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Jarrett Walker Rail - Volution 2018
Jarrett Walker was a keynote speaker at the 2018 Rail~Volution transit and community development conference in Pittsburgh, PA. In this video (with slides), he draws on geometry and biology to show why buses and trains are essential for the future of cities. He also demonstrates why transit access is important to the freedoms we all hold dear.
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Jarrett Walker: Planning Transit: Can We Live Without Predictions?
Transportation planning seems, at times, to be all about prediction. Consultants vie to do the best models. Journalists do gotcha stories about whether predictions were right. Competing predictions confuse local elected officials and activists. Jarrett Walker explores how much prediction we really need, and how our longing to know the future may interfere with our ability to have clear conversations. While the focus here in on transit, the insights may be useful to people in all aspects of planning.
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Learning the Language of Transit
In “the Language of Transit”, Jarrett Walker explores the binary structures that trap our thinking about transit, including “rail vs bus,” “permanent vs flexible,” “choice rider vs dependent rider”. He argues that many of the apparent debates in transit arise from these binary structures that we bring to it, not the facts of transit itself. He also explores how an approach to transit based on access and liberation requires us to rethink our assumptions about what transit infrastructure “means” in the urban environment.