Now available: A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions by David M. Levinson and David A. King, in paper and PDF. About the Book Why should you read another book about transport and land use? This book differs in that we won’t focus on empirical arguments – we present political arguments. We argue […]
There are a number of ways to view the cost of automobile travel. For instance A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions by David M. Levinson and David A. King We can look at the congestion costs imposed [link]. We can allocate infrastructure costs [link]. We can assess full costs to consider […]
Welcome to the February 2018 issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. Thank you to all who purchased Elements of Access. Copies are still available. Transportist Posts A Friendly Guide to Transport Planning | Human Transit [“Access — where can you get to soon? — is, or should be, the […]
Now available: Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. 342 pages, 164 Images (most in color). Published by the Network Design Lab. About the Book Nothing in cities makes sense except in the light of accessibility. Transport cannot be understood without reference to the […]
Every year for four years now, I have done a top posts article: Transportist – Top 21 Posts of 2016 Transportationist – Most Popular Posts of 2015 The Transportationist’s most popular posts of 2014 The Transportationist’s most popular posts of 2013 These are the most popular posts for 2017. Those published in earlier years marked with an *. […]
Now available: Elements of Access: Transport Planning for Engineers, Transport Engineering for Planners. By David M. Levinson, Wes Marshall, Kay Axhausen. 336 pages, 164 color images. Published by the Network Design Lab. About the Book Nothing in cities makes sense except in the light of accessibility. Transport cannot be understood without reference to the location of […]
I propose as an urban design principle: No street should carry more than four lanes of private vehicle traffic in a city. No more than two of those lanes should go in the same direction. Most streets should be three, two, or one lane wide. If a street carries more than three lanes of traffic in one direction, or […]
Welcome to the seventh issue of The Transportist. As always you can follow along at the blog or on Twitter. I am pleased to report I am now in Sydney, as long promised. Contact information is at the bottom of this newsletter. Due to the move, it should have been a bit lighter than usual, oh well. Transportist Jobs […]
Sarah Fecht at Popular Science writes: Elon Musk’s Tunnel Could Make LA’s Traffic Worse, or a Toll Road. I get quoted. The puns are mine. Elon Musk is a man who makes the future happen. He’s building solar panels, and electric cars that can run off of the clean energy they create. He’s helping humanity become an interplanetary species by making […]
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 […]
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