David M Levinson ⁂
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‪https://www.transportist.net @[email protected]‬ @transportist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Trnsprtst. Rogue Planner. Refreshingly Unromantic. So F*ing Lucid. fRSN. 2%. Research: #Access, #TransportEconomics, #NetworkEvolution, #Traffic. .. more

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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A new starter pack: go.bsky.app/LaeKYA2 . Let me know who else belongs in the comments.

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I’ve had students redesign this in class.

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Were urbanists in 1925 still complaining about the 1850s?

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ryanlcooper.com
"A divided self-refereeing big-tent can exercise no real agency. It reacts. It must hope for and rely upon the other party's incompetence. Politics becomes a game played out between one clear protagonist and an inchoate cast of minor characters." drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/10/04/a...
A fertile corpse
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transportist.net
Your regular reminders that cars are weapons (multiple examples (to be proven) in article).

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ahmedelgeneidy.bsky.social
Two fully funded PhD positions in Public transit planning and operations.
 
Interested candidates can find more information about the position, and complete an expression of interest form here: surveys.mcgill.ca/ls3/156813
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David Levinson saved the planet in Independence Day, seems fair.

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This is the advantage of quote-posting vs. replies. Quote-posters bring to their own feed what they have to say, but not the original feed. Replies subject readers of the original poster to their opinion. My sense is many/most of the replies are from reply-farms or are bots, while QP are people.
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Useful reminder here in some of the replies that people who share your politics are also capable of using them as a pretext to be awful to people and feel righteous about it bsky.app/profile/ocas...
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I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.
adamserwer.bsky.social
Useful reminder here in some of the replies that people who share your politics are also capable of using them as a pretext to be awful to people and feel righteous about it bsky.app/profile/ocas...
ocasio-cortez.house.gov
I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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Transportist: October 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 News & Links US Accessibility Observatory reports Access is Down Green Lights could have shorter cycles in Sydney, but…
Transportist: October 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 News & Links US Accessibility Observatory reports Access is Down Green Lights could have shorter cycles in Sydney, but the study was buried for no discernible reason…
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If Sydney doesn’t have an entry into the NRL Grand Final, did it even happen?

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Transport flavoured snacks.
Highway Cake

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siegman.biz
Liberating street design manuals and parking standards from behind their pay walls would be a step forward for road safety around the world. If everyone around the globe could see the standards that European countries have used to slash traffic fatalities, we’d all be better off.

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streets.mn
"Access to job opportunities by driving and transit declined between 2022 and 2023 in most large U.S. cities, but it improved by walking and biking, according to new research from CTS’s Accessibility Observatory (AO)."
For drivers and transit users, job access in nearly all major US cities is on the decline
A new report states that between 2022 and 2023, job access via car and transit declined across most large U.S. cities; walking and biking saw modest gains.
streets.mn

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carlbergstrom.com
This, but first I make sure the classroom recording system named for Jeremy Bentham's dystopian surveillance prison is running smoothly.

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Noah Williams‬
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Routine for every class now:
- sign out previous person who used the system
- sign in to AV system computer
- verify sign-in with authenticator on phone
- wait for phone face ID to recognize
- wait for AV system computer to load
- kill Microsoft Teams auto-launch
- sign in to course system web page
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- verify sign-in with authenticator on phone
- wait for phone face ID to recognize
- navigate through course system to zoom
- launch zoom for student still waiing on visa
- wait for AV system projector warm up
- sign in to Acrobat to open PDFs
- verify sign-in with authenticator on phone
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- wait for phone face ID to recognize
- open lecture slides
- adjust in-room camera (if working, call AV if not)
- lower projection screen
- open slides
- greet class
- start lecture
- raise screen to access whiteboard
- mute camera projector
- try multiple whiteboard makers to find one with ink