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The ‘b’s’ Knees: Logistic Stage-Transition Rules as Percentile Conventions on a Standardised Time Scale

Recently published:

  • Levinson, D. (2026) The ‘b’s’ Knees: Logistic Stage-Transition Rules as Percentile Conventions on a Standardised Time Scale. Findings, June 1, 2026. [doi] [Data/code]

Logistic diffusion is often described as...

8 days ago

Transportist: June 2026

Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers. As always you can follow me on Mastodon, BlueSky, or RSS.

I have also uploaded a lot of our shareable code and data to Github recently, you might follow that....

9 days ago
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User-organized pre-pooled ride-hailing: exploring a new mode

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  • Hao, W., Fang, Y., and Levinson, D. (2026) User-organized pre-pooled ride-hailing: exploring a new mode. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Volume 157, August 2026, 105422 [doi]

User-org...

14 days ago

Missed Opportunities: Using Access to Assess Alternative Historical Urban Rail Networks

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  • MILLS, S., LEVINSON, D. (2026) Missed Opportunities: Using Access to Assess Alternative Historical Urban Rail Networks. Case Studies on Transport Policy [doi]

In this paper, we use Sydney as a case study to re...

15 days ago

STREET: Simulation Transport for Realistic Engineering Education and Training

STREET, short for Simulating Transportation for Realistic Engineering Education and Training, is a set of web-based simulation modules built to improve teaching in undergraduate units that cover travel demand modelling, geometric design, tr...

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