Welcome to the November 2018 issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter
Jobs
- Multiple academic opportunities at multiple levels — School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney (Closing date: 2 December 2018 – Sydney Time)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transport (Closing date: 11 November 2018 – Sydney time )
Posts
- On Academic Compliance Bullsh*t
- On the merits of copying
- On Frederick Law Olmsted
- An argument in favour of streetcars
- Green Pace – A Watch App to Save Time.
- Migrations: Where are they now
- Deconstructing Busytown (2006)
Books
- Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest by Royce Hanson
News
Macromobility:
Transit
- This is definitely not how to fare evade – Honi Soit
- How Can Transit Agencies Get Bus Stops Right? – Streetsblog
Automated, Autonomous, Driverless, and Self-Driving Vehicles, and Semi-Autonomous Systems
- Why People Keep Rear-Ending Self-Driving Cars – wired.com
- Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? – The New Yorker
- Historic Milestone: Waymo Has Launched World’s First Robotaxi Service – The Last Driver License Holder
- Waymo’s self-driving cars hit 10 million miles – TechCrunch
- GM and Honda will team up to build an autonomous car – Quartz
- Waymo Pickup Zones Popping Up Around Chandler – The Last Driver License Holder
- Fully driverless Waymo taxis are due out this year, alarming critics – Ars Technica
Electric Vehicles [and Renewable Energy]
- NSW offers free rooftop solar for low-income households – in place of energy rebate – onestepoffthegrid.com.au
- Second wave of big batteries about to join Australia’s main grid – reneweconomy.com.au
- US Electric Vehicle Market Share Crosses 3% For The First Time – Reddit (also: Plug-in Sales Scorecard) – Inside EVs [All due to Tesla]
Human-Driven Vehicles, Signs, Signals, Sensors, and Markings, and Roads
- Automatic pothole reporting – environmentalengineering.org.uk
- Warnings to motorists of speed cameras ‘limits deterrence factor’ – smh
- Expensive new infrastructure is not the only fix for population growth – The Age
Mesomobility:
Shared Vehicles/Ride-sharing/Ride-hailing/Taxis/Car Sharing
- Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B – CNBC
- Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks – WSJ
- Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides – The Verge
- Why car sharing had a slow start in Australia – and how that’s changing – The Conversation
Micromobility:
Human-Powered Vehicles/Bikes/Pedestrians/Scooters/eBikes/Last-Mile/First-Mile/etc
- Half of all serious injuries on the road not recorded – SMH
- ‘Grotesque attack’: Cyclist sideswiped, thrown from bike in road rage incident – The Age
- Hello TransTech reportedly in negotiations to acquire ofo – Technode
- Bicyclists May Use Full Lane – Carlton Reid
- Cars sets to be banned from half of roads in London’s Square Mile – Evening Standard
- Busy cycling routes bumped off multimillion dollar cycling fund – theage.com.au
Land Use/Architecture
- Sydney Time Lapse – 30 Years of Growth and Development – 1986–2016 – Voom Maps
- Walter Burley Griffin’s forgotten plan for USyd – Honi Soit
- Steelmanning the Nimbys – Scott Alexander
Kerbs and Sidewalks
- Announcing Coord’s Series A – Coord
- Coord, a Sidewalk Labs spin-out, raises $5 million to help mobility services better integrate into cities – TechCrunch
- Uber Writes an Equation to Help Cities Measure—and Manage—the Curb – Wired
- Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners – The Guardian
- The Curb is Everything – streets.mn
- Surveyor: Using AR technology to unleash the curb – Coord
Retail, Freight, Waste, and Logistics
Technology History
- Bradfield, 75 years on – part 5: using Bradfield’s abandoned tunnels – trains, trams or tourism? – The Strategic Week
Travel Behaviour
- How did the journey to work change in Sydney between 2011 and 2016? chartingtransport.com
- Congestion drives Sydney students to boarding school – SMH
Intercity Trains
Aviation and Space
- 6.7 times the force of gravity: ISS crew survive Soyuz rocket failure A Soyuz spacecraft headed for the International Space Station has been forced to make an emergency landing. – smh
- How a colossal elevator could revolutionize space travel -euronews
Maritime
- Sail Norway’s fjords in good conscience – on the zero-emission future – EnergyTransition
Professoring
- Perhaps it is time to replace provosts with algorithms And all their vice-provosts, too. lisaschweitzer.com
Fantasy
- The technology does not exist. The viability of the market is questionable. Obviously it’s the regulators’ fault. (Flying Cars) – West Coast Stat Views
- A few points to keep in mind when reading any upcoming story about the Hyperloop (first off, it’s not a Hyperloop)
- Ground transport at 760 mph: New hyperloop passenger pod unveiled – CNBC
Research & Data
Papers by Us
- Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2018) Full cost accessibility. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 11(1) pp. 661-679 [doi]
- Parthasarathi, Pavithra, and David Levinson (2018) Network structure and the journey to work: An intra-metropolitan analysis. Transportation Research part A. Volume 118, December 2018, Pages 292-304 [doi] [free until Nov. 9, 2018]
- Sarkar, Somwrita, Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2018) Measuring polycentricity via network flows, spatial interaction, and percolation.
- Sharma, Sabal and Levinson, D. (2018) Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal.
by Others
- Melander, Eric (2018) Mobility and Mobilisation: Railways and the Spread of Social Movements
- Cereal killers: puffed rice yields insight into geophysical collapses What do breakfast and ice sheet destruction have in common? Lots, it turns out. cosmosmagazine.com
- Quantifying Transit Reliability using Accessibility Indicators – Conveyal
- National U of M study of access to jobs by auto in ranks Twin Cities #7 – UMN
Journals
- Elsevier should rename Accident journals to Crash journals (or something else)
Researchers
- David Hensher: transport economist imovecrc.com
Other People’s Newsletters
Read the Transportist, but don’t just read the Transportist, also read:
- Access Insight (Access Australia)
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)
David Levinson, Transportist 