Talks

• I am giving a talk August 09 The Street: Design for People by Foreground, talking about the Footpath of the Future. This is at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Tickets here.

Posts

• Comments on Sydney’s Cycling Strategy and Action Plan 2018-2030
• States announce automated vehicle programs | Government News
• On false positives and false negatives and peer review
• Welcome Emily Moylan to Transport Engineering at the University of Sydney
• A Pedestrian Bill of Rights
  • Antecedents to a Pedestrian Bill of Rights
• What will the footpath of the future look like? [Foreground]
• Additions to the JTLU Editorial Team

Jobs

• Post-doc – Arizona State University

New Books

• Inequality in Transport by David Bannister
• Rethinking America’s Highways: A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure by Robert W. Poole Jr.
• The End of Driving by Bern Grush and John Niles

News

Automated, Autonomous, Driverless, and Self-Driving Vehicles, and Semi-Autonomous Systems 

• Is the Zoox plan for a custom car the path to robotaxi domination? – Brad Templeton
• Uber’s self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars – TechCrunch
• Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day [8 million total] – TechCrunch
• Connected cars can lie, posing a new threat to smart cities – The Conversation
• Robocar “Shark Tank” issues: Cheap rides, vandalism, jobs, dystopia and more – Brad Templeton
• Uber has terminated its self-driving car operators in Pittsburgh – Quartz
• Driverless cars really do have health and safety benefits, if only people knew – The Conversation
• GM Puts Pieces in Place for Robo-Taxis in San Francisco​ – Bloomberg
• A Robot riding a bicycle, for realz.

Shared Vehicles/Ride-sharing/Ride-hailing/Taxis/Car Sharing

• Uber and Lyft Are Overwhelming Urban Streets, and Cities Need to Act Fast – streetsblog
• Uber says it hit 10B completed trips across rides and deliveries on June 10 – TechMeme

Electric Vehicles [and Renewable Energy]

•  Current system of paying for roads will unfairly benefit Tesla drivers – SMH

Human Powered Vehicles/Bikes/Pedestrians/Scooters/eBikes/etc

• A second dockless bike-share company is exiting D.C. [Mobike ] dc.curbed.com
• Chinese bikeshare company Ofo is shutting down in Seattle amid widespread US layoffs – geekwire
• Two Dockless Bikeshare Companies Have Left D.C., Citing Tight Regulations – WAMU
• New Traffic Signals in London Will to Give Pedestrians the Green Light By Default – Streetsblog
• Bike-sharing company Ofo is dramatically scaling back in North America – Quartz
• How did Seattle’s bike-share pilot go? – Curbed
• 50,000 Old Shared Bikes to be Replaced by New Mobikes
• High-visibility clothing ineffective against driver behavior – Medical Xpress
• Dockless bike sharing coming to Canberra as other cities struggle with discarded cycles – ABC
• Two-wheel takeover: bikes outnumber cars for the first time in Copenhagen – The Guardian
• Singapore is giving its senior citizens the power to hold up traffic – Quartz
• Electric scooter rentals debut in Twin Cities – MPR
• Hong Kong bike-sharing start-up Gobee.bike goes bust from losses and high maintenance costs – South China Morning Post
• Bikesharing company ofo cycles out of Australia – ABC
• Curb Cuts – 99% Invisible
• Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike [Motivate] – NY Times

Human Driven Vehicles, Signs, Signals, Sensors, and Markings, and Roads

• Democrats in power always overplay their hand The proposition to repeal the gas tax is a backlash to the Democratic Party’s hubris. [If raising gas taxes is this hard, imagine road pricing. So depressing.] — latimes.com

Transit

• Dublin: A New Bus Network for a More Liberated City – Jarrett Walker
• These Are the American Cities Where Transit Access to Jobs Is Getting Better – Streetsblog
• Study finds transit access to jobs rises, thanks to A-Line [Minneapolis] – StarTribune
• Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? – Alon Levy
• Can Andy Byford Save the Subways? – New Yorker

​Land Use/Architecture

• Evolving Floorplans Evolving Floorplans  joelsimon.net
• Here’s How America Uses Its Land – Bloomberg
• Two Perspectives On The Housing Crisis: Affordable Housing vs Housing Affordability – streets.mn

Justice/Equity

• TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program – bostonglobe.com
• Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras – NY Times
• Judge: Tennessee can’t revoke driver’s licenses from people who can’t pay court costs  – the Tennesseean

Kerbs and Sidewalks

•  Cashing In on the Curb Smart cities are paying more attention to the fixtures that define their streets, looking to improve mobility and maximize the value of these assets. governing.com
•  American Cities Are Squandering Some of Their Most Valuable Real Estate: the Curb – Henry Grabar, Slate

Retail, Freight, Waste, and Logistics

• What I learned from a Taipei alley – [Trash doesn’t touch the ground, garbage trucks come around playing ‘Für Elise’ and people deposit their trash directly.] – Eugene Wei.
•  America’s largest supermarket chain [Kroger] is launching a fully driverless delivery service – The Verge

Technology History

• What’s the Purpose of Mass Transit? – Part 4 – What’s the Underlying Goal of Transportation? – [Nixon’s Governmental Reorg Proposal] – Jeff Davis, Eno
• The Evolution of the Interstate – Geotab
• The Evolution of Victoria’s Railways – Steve Pemberton
• Bradfield, 75 years on – part 1: the Science of Engineering – Alex Gooding, Strategic Matters

Research & Data

by Us

• Zhu, Shanjiang and Levinson, D. (2018) An Agent-based Route Choice Model with Learning and Exchange of Information.  Urban Science. 2(3), 58 [doi] (open access)
• Janson, M. and Levinson, D. (2018) Choice of High Occupancy/Toll Lanes Under Alternative Pricing Strategies. Journal of the Transportation Research Board: Transportation Research Record. [doi]

by Others

• Comparing City Street Orientations – Geoff Boeing
• Visualizing street orientations on an interactive map – Mapbox
• ‘Everything we’ve heard about global urbanization turns out to be wrong’ [Many more people live in cities once definitions are standardized] — This is Place
• Dionysius Lardner, the denigrated sage of early railways. By Andrew Odlyzko

Books

• Metropolitan Transport and Land Use: Planning for Place and Plexus (2018) by David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.
• Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. (2018) By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen.
• Spontaneous Access: Reflexions on Designing Cities and Transport (2016) by David Levinson.
• The End of Traffic and the Future of Access: A Roadmap to the New Transport Landscape. (2017) By David M. Levinson and Kevin J. Krizek.
• The Transportation Experience: Second Edition Garrison, William and Levinson, David (2014)