Interesting-looking new research showing that walking increased and car use slightly decreased in German cities as a result of COVID doi.org/10.1016/j.trip

Interesting-looking book that I hadn't realised had been published elgaronline.com/monobook/boo...

🔥 Individual or system change?🔥 This debate has been at the center of much of my social media engagement for years (causing a fair bit of frustration). Yet I have never published research directly addressing it. Until now. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Germany: More flying, less trains and bus travel.

German weekly Spiegel is worried that the aviation fuel shortage / price increase will lead to "cancelling holidays" 47% of German holiday trips over 5 days are by plane these days www.drv.de/public/Downl...

Once again, a shoutout to the journal referee who rejected our paper, saying “no one uses public transit to access health care.” Enjoy your privilege, whoever you are.

NEW: Dubai, London Heathrow and Los Angeles airports produce three times as much CO2 as the entire city of Paris. The latest data from our Airport Tracker shows the scale of aviation emissions at the airport level. The results are striking 🧵⬇️

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

my fav part is how the artist they commissioned for the piece was also like"what the fuck are you on?

An inconvenient truth from @giuliomattioli.bsky.social: “To make car use reliable & convenient, we made the use of other modes less reliable & convenient, for example by giving cars priority over the use of street space. Moving in the other direction would require taking some of that space away.”

Spot on! To different extents in US and EU, from the '50s onwards we *actively* worked to make cities more car-friendly, giving them more space, confining pedestrians to narrow sidewalks, banning bikes on roads, bulldozing homes to make way. Car supremacy was engineered. Time to reverse course.

I am quoted in this Guardian article on (how hard it is) to reduce car use in European cities, even in places like Vienna www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting-looking new study into the institutional side of car dependence doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

Mobility Hubs next.

This joke applies to so many hyped "big new things" in transport research. And as soon as they fall out of fashion, we collectively move to the next one, without much reflection.

In 2024, more than 60% of new cars sold in Ethiopia were fully electric. It now ranks alongside global EV leaders by share of new car sales. Ahead of most of Europe. More in future newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Our new paper "Financing ‘sustainable welfare’: a critical review of the options" has now been published in New Political Economy. In it, @nicklangridge.bsky.social and I assess financing options for welfare without growth and discuss wider policy implications. It's open access: tinyurl.com/y6z374x6

Very interesting new study finding that *even in large European cities*, in most places it is easier to access opportunities by car than by public transport arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01019 The exceptions are Paris, Zurich and the innermost parts of Milan and Barcelona

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

Is forcing dominant websites such as Deutsche Bahn's int.bahn.de to show competitors' trains always a good thing? It can make things very hard for passengers, here's why...

With a fuel shortage looming, some (including the leader of the German Left party, below) are calling for saving fuel by cancellling short-haul flights spiegel.de/politik/deut... Sounds like a good idea but the problem is: it will save *very little fuel* - SHORT THREAD

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting example of motonormative double standards from Germany . At present, fare evasion on public transport is a *crime* that can land you in prison, not just get you fines. For illegal parking, however, that is not the case. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Just remember when people say "where will the EU get all the money to do X". Here. This is where #EU #speirgorm

What a great idea transportenvironment.org/articles/lea...

Great point here. When regulation is introduced, we are often warned that it should be "technology neutral" But when the price of fossil fuels increases, we have no qualms introducing tax cuts that target just fossil-fuel-burning-technologies only.

The German government has decided to react to the fuel price increase with the usual tax cut / #Tankrabatt This study shows, however, that less than 7% of the total relief provided this way goes to households in need www.springerprofessional.de/analyse-der-...

Interesting-looking new study into the attitudes towards street space reallocation, ranging from "car-independent" to "status-quo satisfied" doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for @telexhu.bsky.social shows the opposition Tisza party leading Orbán's Fidesz 55–38, with the far-right Our Homeland around the 5% threshold. Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.

I am quoted in this article (in German) on fuel price increases and what measures (not) to introduce to deal with their impact www.t-online.de/heim-garten/...

It's quite obvious how much more car-brained Bavaria is compared to Switzerland. München has quite good transit, but not to the point of prohibiting curb-side parking to give trams their own lane, something that Zürich does systematically.

My talk on car dependence research for the Otago Transport Research Network & Living Streets Aotearoa Webinar Series is now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUu-...

New German military service law will require most young men to inform authorities when leaving the country for long periods: 🔗 https://eurac.tv/9Yt7

I am quoted in this Guardian article on Paris' sustainable transport transition www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I find this extremely concerning

I was interviewed by Dutch newspaper of record NRC about the upcoming fuel crisis in the transport sector www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Great to see extensive coverage of transport poverty on Italy's best selling newspaper www.corriere.it/economia/tra...

Interesting-looking new article on road safety as a blindspot for criminology doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

Fuel shortages are now discussed as a real possibility in the next weeks. If that happens, you might be interested in this study mapping the most vulnerable areas in England (because of high expenditure on car fuel, low income and poor accessibility) twitter-thread.com/t/1134020934...

Fuel shortages are now discussed as a real possibility over the coming weeks. If that happens, you might be interested in this study mapping the most vulnerable areas in Italy (because of high car ownership & use and low income) twitter-thread.com/t/1692451166...

Fuel shortages are now discussed as a real possibility over the coming weeks. If that happens, you might be interested in this study mapping the most vulnerable areas in Germany (because of high car ownership, low income and poor public transport)

Another clear warning that the emphasis on reducing short haul flights is maybe a politically and technologically attractive gaul, but overall barking up the wrong tree considering its limited effect

Long-haul flights are a small share of flights, but a large share of fuel burnt for passenger aviation

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

The Philippines declare an #energy #emergency in wake of #Iran war. #Fossilfuel dependency makes countries and people more vulnerable than ever. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oil price in real terms since 1968. Discuss.

A sensible 10 point mitigation plan from the IEA. www.iea.org/news/new-iea...

The @iea.org is wisely urging countries to reduce highway speed limits to reduce energy use. This win-win policy will also reduce the frequency and severity of road crashes.