Check out our new paper on “rider-to-rider discriminatory attitudes and ridesharing behavior” in TR Part F! Open access download for 50 days at authors.elsevier.com/c/1YUeH4tTwCcq… JTL: A Mobility Lab

I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the State of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.

Fahrenheit is a good temperature scale for weather and all Nates are in agreement on this.

Uber/Lyft’s business is fundamentally just using VC money to subsidize rides until either (1) self-driving automation becomes viable in cities or (2) public transit declines so much you have no choice but to use them and they can jack up prices

The first peer reviewed journal article from my dissertation research is published. Read about car pride and its impacts on car ownership in two U.S. cities: authors.elsevier.com/c/1Ytkm3Rd3ujw…

We carry 28,000 people per hour through our Transbay Tube under the bay because of the capacity of a train. That’s nearly twice as much as cars over the bay. Why wouldn’t you prioritize something that carries far more (and safely with automatic train control) over cars?

Latest paper on perceptions of AV safety across individuals and countries now published in Safety Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci… ! All model input/output code and statistical information also publicly available on GitHub. Nate Bailey JTL: A Mobility Lab MIT Energy Initiative

New paper looking at transportation policymaking across 287 Chinese cities is now published: doi.org/10.1016/j.trip…. Discusses implications for policy learning across cities with different urbanization and motorization trends. JTL: A Mobility Lab MIT Energy Initiative

Check out the many amazing presentations from researchers at JTL: A Mobility Lab and MIT Transit Lab at next week’s TRB Annual Meeting #TRBAM. Blue highlighted presentations are my own:

News: The California Air Resources Board found that Uber, Lyft, and other rideshares contribute 50 percent more greenhouse gas emission per mile driven than regular passenger car trips. CARB is considering regulations, as transportation emissions in CA continue to rise.

Thread (1/16). How is that our economic statistics suggest workers have been making slow but steady progress in recent decades, while popular perception is that their family finances are coming under increasingly untenable pressure? I've been working on this, here's my answer:

This is the chart I've wanted to see: growth in COVID cases in a metro by prevalence, not time. If you'll indulge me, let me explain why nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I spent a humiliating amount of time learning how to make animated graphs, just to illustrate a fairly obvious point. “Forecasting s-curves is hard” My views on why carefully following daily figures is unlikely to provide insight. constancecrozier.com/2020/04/16/for…

The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement

MIT is the E event champions at the RPI Curling @CurlSchenectady College Bonspiel! #goodcurling to UPenn and all of our other opponents on the weekend. Big thanks to the event coordinators and everyone else for making it a great weekend!

BULLETIN (AP) — Doug Jones, Dem, elected U.S. Senate, Alabama.

Interesting breakdown about the #societal & #personal symbolic #ownership of #ElectricVehicles in #Canada by Prof. Jonn Axsen. Although #Tesla seems to be associated with #Success & #power, owners seem to care less about the #Environment & #SocialResponsibility. #TRBAM TRB

Congratulations USA Team Shuster we did it! John shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner and Joe Polo. Magnificent, I’m so proud of you guys! #Curling #CurlingNightInAmerica #curlingiscoolfool #teamusa #usacurling

Unfortunately we went out with a loss vs. Oklahoma in our last game of College #Curling Nationals. Tight game but things broke just wrong for us. Big thanks to our friends at other schools for making it a great time and to EC Curling Club for hosting! #goodcurling #MoABound