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- • Tube map of human body subsystems (VisualCapitalist)
- • Edinburgh car ban plans for greatness (Herald)
- • Speed limiters for all new European cars in 3 years (Evo)
- • Cheaper, greener French high-speed trains (CityLab)
- • Seattle congestion pricing wouldn’t price out poor (Crosscut)
- • Oregon bill would increase density near transit (StreetsBlog)
- • The space, time and transport planning continuum (TransportFutures)
- • ‘Green’ Duke University obstructing LRT line (Streetsblog)
- • A day in the life of Americans (FlowingData)
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Competition on high speed lines may be “completely new” for SNCF in France, but not in Italy.
Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (in which SNCF has a 20% holding) has been running very effectively in competition with Tren Italia since 2012. More at https://www.seat61.com/italo.htm.
Any sort of passenger competition on rail in France will be completely new. Although SNCF competes widely elsewhere, they have kept others out of France. That is to change, but it remains to be seen what obstacles get put in the way of newcomers.
That article about speed limiters in cars really came out of nowhere (at least for me); I had no idea this was being planned.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
If the speed limiters are like the one on my car, an over-ride is essential as it has a habit of spotting speed limit signs on slip roads and re-setting itself to them, even though I’m using the main line. GPS has its limits as well – there are a number of double-deck roads or mainline/service road combinations where the resolution of GPS is inadequate to spot which road you are on.
That said, I wouldn’t be without the limiter – it means I can concentrate on the road ahead and let the electronics look after my licence.
The Transport Efficiency post is worth the study.
Reminds me of trying to study fluid-flow in hopefully non-chaotic situations ( i.e. Not turbulent flow )