Finally printed, (after more than a year in “online first” purgatory presumably accumulating citations so the journal can juice it’s impact factor) now available for FREE Viewing, but not downloading, thanks to the new initiative below. While not perfect, this seems a reasonable step on the path towards full open-access. Zhu, Shanjiang, David Levinson, and […]
August 1 marks the tenth anniversary of the tragic and shocking collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis. Around the fifth anniversary, I did an 8-part blog series on the subject, which is worth re-upping: Part 1 – Introduction, Part 2 – Structure, Part 3 – Communication, Part 4 – Politics, Part 5 […]
Recently published: Zhu, Shanjiang, David Levinson, and Henry Liu (2016) Measuring Winners and Losers from the new I-35W Mississippi River Bridge. Transportation. (online first) [doi] Abstract The opening of the replacement for the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on September 18th, 2008 provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the impacts generated by this additional link on network performance. Using […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 8: Policy Implications The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 8: Policy Implications by David Levinson on August 1, 2012 in Bridges Unlike bridges, transportation networks are seldom “fracture critical”. While the Interstate Highway System did what it could […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 7: Replacement The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 7: Replacement by David Levinson on July 31, 2012 in Bridges The replacement bridge cost $251 million, funded almost entirely by federal government. We can debate whether the federal […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 6: Traffic The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 6: Traffic by David Levinson on July 30, 2012 in Bridges Travel behavior changes after network disruption as well as after the replacement of disrupted links are not well-understood. The first […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 5: Economics The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 5: Economics by David Levinson on July 29, 2012 in Bridges At the request of Mn/DOT, shortly after the collapse, Feng Xie and I estimated the Twin Cities 7-county region daily […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 4: Politics The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 4: Politics by David Levinson on July 28, 2012 in Bridges Some will say the Bridge collapse was not about money. Throwing money at the Bridge would not have kept […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 3: Communication The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 3: Communication by David Levinson on July 27, 2012 in Bridges The I-35W Bridge collapse occurred before the advent of Twitter, when there were only 50 million users of Facebook (as […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 2: Structure : The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge – Part 2: Structure by David Levinson on July 26, 2012 in Bridges Bridges are designed to overcome gravity. They take travelers over a trench, river, or chasm of some kind […]
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