ICYMI: The Journal of #Transport and #LandUse published 6 new #OpenAccess
papers last month, and you can read them all for free!
1. “On the path to develop a #micromobility journey planner for #Madrid: A tool to estimate, visualize, and analyze #cycling and other shared mobility services’ flow”
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2451
2. “Sydney's residential relocation landscape: Machine learning and feature selection methods unpack the whys and whens”
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2440
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New #research in JTLU: “Integrated impact of urban mixed land use on TOD ridership: A multi-radius comparative analysis” by Xinyue GU and Siyan Lin of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chengfang Wang of South China University of Technology.
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2462
Hey friends! I'm looking for lightweight, light-duty #ebikes for a pair of semi-nomadic septuagenarians with dodgy knees.
Mainly for recreation. Affordability (theft potential is high), ease of use (old people), and batteries that won't go boom (obviously) are the main needs.
Any suggestions out there?
Thank you!!!
For those who really want to explain urban heat to me, save yourself the trouble.
Urban heat is a thing because cities are covered in concrete, and concrete traps and then radiates heat.
Cities are covered in concrete because of cars.
IT'S THE CARS. Cars are the reason cities are hot, noisy, stinky, dirty, and expensive.
Hey #NorthCarolina friends. Please use this tool to let #NCDOT understand what kinds of #transportation investments matter to you!!!
#climatechange #mobility #biketooter #roadsafety #walking #safestreets
I just got back from a grocery run, and holy crap. The difference in temperature between a greenway in the woods and a sidewalk next to a multilane road is mindboggling. The greenway was almost pleasant. The road felt more like the surface of the sun.
It's almost* as if continuing to coddle drivers by building out more and more roads is actually contributing to the global heat wave we're living in right now. [*sarcasm]
A reminder that #ShowYourStripes day is coming up on Friday, 21 June — every year on the summer solstice!
Get your personal U.S. city stripes at
➡️ https://climatecentral.org/graphic/2024-warming-stripes?graphicSet=City+Warming+Stripes+through+2023
And get your international warming stripes at
➡️ https://showyourstripes.info
New in JTLU: “Effects of the built environment on travel distance in bus-oriented, medium-sized cities in China”
by Xiaowei Li and Lanxin Shi, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT) Architecture & Technology; Junqing Tang, Jiaying Li & Pengjun Zhao, Peking University; Qian Liu & Jun Chen, XAUAT; and Changxi Ma, Lanzhou Jiaotong University.
mentions gun violence
9 years ago one of my dearest friends was traveling from New Zealand to Charleston, SC for a conference. She was nervous about the trip, fearing both hurricanes and gun violence, but I assured her everything would be fine.
The day she arrived, Charleston received 11 inches of rain. 2 days later, a mass shooter killed 9 people in a church 2 blocks from her hotel.
I can't help but think how tragically commonplace this seems today.
Update: Team Buzzkill has been told to "think of the children and how they never get to have fun anymore."
HELLO I KNOW WHY BEING A KID SUCKS THESE DAYS. It's because all the adults are literally trying to kill them. One way or another.
watching a debate unfold over whether a school-sanctioned water balloon inside a moving school bus is a fun way celebrate the end of school or maybe a sign that we as a society have lost all sight of the fact that driving a multi-ton metal box is difficult and errors in so doing impose enormous external costs even without the risk of getting beaned in the head by a 5th grader with a water balloon
Transportation resilience expert. Studying, teaching, learning, tooting about 🚶♀️🚲 🚌 & 🛣️, with occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, & gardening. Searchable on tootfinder. Opinions my own.
Not anti-car, just anti-carbrain. A person, not a data point.