Unpaving Paradise: Making Room for Up to 20 Million Homes on Parking Near Transit
“Off-street parking requirements are a fertility drug for cars” —Donald Shoup
Fatal Proximity: Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths Near America's Transit Stations
This post is dedicated to the memory of Amy Polk and Khion Williams
“We Made a Mistake” Six Ways to Fix the Urban Highway
“The purpose of transportation is not to move vehicles, it is to give people access." — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Pas De Deux: Transit, Highways, and a Century of Contested Ground
“"In the race for space, the early bird doesn't just get the worm. It gets to define the landscape for everyone who comes after." — Anonymous
How I Taught My Computer to Read a Map: A Computer Vision Approach to Identifying Hostile Infrastructure
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust
“You is No Gentleman!” A History of Violence and Resistance on Swann Street
“Our streets are calendars containing who we were and who we will be next.” —Colson Whitehead
The Eight Types: A National Typology for Transit-Oriented Housing
“The act of arranging information becomes an act of insight” —Edward R. Tufte
From JARC to Justice40 to JD Vance: Transit’s Role in Social Policy
“I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.” Robert F. Kennedy Sr. (Photo by Clayton Ewerton via Pexels)
Welcome to the Loneliest Transit Station in America
"Nothing is more lonely than the sound of distant train whistles in the night." - Thomas Wolfe
I Was an FTA Grants Manager. Here’s how the Trump Funding Freeze Could Impact Public Transportation
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
Kitchen Confidential: How my Transit Station Website Really Works
“No one is born a great cook. One learns by doing.” —Julia Child
On Using Data to Make More Data
“Money makes money. And the money that money makes, makes money.” — Benjamin Franklin
When Data Ages Out: Transit-Oriented Data Lifecycle Management
"Until the Future!"--Epigraph from This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub.
“Add it In or Take it Out?” Reasoning with Transit Station Data (Part 2)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein
“Is it One or is it Many?” Reasoning with Transit Station Data (Part 1)
"To be is to be perceived." --George Berkeley
Filling Data Gaps In OpenStreetMap
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." —Ben Franklin