Anastasia Soukhov
@soukhova.bsky.social
Transportation, a special kind of land-use 🚌
PhD(c) in Transport Geography at McMaster University.
Connecting: inequalities, climate change, transport, spatial analysis
PhD(c) in Transport Geography at McMaster University.
Connecting: inequalities, climate change, transport, spatial analysis
A preprint ☀️ forming the foundation of my PhD dissertation. It traces how accessibility, the “potential” to spatially interact, relates to spatial interaction modelling. It also outlines how constants from this oh-so-related field can be folded into accessibility to yield interpretable units!
Reuniting spatial interaction and accessibility
🌐blog post: www.urbandemographics.org/post/reuniti...
A new study (preprint) with @soukhova.bsky.social , @higgicd.bsky.social and Antonio Paez 🗺️📏
📑Preprint: osf.io/a9dxb_v1
🌐blog post: www.urbandemographics.org/post/reuniti...
A new study (preprint) with @soukhova.bsky.social , @higgicd.bsky.social and Antonio Paez 🗺️📏
📑Preprint: osf.io/a9dxb_v1
Reuniting spatial interaction and accessibility | Urban Demographics
www.urbandemographics.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A preprint ☀️ forming the foundation of my PhD dissertation. It traces how accessibility, the “potential” to spatially interact, relates to spatial interaction modelling. It also outlines how constants from this oh-so-related field can be folded into accessibility to yield interpretable units!
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LMFAO 😭😭 Its official—Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie has lost her riding.
Imagine losing a Mississauga riding when you've been Mayor the last 10 years, plus all the other Mississauga ridings seem to be going conservative as well. #onpoli
Flop era low key serving...
Imagine losing a Mississauga riding when you've been Mayor the last 10 years, plus all the other Mississauga ridings seem to be going conservative as well. #onpoli
Flop era low key serving...
February 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
LMFAO 😭😭 Its official—Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie has lost her riding.
Imagine losing a Mississauga riding when you've been Mayor the last 10 years, plus all the other Mississauga ridings seem to be going conservative as well. #onpoli
Flop era low key serving...
Imagine losing a Mississauga riding when you've been Mayor the last 10 years, plus all the other Mississauga ridings seem to be going conservative as well. #onpoli
Flop era low key serving...
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this dead horse isn’t going to beat itself
February 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
this dead horse isn’t going to beat itself
Premier Doug Ford booed by crowd at Raptors victory parade
YouTube video by CityNews
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Friends, one of the biggest issues during this election has been Housing. Disabled Ontarians are among those most impacted by Ontario's failure to build accessible housing, ensure full rent control, and we are under direct attack through policing of unhoused disabled folks.
February 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Friends, one of the biggest issues during this election has been Housing. Disabled Ontarians are among those most impacted by Ontario's failure to build accessible housing, ensure full rent control, and we are under direct attack through policing of unhoused disabled folks.
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Imagine if Olivia Chow or a Liberal/NDP premier said this. There would be so much outrage, accusations of communist dictatorships, etc etc.
But we operate in a landscape where it's just "harmless" goofy bumbling Doug Ford.
But we operate in a landscape where it's just "harmless" goofy bumbling Doug Ford.
February 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Imagine if Olivia Chow or a Liberal/NDP premier said this. There would be so much outrage, accusations of communist dictatorships, etc etc.
But we operate in a landscape where it's just "harmless" goofy bumbling Doug Ford.
But we operate in a landscape where it's just "harmless" goofy bumbling Doug Ford.
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One of my neighbours put this up on their lawn. Civic virtue signalling! (extremely complimentary)
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
One of my neighbours put this up on their lawn. Civic virtue signalling! (extremely complimentary)
AND MORE: 250k waiting for surgeries --11k of whom died on waitlists, endless land developer scandals, fantasy highway tunnels, chronic underfunding of higher ed, unadjusted social assistance programs + expanding poverty ... and so it goes...
#Ontario, today #vote like our lives depend on it
#Ontario, today #vote like our lives depend on it
February 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In Canada, we don't have formalized regional land-use and transportation planning structures. It is more ad-hoc, unlike the MOP structure in the US.
Came across a recent working paper that details some transferable lessons from their system to Canada. A School of Cities (UofT) paper. Interesting!
Came across a recent working paper that details some transferable lessons from their system to Canada. A School of Cities (UofT) paper. Interesting!
schoolofcities.utoronto.ca
January 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In Canada, we don't have formalized regional land-use and transportation planning structures. It is more ad-hoc, unlike the MOP structure in the US.
Came across a recent working paper that details some transferable lessons from their system to Canada. A School of Cities (UofT) paper. Interesting!
Came across a recent working paper that details some transferable lessons from their system to Canada. A School of Cities (UofT) paper. Interesting!
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"Whether President Trump likes it or not, he is a climate president, leading during a time when our planet is warming at record speed from burning fossil fuels and extreme weather events are causing deaths, destruction, & bankrupting our communities." - @abbiedillen.bsky.social on Paris Agreement
Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement
Record breaking climate emergencies will only get worse without sustained, urgent government commitment
earthjustice.org
January 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Whether President Trump likes it or not, he is a climate president, leading during a time when our planet is warming at record speed from burning fossil fuels and extreme weather events are causing deaths, destruction, & bankrupting our communities." - @abbiedillen.bsky.social on Paris Agreement
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An electric-powered mass transit vehicle, part of an electric streetcar network that carries 70 million riders a year, wrapped in an ad for gasoline. How demeaning.
