Tipping Points in Public Transport Modal Share?

I was reading through an old post on Peter Parker’s excellent blog about service frequency and its capacity to change travel behaviour; and it got me thinking about the marginal modal share return to increases in service provision. Here, quality is fairly broadly defined - I’m basically looking at a combination of frequency, ease of [...]

more interseting links

I’ve been sent a couple more links to articles that may be of interest. Firstly, it seems that Oyster Card in London has been hacked, and that similar systems based on the same technology may also be vulnerable. Readers will be heartened to know that Myki (if we ever get it) is not on this [...]

The RACV and climate change

I was recently looking through the March edition of Royal Auto (which the RACV still send to me even though I’ve cancelled my roadside membership) and was interested to see that climate change getting a lot of attention in the magazine. I had a bit of a look around on the internet and it seems [...]

All night public transport and road safety

Firstly, apologies for not having updated in the last couple of weeks - I’ve developed a pretty serious West Wing addiction that’s been consuming most of my time.
More importantly, I read on the weekend that restricting first year drivers to carrying one passenger is back on the cards in the form of an RACV submission [...]