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When I asked Renn, who had watched the Louisville project closely, what would be a better way to evaluate how to build a big transportation project, he said he wasn’t sure. “There’s this idea we need to depoliticize questions, that we can reduce political choices to objective decision criteria, when in fact I think many of our debates are driven essentially by rival value systems in our visions of the public good.”
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
After the introduction of speed-limiting technology in 2009, the Ontario Ministry of Transport estimated that at-fault collisions involving large commercial vehicles fell by 73%.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
So, as an elaborate accounting exercise, you can use big data and computing power to produce this estimate, but the result is a factoid that conveys no useful, actionable information—just as we’ve shown with our Cappuccino Congestion Index, which totes up the billions of dollars American’s “lose” waiting in line at coffee shops.
City Observatory - A Reporter’s Guide to Congestion Cost Studies
Texas Transportation Institute and Inrix
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