In Memoriam

Adding a Cycle Track does not need to reduce Motorway Performance on an Urban Arterial.

NYC has shown that you can take away space from cars and give it to bikes AND make traffic flow better at the same time!.  

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Imagining Complete Streets for Developing Africa

After more than 50 years of catering to the motorized traveler, North American transport

planners are pursuing a more modally balanced approach to street design. Their new approach is supported by focusing on multilayered network design, richly textured street designs and a

context sensitive approach to planning. 

As rapidly growing cities in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world develop and tune their transport infrastructure it’s possible to imagine how the new North American Complete Streets approach might be applied to build more useful streets for the world’s fastest growing cities.

Click Here for More Info concerning this paper that will be presented at CODATU 2015 in Instanbul next February.  


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A few more details and expressions of support in the Granite State

Earlier this year, Gray Chynoweth, CEO of Manchester high-tech company Dyn, asked a group of early career professionals at The Startup Institute in Boston how many of them would consider commuting to Manchester for work.

“I think it was like three out of 50 raised their hand,” he said. Off the cuff,  he asked them how many would commute to southern New Hampshire if there were a convenient commuter rail option.  This time, about 35 hands went up.

Interest in creating a passenger rail system from southern New Hampshire to Boston has been bubbling up for years, but stakeholders are more optimistic now than ever that it could turn into a reality. 

The $3.7 million Capitol Corridor study is halfway complete this month. On March 5 consultants  working for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation announced their most specific set of  extended options for the 73 miles between Boston and Concord to date at a public scoping meeting at the DOT in Concord

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Progress in New Hampshire

Extending passenger rail service from Massachusetts into Nashua and Manchester could

draw more riders each year than Amtrak’s Downeaster train, according to the chairman of the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority.

Preliminary estimates show commuter rail service in New Hampshire’s Capitol Corridor could draw as many as 3,100 boardings per day.

That number includes people taking the train south from Nashua and Manchester and those riding north to reach destinations in New Hampshire.

Extrapolated over the course of a year, the number of train trips to or from New Hampshire could top 800,000.

That number far exceeds the ridership for Amtrak’s popular Downeaster train, which runs between Boston and Brunswick, Maine, with a series of stops in New Hampshire. Amtrak reported close to 560,000 trips on the entire Downeaster line during its most recent fiscal year, which ended in October.

The figures were offered up for comparison Wednesday by New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority Chairman Tom Mahon. They’re another piece of data that could be used by proponents to bolster the argument for extending commuter rail service from Lowell, Mass., into New Hampshire.

The subject was the focus of a public forum Wednesday at the New Hampshire Department of Transportation building in Concord, where contractors studying commuter rail issues for the state presented their latest findings.

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Autonomous Cargo Vessels on the drawing board

This is an interesting twist in the path to autonomous vehicles but I suspect that the big benefits will come with automobiles, trucks and aircraft not cargo vessels. 

Imaging Complete Streets for Developing Africa

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Ten worst traffic jams in history

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Statistical Concepts Illustrated Through Interpretative Dance

University educators in Britain have produced four short films demonstrating different statistical concepts through dance. 

The films touch on Correlation, Frequency Distributions, Sampling and Standard Error, and Variance.

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