Talking Headways Podcast: The Life of Your Transportation Data

This week, we’re at the Three Revolutions conference in Davis, Calif. chatting with Warren Logan of San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Mollie Pelon McArdle of SharedStreets.io, and Regina Clewlow of Populus. We chat about all things data: how it’s used, privacy issues, the correct geography to collect it, regulations and much much more.

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

Mapping the Link Between Geography and Opportunity

By Angie Schmitt |
They call it “spatial mismatch” — when people are separated from job opportunities by long commutes, poor transit connections, or other geographic obstacles. How places contribute to, or thwart, economic opportunity is an increasingly hot topic, but still not entirely understood. Today, Data Haven’s Data Blog explains how the Regional Plan Association’s recently released jobs access map uses newly available […]

Getting Over the Privacy Hurdle to Mileage-Based Road Fees

By Liisa Ecola |
Liisa Ecola is a senior project associate at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. It’s time to explore mileage-based user fees. For nearly a century, Americans have largely paid for roads through gas taxes – taxes which governments can’t or won’t raise. Even if they could, more and more cars no longer run […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Carbon Emissions at Street Level

By Jeff Wood |
Dr. Kevin Gurney is a carbon cycle scientist at Arizona State University. I recently came across an article in Nature about his work measuring carbon emissions from mobile sources at street level, and I wanted to find out more. On the podcast, I asked Dr. Gurney why cities are important to climate change, and why political boundaries make […]

Securing Traffic Crash Data Isn’t a Violation of Privacy

By Angie Schmitt |
Most cars these days are equipped with an “event data recorder,” or EDR — a device that tracks information like vehicle speed and brake activation, which engineers can use to fine tune safety features. They can also be used to determine fault in a collision. While that capability is not widely deployed yet, EDRs could be […]