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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 7h

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting event coming up doughnuteconomics.org/events/launc...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting-looking new article into how social practices in the football industry are flight-intensive.

There's been much research on how that's the case within academia, but I feel like we've been overlooking other sectors... doi.org/10.1080/2331...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting-looking article on the uneven development of of e-scooter services in the NRW region in Germany doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 3d

IDK maybe I just pay less attentions to other sectors 😆

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 21d

Transportation research is under threat. The Transportation Research Board is canceling contracts, restructuring committees, and signaling that it will censor work presented at its annual meeting.

Read out new commentary in Transport Policy for more: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lluT,L-HR...

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 13d

Hearing reports that TRB is censoring annual meeting content. Authors are receiving a "Notice of Non-Selection" when notified that their papers were not sent out for review. Esp shitty for students who submitted work on Aug 1 only to wait two months for no reviews. Shameful behavior by TRB.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d

Yes thank you!

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds very interesting thank you!

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d

No I meant more like why did we 10 years ago expect the transport system to change radically because of AVs and 10 years later basically nothing has changed because of that?

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d

Help colleagues!

Does anyone have good references on how in the transport sector we tend to fall prey to the "hype cycle" and keep having unrealistic expectations that new technologies will "change everything" or even "solve everything" in our sector?

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fede @hymage.bsky.social · 7d

After exploiting the Italian navy support to the flotilla for electoral purposes in a local election, Giorgia Meloni made the bold move of washing her hands of the matter and, as is now her habit, sitting back and doing nothing except accusing everyone of shady dealings.

Giorgia Meloni
@GiorgiaMeloni

I read with astonishment the words of the Flotilla that accuses me of considering "a danger" unarmed civilians and ships loaded with aid.

The truth is simple: those aids can be delivered without risks through the safe channels already set up. Insisting on wanting to force a naval blockade means making oneself -knowingly or not- instruments of those who want to blow up every possibility of a ceasefire.

Therefore, spare us the lessons in morality on peace if your goal is escalation. And do not exploit the civilian population of Gaza if you are not truly interested in their fate.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 9d

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants »

La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting-looking article the impact of boomers entering retirement on tourism and related climate emissions doi.org/10.1080/1368...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 8d

I was very sorry to hear about Oliver Schwedes' passing today

He was my main contact person during my time as a guest-PhD student at TU Berlin in 2011-2012 and I remember him as a kind and professional man

I enjoyed reading his original research contributions on transport policy through the years

Changing Cities e.V. @ccitiesorg.bsky.social · 8d

Oliver Schwedes hat uns gezeigt, dass Verkehrspolitik mehr ist als Infrastruktur und Technik. Er hat sie als ein Spiegelbild gesellschaftlicher Machtverhältnisse verstanden und uns ermutigt, diese Macht zu hinterfragen.

Unser herzliches Beileid seiner Familie und Freund*innen🖤

Zum Tod von Oliver Schwedes | Changing Cities

Die Nachricht vom plötzlichen Tod Oliver Schwedes hat uns tief erschüttert. Wir möchten Familie und Freund*innen unser herzliches Beileid zum Ausdruck bringen. Er war engagierter Mitstreiter für…

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d

New study finds that introducing a 120km/h speed limit on German motorways reduces road deaths by 35%.

Clemens Schürmann @schuermann.bsky.social · 14d

Ein DRITTEL weniger Verkehrstote durch Tempo120 auf Autobahnen 😮 Bahnbrechende neue Studie von Maike Metz-Peeters @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

➡️ Unfälle mit Schwerverletzten ↘️ 26%
➡️ Verkehrstote ↘️ 35%
➡️ Unfallkosten ↘️ 216 Mio. € jährlich
➡️ tatsächliche Effekte ggf. höher

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Studie der Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Bei Tempo 120 gäbe es ein Drittel weniger Verkehrstote

Ein Tempolimit würde die Unfälle mit Schwerverletzten laut einer Studie um 26 Prozent senken, die Zahl der Verkehrstoten sogar um 35 Prozent. Die Einsparung von Krankheitskosten wäre enorm.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting-looking new study on the impact on European regions of ETS2 which will increase the price of heating and transport from 2027 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 15d

Incredible to finally see people speaking the plain truth about the genocide in Gaza on mainstream TV

German support for Israel a 'legal and moral mistake' - Law and ethics professor Janina Dill

YouTube video by DW News

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 17d

"When we die, we won't be asked whether we believed, but whether we were believable."
Judge Rosario Livatino, murdered by the mafia on 21 September 1990.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 17d

What counts as essential travel? How does this differ across people? What level of mobility can be sustained within planetary boundaries?

These researchers get closer to answering those questions than most. Wish this kind of thinking was more central to climate & transport policy making in the UK.

Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 17d

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 17d

Clearly, these are just the first steps in that direction, but it gives us a place to start, which is great. Hopefully much research will follow suit.

And I was impressed by how the authors handled and brought together the literature, which is so disparate and siloed!

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 17d

What Marlin & co-authors accomplish here is something I've banged my head against repeatedly in my career (how to quantify minimum mobility needs).

I've always brushed it aside as "too difficult" but always hoped someone smarter than me would do it. They have!

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 17d

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

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