Just your normal Tuesday
Good day my good friend.
A big thank you to those of you who expressed your interest in testing the new version of the Future Mobility Scenario Game. I will be in touch with you! In the meantime, if you want to help test it, and add a bit of depth to your strategy and policy development, simply respond via email!
To the news.
James
Fare evasion – its about knowing who and where
Some new research from Santiago in Chile has done something that I rarely see – create a model of where fare evasion is likely to take place. Based upon surveys undertaken on board public transport and observations of fare evaders, a model was built to identify routes and areas where fare evasion is likely to take place.
It is notoriously hard to capture data on fare evasion. Profiling is very questionable, and only a few cases ever reach the criminal justice system. There is much research on the impact of different enforcement regimes and automatic ticket collection. But relatively little on the economics of detection. Perhaps when discussing what improvements in revenue generation could be made, reducing fare evasion could figure?
Do new forms of data influence transport and health outcomes? Someone is putting in the theoretical groundwork
Causal Loop Diagram. System Dynamics. It was like this research article was begging to be included in newsletter! The researchers undertook a Delphi survey to identify how different forms of data can interact with other factors to change transport and health behaviours. The result of which can only be visualised. And so here it is.
Random things
These links are meant to make you think about the things that affect our world in transport, and not just think about transport itself. I hope they do just that.
UN report: The world’s farms stretched to ‘a breaking point’ (Yale Climate Connections)
Discrimination by the numbers (MIT Technology Review)
How Partnerships Can Lead to Emergency Rental Assistance Program Success (Urban Wire)
The Unequal Impact of the Energy Bill Crisis (New Economics Foundation)
Something interesting
If you do nothing else today, then do this
During my work I came across this excellent example of publishing monitoring reports on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods by Lambeth Council. Its clean, simple, and above all accessible. Look at it, then do this.
Mobility Matters 