Excited to share that the 1st paper of my dissertation has been published! In this study, we developed and applied the novel JTEV framework in Columbus, OH. Thankful to Jeffrey Bielicki, Jeffrey Jacquet and my PhD advisor @huyentkle.bsky.social Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7I87tZ6a...

STOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉 Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡 Personal thread below! rdcu.be/eQ7q0

Somebody’s watching me… and my anxiety (They blinked their eyes as I walked past them).

Why does Elsevier have to make it so hard for reviewers to request for an extension? I had to beg multiple times via emails and through the editorial manager website to no avail. All emails failed to deliver.

Funny how people without PhDs in the respective fields insist that their pet product is excellent in something they don't even know about.

Something very beautiful and healing to read today: “How?” I said. “How did you keep from breaking?” “I broke,” she said. “That is how I kept from breaking.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

MIT has created an excellent checklist for those making data backups on their own: libraries.mit.edu/data-managem... Data is special. Treat it with care!

A PSA for US Census geodata users: while the TIGER/Line shapefiles are inaccessible, all Census geographies are still up via the TigerWeb API Endpoints are here: tigerweb.geo.census.... Use @JosiahParry's {arcgislayers} package to pull them into #rstats with minimal fuss

Abdirashid's first paper (as the first author)! Proud-advisor moment 🎉

And most research universities won't function/exist. More than half of the grant amounts pays for uni's operations (i.e., overhead). At my (public research) uni, state funding only accounts for <11% of its annual budget. The rest comes from endowment, tuition, and of course overhead from grants.

"In most cities, ~ 80% of the crashes occur on 15-20% of roadways. We can make changes to that number. We don’t have to change 100% of our roadways, but we can be strategic & target these places and immediately see benefits in no longer killing our neighbours." -Kelcie Ralph

Good job Spain! Many studies say marriage is the most influential factor for well-being (not just finance) of children and adults alike, but they omit the fact that most govt's policies are biased toward married couples and biased against unmarried individuals, making the latter struggle even more.

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... This site has info on the economic impact of NIH in your state, if you want to write your senators about this.

Ha, I've finally figured out how to make a calendar entry from an email in Outlook online (not desktop). Just drag the mail to the calendar icon, and a new window with the calendar will pop out.

OK nerds of Bluesky, could you tell us your tricks/ hacks to work more effectively? It could be email, scheduling, reading, or ANYTHING. I've started a list with my tricks here, hope to see more! #AcademicChatter #academicbluesky #academic docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Quick question on #ebike: does it work at -18oC (0 F)? I’m tempting to bike next week but not sure if I have to pedal x-hard if the battery dies.

👀A week before the LA fires, a massive fire at Kantamanto Market in Ghana “reduced huge swaths of the world's largest second-hand clothing market to ashes, destroying millions of items of used clothing and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 30,000 people” (CBC News)

NEW EPISODE: "How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard." Why do people behave so badly behind the wheel of a car? Why do reporters use passive language to describe traffic violence? @drtaragoddard.bsky.social joins us to talk about her fascinating research. thewaroncars.org/2024/12/17/1...

Me after 4 days of conference #TRB2025

Yvonne Lont on supply chain management maladaptation using system dynamics and agent-based models #TRB2025 @tpmtudelft.bsky.social

Armita Kar on health care visits in Columbus, OH #TRB2025

Thiago Carvalho from McGill presenting his research on tolerable travel time and its impact on travel satisfaction. Research is funded by NSERC and SSHRC-CRSH (Mobilizing Justice Partnership ) you can access the paper in here tram.mcgill.ca/Research/Pub...

Excited to share findings from my dissertation project in equitable transition to electric vehicles at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Doctoral Workshop on Transportation Modeling. Profoundly grateful to my advisor @huyenkle.bsky.social & committee for the support!

