Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh (@ghassanabulebde) 's Twitter Profile
Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh

@ghassanabulebde

Professor of Civil Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah. Educated @ the Univ. of Illinois (PhD.), Univ. of New Brunswick (MS), and Yarmouk Univ.(BS)

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Timely work by Dubai's RTA to support healthy sustainable transport options-- way to go..... Soft Mobility Project to cover 3 Dubai areas this March tinyurl.com/tpdtn6h via Dubai Media Office

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#GDP is broken. We need a new measure for the growth of individual income (democratic), not average income (plutocratic). SFI's Ole Peters of LML offers up the math for #DDP, a revolutionary lens for #economics: ergodicityeconomics.com/2020/02/26/dem… #wealth #math #inequality

#GDP is broken. We need a new measure for the growth of individual income (democratic), not average income (plutocratic).

SFI's <a href="/ole_b_peters/">Ole Peters</a> of <a href="/LdnMathLab/">LML</a> offers up the math for #DDP, a revolutionary lens for #economics:

ergodicityeconomics.com/2020/02/26/dem…

#wealth #math #inequality
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Avrupa'da Koronavirüs ile mücadelede en büyük başarısızlık: #Liderlik. Silah sanayinde güçlü görünen devletlerin konu halkın sağlığı olunca birer kağıttan kaplan olduklarını ve tek tek döküldüklerine şahit oluyoruz. politico.eu/article/corona…

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There are lessons in history; here is a timely one... How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic on.natgeo.com/2UIEnGH via National Geographic

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"The #coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed", writes Uri Friedman in The Atlantic. Notes Jacinda Ardern "approach has been paired with policies that have produced real, world-leading results." #Covid19 theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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As public transport loses its attractiveness, Italian cities are facing two distinct scenarios. Decisio quantified them: 1️⃣Doing nothing: Rise in car use COSTS €10-20 billion/year. 2️⃣Intervening: Rise in active travel SAVES €9-20 billion/year. bit.ly/2STxgLQ

As public transport loses its attractiveness, Italian cities are facing two distinct scenarios. <a href="/DecisiOnderzoek/">Decisio</a> quantified them:

1️⃣Doing nothing: Rise in car use COSTS €10-20 billion/year.
2️⃣Intervening: Rise in active travel SAVES €9-20 billion/year.

bit.ly/2STxgLQ
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"What an astonishing thing a book is... one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person... Across the millennia,...speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you... Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic."

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On belonging... "Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet."(Astronaut M. Jameson)

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“In the same way as men cannot for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaninglessness in their individual lives, so they cannot for long accept a society in which power, privilege, and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria.”(I. Kristol)

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A conference like no other.......It is not too later to join! International Conference on Transport and Health (ICTH 2021), virtual, June 14-30th. tphlink.com/icth-2021---vi…