Transport Truths
Transformation of transport planning to a field that values human experience requires multiple ways of understanding the present and possible future(s). This book shows how to guide transport futures by combining qualitative and qualitative knowledges, illuminating multiple levels of the nature of transport through critical realism.
The book uses engaging case studies to show how timing, methods, and audience of knowledge impacts outcomes, focusing on new case studies of the Banjul Airport Expansion in West Africa, and Interstate 35 development in Austin in North America. Additional studies from around the globe serve as examples of emerging transport methods using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.
This book focuses on "doing.” Many texts cast visions for future utopian or dystopian environments, but this book talks about the methods and skills needed for ethical and valid practice as transportation evolves. In that light, it can be used for classroom pedagogy and for practicing planners and engineers building the transport networks of tomorrow.
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"A Locus of Wicked Problems: (Re)developing Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas" at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Nov. 3-5, 2022
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ScooterLab Publications
A. Maiti, N. Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, M. Jadliwala, R. Wijewickrama and G. Griffin. 2022. "Impact of E-Scooters on Pedestrian Safety: A Field Study Using Pedestrian Crowd-Sensing," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), pp. 799-805, https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops53856.2022.9767450.
Murtuza Jadliwala, Greg Griffin, Anindya Maiti, Raveen Wijewickrama, Jeffrey Jobe, Sushil Prasad (2021). 2021 ScooterLab Workshop: Planning for the Development of a Community Testbed to Support Micromobility Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5544091
Jobe, Jeffrey, and Greg P. Griffin. 2021. “Bike Share Responses to COVID-19.” Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 10 (June). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2021.100353.
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