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.

Kate Lowe (she/hers)@kateontransport.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New, open access: How transport journals weed out qualitative research and why it matters. Klein, Linovski, Smart & I examine challenges to publishing qual research and how they limit understandings of critical transportation issues with potential implications for practice and policy. rdcu.be/flsWz

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:

Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government

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. We ar…

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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.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 10mo ago

Good morning! Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources. The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies.

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)

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 10mo ago

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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?”

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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...

'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

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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.

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 11mo ago

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

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...

Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes

For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.

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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.

Verkehrsinformationszentrale Berlin@vizberlin.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Auf dem neuen Streckenabschnitt der #A100 in Richtung Treptow hat sich ein #Stau gebildet. Da es in einem Tunnel zu keinem Verkehrsstillstand kommen darf, wurde die Autobahn Richtung Treptow ab AD Neukölln #gesperrt.

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...

The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught

The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...

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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/

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“SEPTA’s massive cuts are here and it’s ‘bad on so many levels’” — www.inquirer.com/transportati...

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...

Cars Are So Expensive That Buyers Need Seven-Year Loans

They make monthly payments manageable but add thousands to the car’s total cost.

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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!

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: With #2030Census prep already underway, President Trump says he's instructed Commerce Dept to "immediately begin work" on a "new" census that excludes people living in the states without legal status from a count the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state”

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/...

Cornell Expected to Reach Settlement with Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding

Cornell University is expected to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that has been revoked over the last several

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Not surprising but depressing nonetheless

Cornell Reportedly Nears Up to $100 Million Settlement With Trump Admin to Restore Frozen Federal Funding

Cornell is reportedly in talks with the Trump administration to soon close on a settlement to pay up to $100 million to restore its frozen federal funding.

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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/...