Welcome to The Weekly Journey - your two-minute journey through the world of mobility and beyond. Use it to stay informed, find a new go-to source, or just have a peek inside how we think. Brought to you by the team at Journey.
A few interesting things. 🧠
🏘️ ETOD in Austin: The Eno Center for Transportation profiles Austin’s ongoing implementation of a robust equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) strategy. Journey staff have supported CapMetro and their partners to develop and execute this strategy and are excited to see new ETOD projects in the pipeline.
🅿️ Parking: The UCLA Center for Parking Policy published a must-read report on car parking construction costs across 17 major cities in the United States.
🅿️ More Parking: A team at MIT developed an approach for including the time to search for and access car parking into trip planning travel time estimates.
🚇 Transit Innovation: The MIT Technology Review had a great in-depth profile of three alumni leading innovative efforts at the MBTA to enhance various aspects of agency operations.
🚶♀️➡️ Walking: Another team at MIT created the first comprehensive model of walking activity throughout New York City. Tons of great insights - including: “41 percent of trips city-wide are made on foot, compared to just 28 percent by vehicle.”
The job board. 💪
Lots of great opportunities at Illinois Department of Transportation, mostly in the Bureau of Research. More info here.
Upcoming events. 📅
At this month’s ACT TDM for Events Monthly Roundtable, Avital Shavit of LA Metro and Ruth Miller of Jawnt will share the latest practices for transit ticketing technology for stadiums and megaevents. They’ll be joined by special guest LJ Nassivera, Vice President - Transportation Strategies for the New York Mets.
Join the conversation on Wednesday, March 25 at 1-2 EDT. Free for ACT members.
Lauren hosts the Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club. On Wednesday, April 1 at 2 PM EDT, the book club will host Bern Grush and Andrew Miller, Ph.D. to discuss their book, The End of Driving. The book explores the profound social, policy, and planning questions surrounding automated vehicles, from privately owned self-driving cars to shared robotaxi networks. Will be a great discussion to join, whether or not you have read the book. Attending this book club meeting qualifies for 2 TDM-CP credits.
Not an ACT member but curious? Reach out to Journey as we often can offer a couple of comp entries to our partners.
Lauren co-hosts the Chicago City Builders Book Club with our friends at Arup. In April, the book club is wrapping up their deep dive into the Chicago classic, Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon. Join them on Wednesday, April 15 at 6 PM.