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David Matthew Levinson is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, a professor at the University of Sydney since 2017. He formerly held the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota, from 2006 to 2016. He has authored or co-authored 8 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation. His most widely cited works are on transportation accessibility and on the travel time budget. He has developed models of the co-evolution of transport and land use systems, demonstrating mutual causality empirically. He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research. In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout Prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association, and in 2004, the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award. His travel behaviour research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. .. more

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The federal government should be dissolved into almost nothing. Departments of Peace, Justice, Treasury, maybe nothing else. Everything else should be an independent institution/corporation/foundation with independent funding not subject to short term vagaries.
UK looking to implement VKT charge for EVs. Road pricing one EV at a time is coming, as long foretold.
I don’t think think “estimated road use” is right approach - at the least drivers should have the *option* of getting a black box fitted that just tracks their EVs usage, but come on, Mel, impersonate a serious politician!
Reeves poised to unveil Budget plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges
Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty
www.ft.com

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I don’t think think “estimated road use” is right approach - at the least drivers should have the *option* of getting a black box fitted that just tracks their EVs usage, but come on, Mel, impersonate a serious politician!
Reeves poised to unveil Budget plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges
Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty
www.ft.com

Your regular reminder that cars are weapons: Driver rams into pedestrians in western France, five injured - www.reuters.com/world/two-pe...
www.reuters.com

Barack Obama would have been eligible too.

Surely someone should name an NHL team the Aliens.

Transportist: November 2025

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Transportist: November 2025
Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow me on Mastodon, BlueSky, or RSS. Posts Research Your Regular Reminder That Cars are Weapons: Manchester synagogue attack suspect named by police after two people killed and three injured – as it happened…
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If true we could just turn hotels into apartments.

When the whole point of Metro was redundancy, they somehow close both it and Trains

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What a shocker of a trackwork weekend, no trains thru the city except T4. How's that for planning!

City Circle closed. T2,T3 end at Strathfield. T8 ends at Sydenham or Central (map's wrong!)
T1,T9 closed Central-Wynyard.
Metro Closed.

Plus the new bridge at Sydenham is closed for some reason!

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"Last year, the government shut off the tolls permanently. The South African National Roads Agency reported there was $1.67 billion in unpaid e-toll debt that it has written off." www.wsj.com/world/johann...
Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like When a City Gives Up.
Tourists are dumbfounded by the many signs of apathy in the South African city.
www.wsj.com

My son just walks in as the game ends. Perfect timing.

This game is going on so long I just got home from work in Sydney Australia and it’s still on.
Watch this and listen carefully.

Singapore PM on the change in the global order given the US is no longer the insurer of stability - a sentiment that will go beyond the current administration. But nobody else has stepped in building a foundation of multipolarity amid turbulence.

Maybe a few transit companies tracked this. I doubt they would be comparable between companies

Alternatively you could look at NPTS over time for the average duration and distance of transit commutes, but it would be person- weighted, and the times would be self-reported.

More recently one could construct it with GTFS or more accurately with RT-GTFS, but before that it would be a pain to do it accurately. APTA and the National Transit Database might have some information on which inferences could be made, but i wouldn’t trust it straight up 1/@lewislehe.bsky.social