🚍🪴Cities becoming less sustainable with more home/hybrid working?
WTP for PT access has fallen, especially in smaller cities & costlier housing markets.
📜 Blog: rebrand.ly/n9frpcg
📰 Paper: rebrand.ly/dcj3xjk
@uofgussp.bsky.social @ubdc.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @rafa-vdz.bsky.social
Drawings of six non-standard cycles. First row: an upright tandem, and upright delta trike Second row: an e-assist clip-on handcycle attached to a manual wheelchair and a wheelchair transporter trike Third row: a recumbent tadpole trike and a side-by-side tandem delta trike.
"But everyone knows what I mean when I say "bike"!
While that may be true, when we talk about 'bikes' it's easy for many people to forget about those who need to use non-standard cycles such as trikes, recumbents and tandems.
#trains #transport #datavis #datascience
chronotrains.com - great tool for estimating travel distance vs travel times
created by Benjamin Tran Dinh
tip by @forrest.nyc
Photograph of Dr. Fiona Crawford presenting at the front of a lecture theatre. The projector shows two bar charts with a title of cycling frequency, but it isn't possible to make out the details.
I really enjoyed participating in the Cycling & Society symposium at @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social this week. I managed to get a photo of @ficrawford.bsky.social presenting our paper looking at how different impairments affect people’s participation in cycling.
Photograph of the Thai Orchid restaurant on Argyle Street. Their sign overhead has been removed and under is an older sign which reads "Blythswood Press Agency".
I do enjoy seeing an old sign underneath a newer one.
It is very tempting.
That's disappointing. Sounds like something that would be very useful.
Photograph of the cycle lane, road, and pavement on Argyle Street looking west. There is a large sign on a stand in the cycle lane announcing that the road on the right is closed. It is blocking the cycle lane.
I'm not sure this was the intended use of the new cycle lane on Argyle Street.
Yes, it made me feel slightly better about how things are here.
Photograph looking across a pedestrian crossing. The near side of the crossing is difficult to access because of two poles, a large sign, a railing, and what looks like an electric vehicle charger.
A fascinating choice of where to put the crossing and street clutter. Spotted in Strasbourg.
Screenshot of a PowerPoint title slide. The title of the talk is "An overview of an open-access accessibility dataset series in Great Britain. The speakers are Rafael Verduzco-Torres and David Philip McArthur. Logos are displayed for the Urban Big Data Centre, UKRI ESRC, and the University of Glasgow.
I'm remotely attending the "Rethinking Accessibility: Insights from Transport Data Science" event at University of Exeter this morning. @rafa-vdz.bsky.social and I are presenting some of our ongoing work of producing public transport accessibility indicators at the @ubdc.bsky.social.
Have you got a few minutes to answer some quick questions on social and environmental policies?
One of my grad students would be very grateful for your help (UK only, sorry)
research.sc/participant/...
I enjoyed this opinion piece. Sadly, I think the argument applies across a lot of transport research. I find it quite depressing sometimes.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
There is still time to apply to join us on our MSc Urban Transport programme in September.
Not long left to apply for this PhD scholarship. With such an interesting project and excellent supervisors, it's a great opportunity.
There is something deeply absurd about the modern pedestrian crossing. You press the beg-button and then you wait. And wait. And wait.
Interminable wait times reveal a deeper pathology. The pedestrian is, at best, an afterthought - at worst, an obstruction.
www.eta.co.uk/news/pedestr...
Several new people and orgs added to this starter pack since I first shared, so worth rechecking if you saw it previously.
Also, 📢 @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and @jilliananable.bsky.social have now joined the party! 🎉
New fully funded PhD studentship from @rafa-vdz.bsky.social has just been advertised!
Exciting opportunity to work on 'Big Data' relating to transport accessibility and employment with a fab team including Rafa and @nickbailey37.bsky.social at @ubdc.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
If I were looking for a PhD scholarship, this would be it. Great supervisors and a very interesting project.
I'd love to have this in Glasgow.
I think the botanical gardens at the People's Palace are still closed because the council couldn't afford to make the greenhouse safe. There are botanical gardens in the west end though. Those are worth a visit.
No BBC, the bollards aren’t “crash prone”. The cars are. 🤦🏻♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Screen grab of Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas.
It wouldn't be Christmas without her.
Spotify Wrapped-esque summary of my top artists this year: 1. Taylor Swift 2. Laufey 3. Olivia Rodrigo 4. Eydís Evensen 5. Bear McCreary with 14,825 minutes of music listening time
Spotify Wrapped-esque summary of my top songs this year: 1. love is embarassing by Olivia Rodrigo 2. New Romantics by Taylor Swift 3. Dreaming of Light by Eydís Evensen 4. Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter 5. Bewitched by Laufey
I'm always jealous of everyone's Spotify Wrapped stats bc I'm an Elder Millennial who still buys music and listens w/iTunes/Music, so I've always missed out.
BUT NOT THIS YEAR. I exported my library on January 1 and used #rstats to make my own
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/12...
Photograph of the screen of a CO2 monitor. It shows 3830 ppm. It also shows a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 63%. The device model, aranet 4, is also visible.
Kind of wishing I hadn't looked at the CO2 concentration on the Glasgow Subway this morning.
@Virtuocity, we are looking for a programmer to join a team of software developers undertaking research in road safety and new technologies. Come and join our team: Immersive Simulation Programmer
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
These are the people from our division at UoG that I have found so far: go.bsky.app/U5zNU7r
I've finally discovered Bluesky! I've found some great starter packs for transport, but most are North America focused. Thought I'd set up a UK focused one.
Let me know who else I can add!
[Many official orgs not over here yet - please let me know if they pop up]
go.bsky.app/jKPCeT
A new starter pack: go.bsky.app/LaeKYA2 . Let me know who else belongs in the comments.