January 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
An electric-powered mass transit vehicle, part of an electric streetcar network that carries 70 million riders a year, wrapped in an ad for gasoline. How demeaning.
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Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died on Wednesday. He was 82. nyti.ms/40qH6I6
Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South.
nyti.ms
January 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died on Wednesday. He was 82. nyti.ms/40qH6I6
Im/mobilities, land and climate change are inescapably linked. Disasters impact those with the least, disproportionality. We need to stop burning fossil fuels and must build (back, anew and retrofit) sustainably.
Inmates are fighting California wildfires in long-running and controversial practice
California has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the system is seen as exploitative.
www.npr.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Im/mobilities, land and climate change are inescapably linked. Disasters impact those with the least, disproportionality. We need to stop burning fossil fuels and must build (back, anew and retrofit) sustainably.
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Interesting new report by
@transenv
transportenvironment.org/articles/avi...
BTW this ⬇️ (travel activity growth offsetting technological progress) is the main dynamic of transport, and notably aviation to date
But if you go to an industry conference they'll assure you this time is different.
@transenv
transportenvironment.org/articles/avi...
BTW this ⬇️ (travel activity growth offsetting technological progress) is the main dynamic of transport, and notably aviation to date
But if you go to an industry conference they'll assure you this time is different.
January 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Interesting new report by
@transenv
transportenvironment.org/articles/avi...
BTW this ⬇️ (travel activity growth offsetting technological progress) is the main dynamic of transport, and notably aviation to date
But if you go to an industry conference they'll assure you this time is different.
@transenv
transportenvironment.org/articles/avi...
BTW this ⬇️ (travel activity growth offsetting technological progress) is the main dynamic of transport, and notably aviation to date
But if you go to an industry conference they'll assure you this time is different.
🤔 Fossil-fuel driven climate change is making insuring certain 'property markets' unprofitable. Insurers known this. But de-risking and reg. caps can extend coverage to riskier properties at a cost to everyone's premiums (insurers operate globally and profit-seek)... Is this status-quo worth saving?
How the devastating Los Angeles fires could deepen California's home insurance crisis
The massive fires that have destroyed much of Pacific Palisades and demolished thousands of homes and structures in Los Angeles County threaten an effort to fix California's troubled home insurance ma...
www.latimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🤔 Fossil-fuel driven climate change is making insuring certain 'property markets' unprofitable. Insurers known this. But de-risking and reg. caps can extend coverage to riskier properties at a cost to everyone's premiums (insurers operate globally and profit-seek)... Is this status-quo worth saving?
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In case you missed it, Mayor Olivia Chow is doing an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit and will answer questions Friday Jan 10 2-3pm!
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
January 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
In case you missed it, Mayor Olivia Chow is doing an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit and will answer questions Friday Jan 10 2-3pm!
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
Measures with a purpose📜! In a new paper with Nick Mooney and Prof. Léa Ravensbergen, we use the cumulative opportunity and competitive accessibility measures in a gender-sensitive examination of multimodal access to Mobility of Care destinations in Hamilton.
Exploring mobility of care with measures of accessibility
Accessibility, the ease of interacting with potential opportunities, is an increasingly important tool among transport planners aiming to foster equit…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Measures with a purpose📜! In a new paper with Nick Mooney and Prof. Léa Ravensbergen, we use the cumulative opportunity and competitive accessibility measures in a gender-sensitive examination of multimodal access to Mobility of Care destinations in Hamilton.
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My latest video take: the Premier is threatening to dismantle and criminalize encampments, but ultimately this is all abut masking his failure to build housing. Watch: www.instagram.com/p/DDNyHcXi7O2/
December 5, 2024 at 11:54 PM
My latest video take: the Premier is threatening to dismantle and criminalize encampments, but ultimately this is all abut masking his failure to build housing. Watch: www.instagram.com/p/DDNyHcXi7O2/
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Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
February 24, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
Another one: density without actual community engagement is unjust.
Tenants' fight against 'demoviction' earns sympathy at city hall | CBC News
A group of downtown tenants pleaded with a city committee on Wednesday to block the demolition of their homes, moving councillors to take a rare step they hope will pressure the developer to offer a better deal.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Another one: density without actual community engagement is unjust.
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Hi Bluesky TRBers, continuing our annual tradition with the #TRBAM reception spreadsheet for 2025!
As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025 TRB Annual Meeting Reception List
docs.google.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Hi Bluesky TRBers, continuing our annual tradition with the #TRBAM reception spreadsheet for 2025!
As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Folks @ttcalerts.bsky.social in Toronto is setting precedents for accessible paratransit that we need to stop now. The "Family of Services" model is coming to a city near you, unless we act together. In support of the campaign from
@ttcriders.bsky.social, see our letter: www.djno.ca/post/letter-...
@ttcriders.bsky.social, see our letter: www.djno.ca/post/letter-...
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Folks @ttcalerts.bsky.social in Toronto is setting precedents for accessible paratransit that we need to stop now. The "Family of Services" model is coming to a city near you, unless we act together. In support of the campaign from
@ttcriders.bsky.social, see our letter: www.djno.ca/post/letter-...
@ttcriders.bsky.social, see our letter: www.djno.ca/post/letter-...