Source: The social cost of road crashes and injuries | Ministry of Transport.
@TransportBlog @JulieAnneGenter @GarethMP a lot safe to ride a bike in New Zealand since 1970
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: bicycles, road safety
Annual social cost of road crashes in New Zealand, 1997-2014
07 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics
Less extreme overloading than this is common in the rural Philippines
02 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, transport economics
HT: Julian Weeks
The cycling community is rather intolerant of criticism @JKruppster
01 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in administration, transport economics
My blog post on bicycles must go at night attracted a fair degree of personal abuse from the cycling sub-reddit. Another local economist is going where angels fear to tread.
Bring back @RusselNorman to save the planet from @NZGreens MPs carbon footprint @DBSeymour
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: carbon footprint, carbon offsets, Left-wing hypocrisy, New Zealand Greens, rational irrationality
Living the clean, green lifestyle means more than just buying carbon-offs in the same way that indulgences for sins were sold by the mediaeval Catholic Church. Russell Norman was an MP for 9 of the 12 months covered by this chart. He consistently had one of the smallest carbon footprints of a Green MP even when he was still co-leader of the Greens and not just a backbench MP.
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Members’ expense disclosure from 1 October to 31 December 2015.
New Zealand MP travel expenses 1 October – 31 December 2015 @DBSeymour
28 Feb 2016 1 Comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: carbon footprint, New Zealand Greens, rational irrationality
10 of the 14 green MPs have above-average air travel expenses – have an above average carbon footprint for a member of the New Zealand Parliament. It is not easy to be Green.
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Members’ expense disclosure from 1 October to 31 December 2015.
@NZGreens MPs travel expenses in the 3 months to 31 December 2015 @dbseymour @JordNZ
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: Green Left, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, New Zealand Greens, rational irrationality
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Members’ expense disclosure from 1 October to 31 December 2015.
Source: New Zealand Parliament – Members’ expense disclosure from 1 October to 31 December 2015.
Time-starved skilled workers may be driving gentrification
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics, urban economics
Bicyclists do not like evidence-based road safety policy
15 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in administration, economics of regulation, transport economics
Bicyclists get very upset when they are told about the dangers. They immediately resort to personal abuse about my post arguing that bicycles at night should be banned.
This anger is another reason why bikes must go. Bicyclists are surly people who respond aggressively when they should do more reserved and careful.
How often does the human driver take over a self-driving car?
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, technological progress, transport economics
Matthew E. Kahn’s Keynote Address for 3rd Urbanization and Poverty Reduction World Bank Conference
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in climate change, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate change adaptation, Matthew Kahn
Matthew Kahn on urban climate change adaptation @RusselNorman @JulieAnneGetner
10 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate adaptation
If you do not follow this guy’s blog, there is a serious gap in your education in urban and environmental economics especially with regard to climate change.
If you love nature, stay away from it – Ed Glaeser
09 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics
It is hard to imagine any merchant who harmed the environment as much as Henry David Thoreau…
We are a destructive species, and if you love nature, stay away from it. The best means of protecting the environment is to live in the heart of a city.
Ed Glaeser
Source: If you love nature, move to the city – The Boston Globe.
Gender commuting gap for workers who travel to and from home to work
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: commuting times, reverse gender gap
I lived in Japan so that 60% extra time the Japanese men spend travelling to and from work in those cramped trains is not to be underrated.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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