Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle, bicycling, bikes and red lights, cycling, France, Idaho stop, red lights, traffic law, transportation, urban cycling
France gets all reasonable about bicycles and red lights.
The newly relaxed rules of the road for cyclists is now being tested across 15 intersections in Paris, though with it bike-commuters aren’t given full liberty to blow through crossing points unreasonably. Law will continue to require that cyclists yield to pedestrians and opposing traffic, though that’s quite likely consistant with the standards of etiquette and personal safety most cyclists abide to anyways.
via France Grants Cyclists the Right to Run Red Lights : TreeHugger.
Maybe now American advocacy groups will get behind the idea. They haven’t in the past. But they seem to love anything remotely Euro-flavored, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this caused a noticeable uptick in Idaho Stop-related chatter around here.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: High speed rail, Michigan, passenger trains, trains, transportation
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2012 Benchmarking report, active commuting, Alliance for Biking and Walking, Alliance for Free Love and Puppies, Alliance for Toasted Cream Cheese Sandwiches With Meat, Alliance for Walking and Biking, bicycle commuting, bicycling, mode share, transportation, travel
…workers bike-commutes in the American South, according to the Alliance for Biking and Walking. Their 2012 Benchmarking Report based on US Census numbers.
I see that as potential. Lots of it. Just like people (people who generally haven’t thought much about the future of liquid fuels) look at China and see potential for a new dawn of the motoring dream. Bicycle-commuting only has one way to go in much of the US. It’s primarily a cultural thing.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: demand, EIA, energy, gas consumption, gasoline, oil demand, peak oil, recession, This Week in Petroleum, transportation
From EIA’s This Week in Petroleum.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: frac, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, Marcellus Shale, New York, transportation, truck traffic
From http://www.un-naturalgas.org/NYSDOT%20Transportation%20Impacts%20Paper.pdf
Per well:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Econbrowser, energy, gas tax, gasoline tax, Holland, James Hamilton, Knittel, petrol taxes, transportation
Via Econbrowser, writing about Knittel’s new paper.
Filed under: maps | Tags: bicycle, bicycling advocacy, bike, cycling infrastructure, Jefferson County, pedestrian, recreation, transportation
That’s Jeffco, Colorado, comprising the western suburbs of Denver. There are a lot of Jeffco’s around.
click for pdf
They are seeking comments here: http://www.jeffco.us/bike-plan
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, energy, light vehicle sales, SAAR, transportation
13.5 something or other. Slight decrease from November. From Calculated Risk…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: consumption, driving, energy, energy consumption, transportation, Vmt, young drivers
Thought update: Decline in teen driving could very well be the big reason behind the decline in road fatalities in the US, which has gone begging for a proper explanation. As the average US driver ages, the driving population also becomes much safer — just like the cycling population. (Very old drivers are probably more likely than teen drivers to crash, however.)
http://ur.umich.edu/1112/Dec05_11/2933-fewer-young-but
But there are more fogies on the roads.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: 1971, Amtrak, Gregor McDonald, Obama, passenger rail, rail, railway map, transport, transportation
Via Gregor McDonald’s blog, showing massive loss of inter-urban lines from ’62 to ’71. Gregor calls on Obama to support passenger rail.
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Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: exports, James Hamilton, petroleum, pipelines, product pipelines, Suncor, transport, transportation, United States
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The blue lines are product pipelines. Greens are oil and reds are gas.
From this James Hamilton post on the petroleum product net export situation.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2001, 2009, commuting, National Household Travel Survey, time in vehicles, transportation, Vmt
From the 2009 National Household Travel Survey.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Natural gas, net energy, pipelines, transportation
From the EIA.
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipelines_map.html
click to enlarge
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cargo ship speed, international trade, Sail Transport Network, shipping, transport, transportation
Is this true?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: car life cycle, carbon balance, carbon dioxide, CO2, global warming, transportation
The European Cyclists’ Federation just put out a study on CO2 emissions and the possible savings that might come from additional cycling in the EU.
QUANTIFYING CYCLING’S CO2 SAVINGS (pdf)
[just one of several interesting graphics from this report]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cycling, efficiency, energy, kilocalories, mpg, transportation
Murphy gives about the same figures I came up with for Cyclist’s Manifesto. —-> 1000 mpg for cycling.
by Tom Murphy
A Solar-Powered Car? | Do the Math.
..or as the British say, the “maths.”
Here’s the short version: Just get a bike.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bill Story, Nevada, planning, transportation
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 