How transport journals weed out qualitative research and why it matters Happy to share that my new paper with all start team of Orly Linovski, @kateontransport.bsky.social, Mike Smart is online and Open Access in Transportation.

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

SB2111 in Illinois also: —Eliminates all parking requirements in areas within 1/2 mi of transit stations or 1/8 mi of frequent bus routes. —Gives transit agencies the ability to undertake transit-supportive development, including through purchasing new land and developing joint development projects.

We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜 First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social: 🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗 Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

Bored with TRB's censorship and cancellations? Submit your work to the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice instead -- proposals due October 25. www.crossroadsconvening.org

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Hearing reports that TRB is censoring annual meeting content. Authors are receiving a "Notice of Non-Selection" when notified that their papers were not sent out for review. Esp shitty for students who submitted work on Aug 1 only to wait two months for no reviews. Shameful behavior by TRB.

TREATED AND 'STREETED': "The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found." - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/23/t...

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two. I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Love this campaign from @mountainkeeper.bsky.social fighting a proposed highway expansion in New York’s Hudson Valley by presenting an irresistible vision of all the useful transportation upgrades $1.4b could bring to the region instead. www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/invest_in_ou...

I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...

This project documents Black travel networks & resilience. Your memories can power the research! Learn more and add to this growing body of work: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky How did Black families travel during Jim Crow? Learn the history

A few days ago, Berlin opened a new stretch of urban motorway, with the stated aim to reduce congestion. Today, the stretch was temporarily closed because of too much congestion.

Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

EXCLUSIVE: In response to threats of criminal prosecution from the Department of Justice for performing gender-affirming care, the University of Michigan hospital system will tomorrow announce they are ending gender-affirming care in the UM hospital system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

Massive service cuts in Philadelphia yesterday and are just the beginning. Public schools start today and many students rely on SEPTA. Unless state and local govt’s step up, we will see the same thing at many transit agencies in the US more details @ wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/service-cuts/

Cars are getting more expensive. People take out longer loans to afford them. Longer loans means more total interest cost, adding thousands of dollars to the already expensive car. And when they go to trade it in, they find they still owe more than the car is worth. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

New job! We're looking for a qualitative researcher to work with us on two projects, a participatory project on urban greening and a mixed-methods study on impacts of cycle infrastructure. 0.9 FTE for 8 months (combined maternity cover role). More info: vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

Erick Guerra’s new book is very good. I particularly liked chapter 5, How, Where, and Why Do We Build Roads?

1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant. Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages. They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates. These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.

The 14th amendment to the constitution is quite clear: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State." You can't just exclude certain people from the count!

It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.

“The ransom that [Columbia] ended up paying strikes me as a pretty good value if you decide you’re going to pay ransom,” he added. “But the problem with paying ransom is that it incentivizes the taking of more hostages.” www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

Not surprising but depressing nonetheless

The world we live in: "The Trump administration wants to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels like oil and gas... China is racing in an altogether different direction. It’s banking on a world that runs on cheap electricity from the sun and wind." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our multi-campus research team shared preliminary results from our work about the evacuation experiences of transit riders with LA county transportation and emergency management professionals yesterday! Can’t wait to release these findings publicly later this summer

I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that Michael Bloomberg—who spent over $8 million supporting Cuomo—ALSO campaigned on a free bus proposal in 2009.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Senate GOP is proposing a massive subsidy for car buyers, worth thousands of dollars off peoples’ taxes. By comparison, the federal infrastructure law subsidizes transit at the level of about $65/person/year (and gives highways ~$205/person/year).

Since there's lots of talk right now in this space about free fares on transit, I wanted to re-up this thread I wrote in 2022 that details what we know from research about the pros and cons of this policy:

The highway lobby!

State of the parking garage blockade right now. Protesters are zip-tying and duct taping the Lime scooters and bikes in a 21st century answer to the barricades of Paris

Banning cars can be a handy slogan. But I wish advocates could understand that you need to know and master the toolbox that will actually help the well-intentioned policymakers deprioritizing cars in our mobility mix. That is why we are working on something we hope will be online after summer.

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

Pinch me! TWO great papers by all-female authors in one day. This one shows the (lack of) gender diversity in transport geography over time, and the topics more likely to be explored by female-led vs non-female-lead research teams. Diversity matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚐 New paper out! My final paper on community transport with @timschwanen.bsky.social at @tsuoxford.bsky.social is now published open access in Journal of Rural Studies. What’s it about? See 🧵 below!

Having moved to The University of Hong Kong's Department Urban Planning and Design, I am currently accepting applications for Postdocs, PhD students, and Research Assistants working along my research lines.

Important @nextcity.org op-ed (Barron & Dotson) on the value of qualitative data (not that quant isn't valuable too)! Gender dynamics in its underfunding. In transportation, frustrating that it is often treated as anecdotal.

TRB is dissolving all committees. This wasn't unexpected, but they're couching it in a technocratic need to "get back to basics" and ease administrative burden when in fact it's a great big shit sandwich that we're all expected to eat and not make a fuss about.

Conducting qualitative research in transportation can be challenging because it is often not considered "valid" data. But the pure joy and learning I get out of interviewing people about their transportation experiences makes it worth the sometimes uphill climb to get it published!

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

A few years ago "transport poverty" was just a niche academic concept. Now the EU has published its recommendations on how to tackle it & a helpful data dashboard transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/... I have made a thread with my first impressions here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19270...