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Tag Archives: transportation
More on Food Truck Regulation
More on the plight of food truck operators in NYC, from the Times: There are numerous (and sometimes conflicting) regulations required by the departments of Health, Sanitation, Transportation and Consumer Affairs. These rules are enforced, with varying consistency, by the New … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, crime, culture, economics, education, food, fun, game theory, how-to, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, political science, politics, rationality, technology, traffic, transportation
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Risk, Overreaction, and Control
How many people died because of the September 11 attacks? The answer depends on what you are trying to measure. The official estimate is around 3,000 deaths as a direct result of hijacked aircraft and at the World Trade Center, … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, books, crime, culture, data, economics, elections, ethical statistics, explanation, foreign policy, history, international relations, nerd, political science, politics, psychology, reading, science, security, statistics, terrorism, traffic, transportation, violence, war
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Reducing the Hidden Costs of Urban Living
USC graduate student Jeremy Fuller put it eloquently when he said, “Traffic really just defines your possibilities at any given time.” When traveling from one side of a large metro area to another in the US, a single individual has very … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, commuting, culture, data, ethical statistics, how-to, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, nerd, politics, rationality, statistics, technology, traffic, traffic circles, traffic lights, traffic signals, transportation, urban politics
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Accidents, Worker Safety, and Coming Due
Over the holidays my dad posed a two-part question after dinner: If a vehicle goes 200,000 miles without a mechanical failure does that mean that it is more likely to have a failure soon? And does the same hold true … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, data, education, nerd, statistical thinking, statistics, technology, transportation, workplace safety
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The Roman Internet
Terence Eden asks why the Romans didn’t invent the internet: What I find interesting is that there was nothing fundamentally to stop the Romans – or any other ancient civilization – from creating such a network. The Greeks experimented with … Continue reading
Taxes, Moonshine, and State Building
I have to admit an ulterior motive behind Friday’s post. We discussed the Alchian-Allen theorem, which states that adding a fixed cost (usually but not necessarily for transportation) to the price of a good leads consumers to purchase more of the high … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, bootleggers and baptists, crime, culture, data, drugs, economics, education, entertainment, history, law enforcement, political science, politics, prohibition, taxes, technology, transportation, violence
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Why Does Manhattan Have the Best Shrimp?
I’ll ask the question in the same form that I originally heard it: “Why does Manhattan have the best shrimp?”* It makes sense why Portland (Maine) or Boston would have great lobster–the shellfish are harvested nearby. But even though shrimping … Continue reading
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The Politics of Train Commuting, Part II
Following on Wednesday’s post, we take another look at the everyday politics of commuter trains. Things get serious when trying to find a seat on the London Overground at rush hour–so much so that Brendan Nelson compares it to war. … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, culture, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, norms, politics, trains, transportation, urban politics
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The Politics of Train Commuting, Part I
My favorite new blog find in a while is that of Brendan Nelson. Like your author here, he admits to “overanalysing mundane topics” but he does me one better–he draws detailed diagrams to accompany his analysis. Today and Friday I … Continue reading
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UN to Decide the Political Future of the Internet
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) got its start in 1869. Back then it was known as the International Telegraph Union. Samuel Morse’s invention was less than 40 years old then, and the modern nation-state was only a couple of decades … Continue reading
