Greg Erhardt @gregerhardt@transportation.social

Last evening’s beverage 😀

Congratulations to Dr. Vedant Goyal on passing his PhD defense! He examined whether ride-hailing affects road safety outcomes. The short answer is: not much. Well done, Dr. Goyal.

Ian Zhang on migration modeling in the USA at #trbam. We’ll done!

Are transit ridership forecasts accurate? We’ll done Jawad Hoque!

Come check out my poster with Alex Mucci at #trbam happening now! Ride-hailing sharing and matching in Chicago: Travel time, cost and choice models.

There might be some server settings or add-ons that matter here too. For example, when I view @tgent_fens, it appears to implement something called remote follow, which makes it easier to follow profiles on their server.

Clicking the follow button brings up this screen. Here you have to copy and paste the URL to search from your home server, and then follow. This is do-able, but kind of a pain.

If you click through to view the profile on its home server, it looks different. I think this is what happens when @jroper right clicks. The good news is that you can see more followers. However…

If I view a profile (@lisas) from my own server, following is easy-peasy. Note the web address below. However, it does not display follows from other servers, making it harder to browse for other people to follow.

Come hear our TRB Webinar Today (from TRB's bird site post):

Public transit ridership has been declining since before COVID-19. Get analysis of trends, contributing factors, and provide actionable steps to combat ridership decline in post-pandemic travel from @brendonhemily, @transitmom & me

http://ow.ly/hcql50LYXMI

So far, the clunkiness of following a user on a different server is the most annoying thing about Mastodon. Does anyone have an easier way?

The wise Nick Stamatiadis looking scholarly before introducing me for a talk at National Technical University of Athens. Also, giving a talk in and old school railroad lab is awesome! Great hosts and students too!