Transportation roundup 2/5/15
Streets & Highways
News/other:
- Metro-North Train Hits S.U.V. in Railroad’s Deadliest Accident // New York Times
- After Metro-North Train Crash, Investigators Piece Through ‘Utter Chaos’ // New York Times
- Investigation Underway in Metro-North Train Crash // New York Times
- What to Do if Your Car Is Stuck on the Train Tracks // New York Times
- Metro-North Crash Brings New Trouble Amid String of Setbacks for Railroad // New York Times
- About 50 Percent of Major Roads Don’t Even Produce Enough Revenue to Cover Maintenance // Better Institutions
- U.S. Department of Transport warns of dystopian future for transport // The Stack
- New Maps Size Up Transportation Poverty Risks in 4 Cities // Next City
- Barry Diller’s Pier 55 Park: How Money Is Changing City Parks // New Republic
- Interactive: When Do Americans Leave For Work? // Flowing Data
- Consumers only spending 25 percent of money saved from cheap gas // Autoblog
Academic:
- Can compact rail transit corridors transform the automobile city? Planning for more sustainable travel in Los Angeles // Urban Studies
- Investigation of Pedestrian Crossing Speeds at Signalized Intersections with Heavy Pedestrian Volumes // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Driver Yielding at Traffic Control Signals, Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons, and Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacons in Texas // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- On the fundamental diagram for freeway traffic: A novel calibration approach for single-regime models // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Prediction of Driver Action at Signalized Intersections by Using a Nested Logit Model // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- GPS Data Analysis of the Impact of Tolling on Truck Speed and Routing // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Assessing the Use of Navigation Systems in the Trucking Industry // Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Like Uber, But for Local Governmental Policy: The Future of Local Regulation of the ‘Sharing Economy’ // Social Science Research Network [Jan. 14]
Parking
- DC Tech: On-Demand Valet Parking App Zirx Arrives in DC // DC Inno [Zirx]
- Valet app will park (and not steal) your car // CBS News [Valet Anywhere]
- My empty parking spot has a price // Minn Post
State DOT news & bulletins
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