Lindsay Braun on the bias in equity assessment of walkability #TRB2025

Happening now: @transitharmony.bsky.social on inequity vicious cycle #TRB2025 poster B558

Happening now: Check out Ruochen Yin’s work on exposure to heat and noise during active travel. Poster B540 @trb.org #TRB2025 #TRBAM

Measures with a purpose📜! In a new paper with Nick Mooney and Prof. Léa Ravensbergen, we use the cumulative opportunity and competitive accessibility measures in a gender-sensitive examination of multimodal access to Mobility of Care destinations in Hamilton.

If you’re at #TRB2025 today, please join the doctoral research workshop on travel behavior and modeling at 151B 1:30pm to hear @abdirashid.bsky.social discussing equitable transition to electric vehicles and @soukhova.bsky.social on accessibility measures. And many other interesting topics!

There you go #tesla #cybertruck

Hi Bluesky TRBers, continuing our annual tradition with the #TRBAM reception spreadsheet for 2025! As always, please add receptions and share with friends and colleagues. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the TRB Annual Meeting next month! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

News and magazines could have taken this opportunity to write about denied coverage and the crooked insurance industry (health and others). But instead, they all wrote about a dead CEO and how NYC is wasting $10k of tax money + enormous police time/ resources to investigate just another homicide.

Amtrak welcomed 32.8 million passengers on the passenger rail system, a 15% increase from the previous year. Customers can look forward to rail service improvements in 2025 with billions in investments.

License ebikes? Wow

Last time I waited 5 minutes to across a street, I was looking for bricks to throw randomly on the street. What can I say? Boredom can drive a pedestrian crazy.

@njklein.bsky.social, Orly Linovski, Mike Smart & I r researching qualitative research in transportation & r starting a listserv for qual researchers in transport. Hope it can be a forum for community building sharing insights/challenges, exchanging resources, collaboration & more. DM for sign up .

We now have a sizable group of #transport/ #mobility researchers on Bluesky. You can find them below. Let me know if you'd like to be added. 1. Transport/ Mobility Researchers: bsky.app/starter-pack... (I can add you here) 2. Transport Research: bsky.app/starter-pack... (by @transportist.net) 1/2

Welcome @drrachellowe.bsky.social 🦋 New added to my environmental #health list #episky go.bsky.app/LAbKBkX

Unsurprising study results, but MTA seems overreacting. Why not using this as an opportunity to advocate for more investments in indoor air pollution control at subway stations? Would have tremendous health benefits given how high the MTA ridership is. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...

For decades, different groups have tried to get Texas on board with the idea of high speed rail in the Lone Star State. Each time, the proposals have been derailed, partially thanks to Texas-based Southwest Airlines. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New year resolution: I will treat my 4 browsers (on desktop, laptop, tablet, phone) as 4 kitchen sinks that need to be cleaned at least once a week. Meaning I’ll close as many tabs as I open them. #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Unsurprising study results, but MTA seems overreacting. Why not using this as an opportunity to advocate for more investments in indoor air pollution control at subway stations? Would have tremendous health benefits given how high the MTA ridership is. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

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My first post on Bluesky must be about "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (coming in March). I am so excited about it. I also received phenomenal endorsements. More coming soon, but it can already be pre-ordered: www.prometheusbooks.com/978149308664...

Hi all - please help me populate this list! go.bsky.app/LdvmSxi

Here is a starter pack for transportation / mobility researchers if you want to follow academic research news or find your old network from Twitter. I'm still adding more so recommendations are very welcome! go.bsky.app/33kwFxs #transport #mobility

NEW: Many Americans say people in their community are driving more dangerously than before the pandemic. But is that perception borne out in reality? A review of the latest available statistics suggests that it is. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

My department at Cornell is hiring! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Data Analytics academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29102

This is us upon hearing “Free food!”

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve had in the past: - Tutor - Translator - Freelancer (web/graphic design) - Study tour assistant / interpreter - Waitress - Library assistant - Book store assistant - Urban planner