Alexa Delbosc

Pedestrians canopy walk and elevated busway over a busy road in Malaysia

Canopy walk with inspiring sign

Bus arriving on the elevated BRT

Is it a freeway? No, it’s a busway! In Sunway KL, Malaysia you can travel above the traffic on the BRT or the pedestrian canopy walk.

Will self-driving Tesla endanger Texas streets? Austin activists staged a demo on Thursday highlighting flaws in the company's "full self-driving" feature:

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Are you an early or mid-career transport researcher in the US who has had your funding cut due to geopolitical pressures? Ready for a change of scenery? Monash University has a dedicated recruitment stream you might want to have look at. Message me for details.
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Also - I spy with my little eye our Lorenz Curve papers, led by me and Monash alumni Katerina Pavkova.

Topics covered by female-led vs non-female led transport geography papers

Pinch me! TWO great papers by all-female authors in one day. This one shows the (lack of) gender diversity in transport geography over time, and the topics more likely to be explored by female-led vs non-female-lead research teams. Diversity matters.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great new paper came across my citation alert: "Elected officials [who are women or] who have personal experience with transportation barriers ... prioritize equity values and the transport needs of equity-deserving groups more frequently." Diversity matters.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Looks like the alternative energy themes of TRB also got the axe. Has there ever been a shake up this significant in the Board’s 105 years?

Not surprised, just disappointed. Equity and environmental justice have been wiped from the new TRB standing committee structure. Subcommittees banned entirely.

Bleak times ahead for @trb.org and #TRBAM.

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Judge Temporarily Blocks White House From Ending Congestion Pricing

"A federal court judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to force New York to end congestion pricing, ensuring the tolling program would remain in place until at least early next month."

Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.

“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”

Deadly by design. And they know it.

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Hit me with success stories of cities that have successfully shifted mode choice from car to active or public transport. London, Paris, Lisbon, Warsaw - any others?

Former Oregonian here and I instantly recognised the view. ❤️

Trigger Warning: Person on an E-Bike Assaulted yesterday morning on the Danforth near Monarch.

We are asking the community to help identify this individual & report to TPS. Please be vigilant out there, stay safe & look out for each other. 1/3

Australian canned coffee costs $4.20 but in Japan it’s only about $1.50.

I’m happy that Monash vending machines sell Coffee Boss but I sure enjoyed them better in Japan where they cost about $1.50.

Full size engines!

Stained glass windows about trains!

Demonstration of train signalling!

Model railway!

The Railway Museum in Saitama is amazing. Everything from full sized engines, to a model railway, to art, to hands exhibits on railway jobs and science. Highly recommend.

We almost went to Shibuya looking for it! Thankfully we double checked.

3D cat billboard in Shinjuku does not disappoint

Older woman on a bike

Younger woman on a bike with a kid seat

Younger man on a folding bike

Woman on a bike with a kid seat

So many different types of bicycles in Japan - fat tyre, folding, electric, and a lot with kid seats on the back. Young and old, women and men.

Bikes, bikes everywhere in Kyoto!

Rainy Japanese street

Japanese footpath

Japanese street

Paid bicycle parking

In Japan on a holiday so please enjoy these photos of people on bikes. They seem to ride wherever - on the street, on the footpath - and cars are so slow (max 40kph most streets) it works ok. Cycling not everywhere, but some places so popular there is paid secure parking.

I find it's similar to the Netherlands - when there's more of a culture of ped/bicycle mixing, it all kind of works, but is confronting if you're not used to mixing with bicycles. I swear there's a 'sixth sense' you develop to look out for bikes.

And a special thank-you to Prof Elisabetta Cherchi for putting up with my endless queries, and to the reviewers who stepped up when so many refused. It took 12 months to get the first set of reviewers on board, and nearly 2 years to get to this day! (5/5)

Can curbside bicycle lanes buffer COVID-19 ridership losses? A case study from Melbourne, Australia Many cities implemented temporary or permanent improvements in safe cycling infrastructure during COVID-19 in a bid to encourage cycling. However, man…

In our latest publication in TR-A, we used multi-level generalized linear modelling to isolate the impact of upgrades at four sites in Melbourne, relative to non- or not-yet-upgraded sites. The upgrades had a measurable impact! How much? Read on to find out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How can we measure the impact of these upgrades when a) the long-term cycling counters were placed by a different authority entirely and b) so many other things changed during COVID? The answer is: it's very tricky to do! (3/5)

Bicycle counter locations and infrastructure upgrades during 2020-21

Satellite photos of painted bike lanes before upgrades, and an 'after' image of the bike lane moved between the parked cars and the sidewalk/footpath.

But at the same time, the City of Melbourne was upgrading bicycle infrastructure to encourage sustainable, socially-distanced travel into the city. Most upgrades were modest - changing a painted lane to a kerbside lane. (2/5)

A graph showing the long-term counts for bicycles in Melbourne from 2019 to 2022

Story time! You probably know that cycling rates fluctuated dramatically during COVID. Melbourne saw massive decreases due to 264 total days under lock-down. (1/5)

Spam email asking me to submit a paper to 'Dermatology Research: SkinInsights'

Well that's a new one.

There is recovery - in some locations - on some days - you'll have to read more when the paper comes out!

Reviewing the proofs of a new paper (coming soon!) and it pains me to remember that in Melbourne we were under COVID lockdown for 264 days. Some of the changes to how we travel are still being felt today. Stay tuned to find out more!

Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122

Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.