The secret behind chemtrails?
24 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories
GM’s 1956 vision of a self drive car by 1976
22 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: creative destruction, self drive cars
How planes evolved
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in technological progress, transport economics Tags: aviation, creative destruction, innovation
Someone figured out that planes evolve like birds… and made charts about it! My favorite! sciencecodex.com/law_of_physics… http://t.co/NxqgWtXjZ2—
Tyler Vigen (@TylerVigen) July 23, 2014
Thinking time and stopping distances on wet roads
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: road safety
Would you stop in time? Think about your speed & stopping distance when driving on wet roads. #slowdownCBR http://t.co/XJ6ei1xyEt—
(@ACTPol_Traffic) June 18, 2015
New York Times, April 16, 1912, after the Titanic disaster
19 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: Titanic
The front page of The New York Times of April 16, 1912, after the Titanic disaster http://t.co/w3229clSr9—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) January 26, 2014
1,800 mass transit systems in the US — 2% report fare revenues exceeding operating expenses
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, transport economics Tags: buses, green rent seeking, public transport, public transport deficits, trains
Of the 1,800+ US mass transit systems ~2% reported that fare revenue exceeded operating costs bit.ly/1EoQyqD http://t.co/Q6t9pB7q8a—
The Hamilton Project (@hamiltonproj) May 14, 2015
Driving a car is a lot safer now
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: road safety
CHART: US Traffic Fatality Rate Fell to Record Low in 2014, 85% Lower than 1950s, 'Golden Age of the Middle Class' http://t.co/43uvU3UAyr—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 06, 2015
Why so many bicycles in Germany?
18 May 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: bicycle, Germany
Own a bike
Jordan 5%
Egypt 18%
Turkey 26%
Russia 42%
UK 50%
US 53%
India 62%
Germany 80%pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015… http://t.co/XRd5V8lY2o—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) May 15, 2015
The robots are coming, the robots are coming to property values
16 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, technological progress, transport economics, urban economics Tags: agglomeration, compensating differentials, creative destruction, driverless cars, drones, entrepreneurial alertness, land prices, land supply
A few years ago, Casey Mulligan wrote a fascinating little op-ed about the impact of drones on land prices and urban living.
As drones and driverless cars make it cheaper to move people around cities, the value of inner-city land will fall simply because their proximity to the action has diminished.
With drones and driverless cars, it will be easier to bring something in on the just-in-time basis rather than have it on hand as inventory or within walking distance because traffic congestion makes it too slow to call it up from the suburbs through the conventional commercial transport.
But we live in a world of trade-offs. More people may want to move into the city because it’s so much easier to move around and call things up by drone, driverless car and the share economy, so this may intensify agglomeration effects and increased land prices. Another big day out for the two handed economist.
Non-price competition is intense under government-sponsored cartels
08 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: airline regulation, cartels
1970’s Continental Airlines in-flight piano bar http://t.co/cNd6Re3W6P—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) March 29, 2015
Alone in space
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
Orbiting all alone out in space. http://t.co/x7YkO1FCLw—
Beautiful Pictures (@BEAUTIFULPlCS) April 25, 2015
Map of British Government’s travel advice
24 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in transport economics, war and peace Tags: maps
Map showing the British Government's travel advice http://t.co/MRJX6oLv7b—
Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) April 23, 2015
An ode to the anti-vaccination movement
23 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, transport economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, seat belts
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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