Thanks for this important matter. We were very worried about it.

What are the odds that nytimes is actually less important than everyone thinks?

Proud to be a boilermaker.

An example of infrastructure dependency. Cloud --> Education

Cloud service outage will become part of infrastructure interdependency.
health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

He is also suggesting that congestion matters for the rest as they are not like NYC. It’s beyond the capacity of transportation engineers to make every place like NYC.

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

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retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Be Flood Aware 2017 YouTube video by Upper Guadalupe River Authority

Kerr County was aware of the risk of flash flooding. I wonder why so many people lost lives.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTsJ...

Pre-print doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Strengthening Infrastructure Resilience to Hurricanes by Modeling Transportation and Electric Power Network Interdependencies | Natural Hazards Review | Vol 26, No 3 AbstractCommunity resilience is significantly affected by infrastructure disruptions during hurricanes. Resilience is generally defined as the ability of a system to manage shocks and return to a norm...

Very pleased to share our article on infrastructure interdependency. We showed how interdependency between transportation and electric power networks can complicate power outage restoration. Congrats to my student Tasnuba. Thanks to NSF for supporting this. 🧪 doi.org/10.1061/NHRE...

Don't worry, we will farm Hilsa in Alaska.

New #article from Paul et al: A predictive model for household displacement duration after disasters
TL;DR: influence of property damage and unsanitary conditions and tenure status and income per household member) on displacement outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our new #article with Jaideep Visave: The role of social capital in strengthening community resilience against floods: A case study of Mumbai, India
TL;DR: Trust in neighbors as a predictor of proactive coping , social support, and positive reappraisal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gaurab Chhetri from my lab (ait-lab.vercel.app) developed a dashboard (still demo version) to explore #BlueSky posts related to #TRBAM. A fun tool to see what's trending, check it out! trbam-bluesky-dashboard.vercel.app 🔍📊 #Transportation

If you become successful, I will learn from you how you did that all by yourself with zero education.

The goal of an advanced education program is to efficiently teach people how to ask the right question. If you try yourself to learn how to ask the right question with zero education, you have to design and implement an advanced education program.

Right turns on red puts pedestrians at risk, Mineta study says A 1970s-era federal law requires states to allow right turns on red lights. Mineta Transportation Institute researchers say it’s time to change that.

"Right turn on red movements are generally unsafe for pedestrians, bicyclists,..." the report says. I did not know that RTOR was proposed as an energy conservation measure. A study by @shamstanvir.bsky.social and others.
www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/right-t...

Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

New #article from Alam et al: Assessing Urban–Rural Differences in Disaster Evacuation Vulnerability Among Minority Populations
TL;DR: 61.3 percent of urban minorities and 81.3 percent of rural minorities evacuated at least once in past disasters
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to my student Mobasshir whose paper has been selected as Editor's Choice for ASCE Transportation Engineering Part A journal. Anyone can download the paper until end of Jan 2025. Link of the paper: ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/...

Without looking at transit ridership, the analysis of the effect would be incomplete. The number of car trips can drop, but the number of bus/train trips should increase. Hence, congestion pricing encouraged the switching from personal vehicles to transit.

Will Americans Ever Lose Their Taste for Telework? The pandemic-era rise of remote work has hammered transit ridership and devastated downtowns. A transportation researcher looks at the long-term effects of our new commutes.

Georgia Tech prof Pat Mokhtarian has studied remote work for 40 years. She told me 15% of Americans now telework, triple the share before Covid.

Mokhtarian believes the shift is permanent -- and that it will transform US transportation.

My interview, in CityLab

I don't think they paid a lot of money. Walmart got what it paid for.

Black Saturday bushfires - Wikipedia

The LA fires may last longer than we expect. The Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia lasted more than a month in 2009. It was also a perfect storm event killing 173 people. It was summer in Australia, but this is winter in LA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...

Many are saying this is unprecedented. But we have limited knowledge of perfect storms and Black swan events. Our decision makers should be aware of those events and should use their judgment. We highlighted this ten years ago and a lot of works should be done in this space. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

All the TRB updates in committee and subcommittee meetings could have been a single email to all. Just a thought. #TRBAM

We have 4 posters in today’s 10:15 to 12 poster session in #TRBAM. See the posters if you are around.

Please come see our poster on real-time speed prediction using AI models. #TRBAM