Failures in Research Ethics, Transportation Is Not Immune

If you are a transportation researcher, you absolutely must make yourself aware of the scandal currently embroiling the field of academic criminology. Through either deliberate deceit or incomprehensible incompetence a group of researchers (eleven different co-authors, in total) published a series of articles with dubious findings from a custom survey.  All these articles had a …

Comments on “Forecasting the Impossible”

Norman Marshall’s article, “Forecasting the impossible: The status quo of estimating traffic flows with static traffic assignment and the future of dynamic traffic assignment,” slams conventional modeling practices.  Marshall states that MPOs routinely test alternatives that create unrealistically large flows on freeways and the consequential delays are so erroneous as to invalidate any impact analysis …