In the second half of 2017, I supervised a first year undergraduate student Tingsen Xian on an independent student project to redesign the intersection of Broadway and City Road in Sydney. At one corner of this intersection is Victoria Park (lower left) and the University of Sydney (just off site), at another is the Broadway Shopping […]
Public transit agencies and private firms have decided that a major problem facing cities is the “first mile/last mile” (FMLM) problem. The FMLM problem is drawn originally from telecommunications, then supply chain management (goods movement). For telecommunications FMLM is the final leg (or first leg) to the consumer. With physical infrastructure it is expensive […]
Minnesota 280 was first opened in 1959, an element of a freeway network that was not fully realized. It was designed before Interstate standards became standard. It is an important route, providing access from I-94 west-bound to I-35W northbound, a link that is otherwise missing from the network. Wikipedia writes: Highway 280 was authorized on […]
Cross-posted from streets.mn: First do no harm: Cities and infrastructure as living systems First do no harm: Cities and infrastructure as living systems by David Levinson on March 25, 2013 in Plans Cities, and the infrastructure networks that bind them, are alive.Wikipedia says: Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that […]
Our new Brookings report (available tomorrow) makes the Economix blog of the New York Times: Fix Old Roads, Instead of Constructing New Ones, Report Urges – NYTimes.com February 24, 2011, 3:50 PM Fix It and They Will Come By DAVID LEONHARDT On Friday morning, the Hamilton Project will release a few new proposals for helping […]
The previous version of this post was eaten by WordPress. A reader writes: “The U.S. House [Transportation and Infrastructure Committee] came out with its pre-election transportation policy: The Moving Forward Framework, and access measures made it into what is otherwise a high-level policy document (with no hint about how they plan to pay for their […]
Lots of numbers are thrown around about “need” for road funding. For instance, in Fix It First, (2011) we said a “National Cooperative Highway Research Program [“NCHRP Project 20-24(49): Future financing options to meet highway and transit needs.” Table A1] report finds an annual need of $188.4 billion in 2007 dollars to maintain existing highway infrastructure, of which $109.8 […]
Updated November 10, 2016, 18:34 CST. Laura Bliss over at CityLab writes “On Tuesday Night, Transit Was Victorious — Cities committed to paying for the rail and bus systems they want. But a Republican-led Congress might threaten that.” She then wrote: “What U.S. Transportation Policy Could Look Like Under Trump“. Apparently I was in fine, fine […]
Likely future President Hillary Clinton released her infrastructure plan (PDF version) back in November, but I am just paying attention to it now. This is far more detailed than many Presidential plans and suggests someone who is in the field (though more likely an advocate or lobbyist rather than an academic) drafted it for her. Notably it […]
Published White Papers Levinson, David (2022) Governing for Access. report for Urban Development Institute of Australia – New South Wales. UDIANSW and Levinson, David (2022) South West Sydney Rail Link Extension Report: An Accessibility-Oriented Case for City Shaping Infrastructure Levinson, D. (2015) Modernizing American Transportation Policy. Prepared for Conservative Reform Network. Zador, Paul and D. Levinson […]
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