
• Alphabet’s Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit​ – Bloomberg

CVs

• Semi-autonomous vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure tech struggles to draw attention from independent, fully autonomous solutions like Waymo’s – NY Times [Good news!]
• V2V/V2I mandate may be dropped, the good and the bad – Brad Templeton

EVs / Energy / Environment

• New Numbers Are In and EVs Are Cleaner Than Ever – UCS

HGVs

• Coming soon to a highway near you: truck platooning – Truck Platooning

HPVs / Bikes

• At $1 per 30 minutes, here’s how share bike companies make money – SMH
• Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry’s ‘arrogance’ – The Guardian

SVs / Taxis

• Uber Reaches Deal to Sell Stake to SoftBank – NY Times
• Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares – Bloomberg
• Lyft Set to Claim Third of U.S. Market in 2017 – Bloomberg
• Uber and Lyft Should Pay for the Streets – CityLab
• Volvo Cars to supply Uber with up to 24,000 self-driving cars – Reuters

Land Use

• Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants a Dubai of his own. So he plans to build one – Bloomberg
• Back to the Future? – Sydney Region Plan and Transport Strategy (part 1) – StrategicWeek

Equity / Justice

• Walking While Black Jacksonville’s enforcement of pedestrian violations raises concerns that it’s another example of racial profiling. – ProPublica
• #MobilityOnTheMargins – Twitter/StreetsBlog

Safety

• If Cars Are Weapons, Then Safe Streets Are The Best Counterterrorism – FastCompany
• Opinion | America Is Now an Outlier on Driving Deaths – NY Times.

Retail​ / Delivery

• How Deliveroo’s ‘dark kitchens’ are catering from car parks – The Guardian

UAVs, Aviation and Space

• Uber’s ‘flying cars’ could arrive in LA by 2020 – The Verge

Science

• The Scientist [D’Arcy Thompson] Who Cracked Biological Mysteries With Math – Wired
• German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access – Science

Culture

• Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle

Visualisation

• Remove the legend to become one – Eugene Wei
• Reconfiguring Sydney Streets: Copenhagen case studies and Sydney adaptations – Sustainable Transport

Research

• Access to jobs by transit increases in many U.S. metros – UMN Accessibility Observatory
• Accessibility Analysis of Risk Severity – Cui and Levinson