Blog Profile / The Transportationist
| URL : | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/levin031/transportationist/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Industries / Transportation | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1776 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Crossroads | A Minnesota transportation research blog
The University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies and MnDOT have a Blog! Crossroads | A Minnesota transportation research blog "Crossroads is a collaborative effort between MnDOT Research Services and the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies. This...
Mostly Empty Syndrome
If you have been following this blog, you may have detected a theme, I don't like the public wasting money on un-needed infrastructure. Of course no-one endorses "wasting" money, we just disagree what is wasteful and what is an investment....
Minneapolis to use Value Capture to help pay for proposed Nicollet Central Streetcar line
The Strib reports: State gives city new tool to fund streetcars : "One provision in the state tax bill could have a significant impact on Mayor R.T. Rybak's dreams of building a streetcar in Minneapolis. The bill allows the city...
Signifying Nothing
My way was blocked by a sign signifying nothing. Same site as last fall, at The Commons hotel on Harvard.- dml...
NLX Promotional Material
Just for the historical record, please find attached a scan of the 1 page / 2 sided brochure that the promoters of the Northern Lights Express distributed at the May 11, 2013 National Train Day event at the Saint...
No Parking and De-Signing Streets
I have a new post @ streets.mn: No Parking and De-Signing Streets : "Why is the default assumption that we give away scarce public right-of-way for the free storage of private vehicles?"...
Why must I travel, why can't I tele-conference
Two times in two days last week I was asked to fly to an east coast city for a half-day meeting. The meeting organizers offered to pay my travel expenses. I asked to save the travel money and tele-conference in...
NLX Slides
I was at a public forum in Hinckley, Minnesota last night (home of the world-famous Grand Casino), giving a talk on the Northern Lights Express (NLX). The crowd was, in the immortal words of Grampa Simpson "Agin' it". My...
Economists get what they want
Over at Price Roads, Lewis Lehe has a great post: Price Roads | economists get what they want: "Economists get what they want Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen says: Voters are getting more or less what they want, which...
The Yard at Downtown East
Just posted at streets.mn The Yard at Downtown East: "In a veritable bacchanalia of developments, we have seen three major inter-related activities in Minneapolis’s Downtown East:" [Washington Avenue, The Yard, and The Stadium]...
Dan Snow's Locomotion
I just finished watching Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways. It doesn't air in the United States (nor is it on US iTunes), so you will need to use your special internet TV show finding powers to get it....
SPUD
My thoughts on the Saint Paul Union Depot at Streets.MN: SPUD : "We entered the dimly authentically-lit Saint Paul Union Depot (SPUD), a large but not magnificent space. A train station with no trains. The restoration is nice, and I...
Access Across America media mentions
We released Access Across America a little over a month ago. The following summarizes some discussion of the report. Price Roads | Accessibility map: "Excellent accessibility ranking by Dr. David Levinson (the Transportationist) and the Nexus Research Group at University...
An Agent-Based Model of Origin Destination Estimation (ABODE)
Recently published: Tilahun, Nebiyou and Levinson, David (2013) An Agent-Based Model of Origin Destination Estimation (ABODE), Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(1), pp 73-88. This paper introduces ABODE, an agent-based model for Origin-Destination (OD) demand estimation, that can...
Traffic on Washington Avenue – Raw data edition | streets.mn
I write about Traffic on Washington Avenue – Raw data edition at streets.mn: "Why does this matter? By being “conservative” and adjusting traffic counts up, they are over-estimating the need for roadway capacity, that is, they are being “liberal” with...
Time Evolution of Twin Cities
Google Earth Engine lets you see the evolution of Landsat photos. We did this for the Twin Cities. Go here: Timelapse of Minneapolis - Saint Paul Andrew notes: I think the most amazing thing is seeing the path of the...
Forcing a round object into a square map
The earth is approximately a sphere, yet we try to force this round object into a square grid through the use of latitude and longitude and Ordinance Surveys. Why? The rationale for use of grids depends on scale. We...
The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters year six
Recently published: Levinson, David (2013) The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters year six, Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(1), pp 1-5. The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters its sixth volume continuing to publish selected peer-reviewed...
Grids are for squares: Three reasons to consider alternatives to rectilinear street networks
Just as we have cut the earth into a grid of latitude and longitude (and knowing that each "block" of 1 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude gets smaller and smaller as we approach the poles), we similarly cut...
The case for (and against) public subsidy for roads | streets.mn
David King and I compose a sequel to our recent post on public transit, arguing: The case for (and against) public subsidy for roads @ streets.mn: "In recent weeks we have thought about public subsidy for transit and university subsidy...