- Sep 2023
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www.dericbourg.net www.dericbourg.net
- Jul 2023
- Sep 2022
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bam.kalzumeus.com bam.kalzumeus.com
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Bank branches are not destinations. Like Starbucks and cell phone shops, they rely on capturing your day-to-day custom when you’re out and about. In the U.S., that mostly means being maximally accessible by cars. (In Japan, and other places with different transit behavior, bank branches are among the most likely user for large parcels directly adjacent to hub train stations, with smaller light branches and ATM-only locations being deployed close to far-from-station workplaces.)
Bank branches are not destinations
Banks situate themselves along the paths that people travel...they are not destinations in and of themselves. So placement of branches are guided by modes of transportation: easy car access when cars at the main mode of transport; near transit stops when public transportation is the main mode.
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- May 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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(20) ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @martikagv: New book “Urban Informatics”, #OpenAccess https://t.co/wp45uWU9Mi Edited by @jmichaelbatty @CUHKofficial Michael Goodchild,…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 April 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1384411081456582662
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- Mar 2021
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blog.metrolinx.com blog.metrolinx.com
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metrolinx. (2020, November 19). How COVID has impacted transit – Metrolinx releases ridership map covering all GO Transit rail routes. Metrolinx News. https://blog.metrolinx.com/2020/11/19/how-covid-has-impacted-transit-metrolinx-releases-ridership-map-covering-all-go-transit-rail-routes/
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- Sep 2020
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usa.streetsblog.org usa.streetsblog.org
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make on-street parking expensive (to reflect its real costs) and to make transit cheap or free. The way we price transit, and don’t price private car storage in the public realm, is evidence of “Asphalt Socialism“–subsidies for cars and driving, and high prices and penalties for those who take transit.
Socialism for the oligarchs, the pointy end of capitalism for everyone else.
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the only places where transit really works well in the United States are in the areas where cities charge for parking. When street parking is free, people own cars and drive, depriving transit systems of customers and revenue, and skewing the transit ridership to the dispossessed and powerless.
Though NYC has probably the most comprehensive transit capabilities in the US, and it somehow fails to charge for parking permits. Surprisingly, SF appears to be the "big winner" here, $12/month for a parking permit and $81/month for a Muni pass. (However, in these pandemic times, I wonder how much buying monthly passes has decreased. And for a compact city, so much SF stuff still assumes you have a car.)
Also of note: huge swaths of SF are SFH yet still have (one-car) garages so you don't have to park your (first) car on the street. Compare how many cars per household in SF, in the Bay Area, and contrast with NYC.
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on most streets, in most cities — including, bizarrely New York City — street parking is completely unpriced almost everywhere. In effect, the prices shown for parking in Goodman’s sample overstate what city’s actually charge for parking: it’s mostly zero.
$70 for a monthly transit pass vs. $2.25 for a monthly parking permit. I wonder what the price for a monthly parking permit averages out to among the cities that DO charge.
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- Aug 2020
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www.nber.org www.nber.org
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McLaren, J. (2020). Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths: Seeking Economic Roots with Census data. (Working Paper No. 27407; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27407
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Rahman, Md. M., Thill, J.-C., & Paul, K. C. (2020). COVID-19 Pandemic Severity, Lockdown Regimes, and People’s Mobility: Evidence from 88 Countries [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wtdf2
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- Jun 2020
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- Jan 2020
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www.mckinsey.com www.mckinsey.com
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shared mobility, connectivity services, and feature upgrades, new business models could expand automotive revenue pools by about 30 percent, adding up to $1.5 trillion.
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- Dec 2018
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mic-ro.com mic-ro.com
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9 cities world wide have 24 hours service on some line every night. 14 cities world wide have 24 hours service on some line every weekends. Which lines, which nights, should it be in KL? https://twitter.com/sabre23t/status/1071943579025661955
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- Mar 2017
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Bringing Bridj to Kansas City seemed like a no-brainer to transit officials. For just $1.50, anyone could use an app to summon a ride downtown in van that would follow a route calculated on the fly by an algorithm. No one within the service area was ever more than a 10 minute walk from a stop, and as an added incentive, your first 10 rides were free.
Never heard of it.
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- Oct 2016
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www.mississauga.ca www.mississauga.ca
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Once you pay for 12 full MiWay fares during any one-week (Monday to Sunday) using your PRESTO card, you can then ride free on MiWay for the remainder of that week!
Those loyalty programs are pretty interesting. Wish the same existed for day and monthly passes.
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- Sep 2016
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www.citylab.com www.citylab.com
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Sad but true: Not all officials who make decisions about public transit actually use public transit.
For once, this isn’t a buried lede.
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medium.com medium.com
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(Crazy app uptake + riding data + math wizardry = many surprises in store.)
Like Waze for public transit? Way to merge official Open Data from municipal authorities with the power of crowdsourcing mass transportation.
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- Jan 2016
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I only skimmed this, but I think I got the point. You move more people faster on escalators when none of them are reserved for walking -- simply because not enough people are willing or able to walk. If you have walking lanes, they are under-used, and the standing lanes are over-crowded.
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www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov
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21st century transportation system
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