Information about the travel forecasting package, Quick Response System II
I must digress. The first house Shirley and I bought was in the Detroit area. After looking at several gorgeous, ridiculously cheap, mansions in the City of Detroit, we decided to look for more modest digs in the suburbs. We wanted to identify the “good” neighborhoods near the GM Tech Center, so on a map I shaded 2-mile radius circles around every K-Mart. The closest hole …
There is a lot of misinformation about the novel coronavirus, and the crisis has been overly politicized. Responses by governments have been fragmented and uncoordinated. Many bad decisions have been made, and many bad decisions will continue to be made. My two engineering degrees are in the area of civil systems analysis, and I can …
It was 1965 and my sister told my family a joke. She said, “Recently a group of people boarded an airplane. After being seated an announcement came over the loud speaker. ‘This is a recording. You are being transported on the first ever automated airplane. There is no pilot. All flight systems are computer controlled …
Warning: Sarcasm ahead. Goodyear has apparently just invented a wheel that would allow a regular-looking car to fly. They are helping us baby boomers realize a dream from the pages of Popular Mechanics from the 1950s. An Intel guy says, quite seriously, flying cars will be here in five years. Uber agrees. Just think, instead …
In 2006 Hollywood gave us the movie, Who Killed the Electric Car?, which tried to paint General Motors as misguided or evil for repossessing and destroying almost the whole fleet of EV1s that it had manufactured. As you might remember the EV1 was a short-lived experiment lasting from about the 1996 to the 1999 model …
A recent post to the TMIP Forum by Suzanne Childress and subsequent replies gave me pause. The question was innocent enough: what VDF (volume-delay function) should be used with a 100% autonomous vehicle traffic stream. Two people answered that this was the wrong question to ask, but I don’t think this question is going away …
Checking some citations within a draft report that I have been reading led me to pervasive alternative facts about the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and traffic improvement strategies. It seems that not only are we daily subjected to incorrect interpretations about the sources of global warming, but we are additionally subjected to incorrect ideas …
Truth be told, I volunteered to be a Foresight Ambassador for NCHRP. My and the several other ambassadors’ mission was to spread the word about NCHRP Foresight Reports 750. This series of six reports, as you have probably heard, develops future scenarios for transportation development and planning. All rookie ambassadors were supplied with a one-day …