(Drawing) Rings Around The World

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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

We choose how congested our roads are

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This BBC article about traffic congestion in Sao Paulo carries on like 180km traffic jams are an inescapable fact of life there and congest...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Mapping pedestrian casualties in London

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The Department for Transport publish full data on recorded road casualties on data.gov.uk , and I've been playing around with the data ...
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Problems with comments

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Apparently some comments are not appearing on the site, even though I can see them in the Blogger admin system. This seems to be a problem w...
Saturday, 22 September 2012

Reviewing TfL's road safety plan, Part 2: Which target?

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This is the second post looking at Transport for London's draft road safety plan, which is out for consultation here until the 28 Septe...
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Monday, 17 September 2012

Reviewing TfL's draft road safety plan

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Transport for London are currently consulting on a draft new Road Safety Plan for London which sets out proposed targets and policies for t...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

More cycling than car traffic in central London during the Games?

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Just a quick post speculating on a couple of interesting bits of info about transport trends in London. First, according to @bitoclass on Tw...
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Monday, 10 September 2012

The fatal/serious bike casualty rate per km in London is 30x that for cars; And why bikes need more space because they take up so little

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TfL have published a study (under 'Research reports' here ) entitled 'Levels of collision risk in Greater London' that I thi...
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Monday, 3 September 2012

Robocars will change everything, somehow or other

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I've seen very little discussion in Britain about driverless cars (or, if you prefer, robocars), but plenty in the US (see this and thi...
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The amazing fall in urban crime rates, and the downside

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The Economist has an article about the sharp decline in crime in American cities since the early 1990s, noting that there is no consensus o...
Friday, 31 August 2012

Land values and urban history

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Via the Urban Demographics blog , here 's a short video of Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt of the LSE discussing his analysis of a unique dataset of...
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