How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.
Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.
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April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
May 8, 2013
New York State Association of
Transportation Engineers
Rochester, NY
August 18, 2013
BoingBoing.com “Ingenuity” Conference
San Francisco, CA
September 26, 2013
TransComm 2013
(Meeting of American Association
of State Highway and Transportation
Officials’ Subcommittee on Transportation
Communications.
Grand Rapids MI
- We’re All Corsicans Now
- The Nazca Lines of the Twentieth Century
- The Ride on Chicago
- Routemaster
- Visible Enforcement
- The Brain-Sucking Tendency of Left Turns
- A Short History of Traffic Engineering
- America’s Unlikely Hub of Bike Sharing
- The Single Most Important Item in the Global Economy
- You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
- Whatever Happened to Walking?
- About That Moment of Silence…
- Can Parking Lots Be Great?
- The Ride on Washington
- System/Empathy in Transit
- 2CarGarage
- 8 Feet Up (Dale the Truck Driver)
- A Look at Traffic
- Alan Pisarski
- America Walks
- Anthony Downs
- Ben Hamilton-Baillie
- Bern Grush
- Best Driver in the World
- Bikeportland.org
- Bill Beaty’s “Traffic Waves”
- Bristol Traffic
- Cognitive Daily
- Colin Ellard
- CTC (U.K. National Cyclists’ Organisation)
- Dan Hill
- Daniel Simons
- David Engwicht
- David Hembrow
- David Metz (The Limits to Travel)
- Dirk Helbing
- Discovering Urbanism
- Donald Shoup
- Dr. Driving
- DriveSmartBC (British Columbia)
- Dutch in Dublin
- Eric Morris
- Freakonomics
- Freewheelin’ (Chris T. and Meredith Ochs)
- Geoff Manaugh
- Getting from Here to There
- Global Road Safety Partnership
- Good Magazine (Mobility Section)
- Gordon Price
- Greater Greater Washington
- Greater Greater Washington
- Hub and Spokes
- Human Transit
- Iain Couzin
- Ian Walker
- Illusion Sciences
- Institute for Road Traffic Education
- James Surowiecki
- Jan Gehl
- Joe Hallinan (Why We Make Mistakes)
- Joe Moran
- John Adams
- John Groeger
- John Tierney
- Jonah Lehrer
- L.A. Can’t Drive
- Leonard Evans
- Livable Streets
- Living Streets
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Nawrot
- Mark Young (Human Centered Design)
- Martin Cassini
- Matthew Yglesias
- Michael Paine
- Michael Schreckenberg
- Michael Wallwork
- Mike on Traffic
- Nancy McGuckin
- National Center for Biking and Walking
- Pedestrianist
- Phil Patton
- Platewire.com
- Quickrelease.tv
- Reinventing Urban Transport
- Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge Blog
- Ryan Avent
- Sam “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz
- Sasha on the Street
- Sebastian Thrun
- Stephen Rees
- Streetsblog
- Sustainable World Transportation
- Tales From the Road: A Traffic Cop’s Stories
- The Avenue (The New Republic)
- The Invisible Gorilla
- The Melbourne Urbanist
- The Transportationist
- Thomas Frank
- Tim Falconer
- Traffic Safety Culture Blog
- Trajectoires Fluides
- Transportation Alternatives
- Transportation Research 101
- Urban Tick
- Velo Bus Driver
- War on the Motorist
- Weeels (Car sharing app)
- Where the Sidewalk Starts
- Where the Sidewalk Starts
- AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
- Autosnelwegen (Dutch Motorway History)
- Cambridge Systematics
- Car Talk Driver Distraction Center
- Carectomy
- Cool Connections (Fehr & Peers)
- Copenhagen Cycle Chic
- Crosstown Traffic (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Cyburbia
- Dr. Gridlock (Washington Post)
- Drive Talk
- Driver’s Ed Guru
- Eurorap
- Fatality Analysis Report System
- Getting Around (Chicago Tribune)
- Getting There
- Guardian Travel and Transport Column
- Hands Free Info
- Hard Drive (Portland Oregonian)
- Human Performance Laboratory (U-Mass Amherst)
- Institute of Advanced Motorists
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
- Los Angeles Times ‘Bottleneck Blog’
- Matt Helms’ Driving Today
- Mobilizing the Region
- National Journal Transportation Expert Blog
- Ohio State University Traffic Monitoring Laboratory
- Parking Today’s Blog
- Partnership for Safe Driving
- Rest Area History
- Road Worrier
- Roadguy
- Roadshow (San Jose Mercury News)
- Roundabouts USA
- Safe Road Maps
- Safe Road Maps
- Shifting Gears
- shitedrivers.com
- Talking Traffic
- The City Fix (World Resources Institute)
- The Fast Lane
- The Infrastructure Show
- The Infrastructure Show
- The Infrastructurist
- The ITE “Crash Clock”
- The MPG Illusion
- The Ride (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Thinking Highways
- Traffic Technology Today
- Trafficcalming.org
- Transport Research Labatory
- Transportation Research Board
- transportgooru.com
- Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
- UC-Berkeley Traffic Safety Center
- Up to Speed
- Wayne Gerdes (hypermiling)
- Bicycles (59)
- Book News (52)
- Cars (193)
- Cities (159)
- Commuting (64)
- Congestion (114)
- Cyclists (35)
- Drivers (136)
- Energy (14)
- Environmental factors (8)
- Etc. (290)
- Gas prices (6)
- Motorcycles (4)
- Parking (41)
- Pedestrians (69)
- Risk (73)
- Roads (93)
- Ten Things You Should Know (4)
- The Accidental Journalist (11)
- Things I Didn't Know (10)
- Traffic Culture (191)
- Traffic Enforcement (54)
- Traffic Engineering (124)
- Traffic Gadgets (17)
- Traffic History (13)
- Traffic Laws (21)
- Traffic Psychology (64)
- Traffic Reports (7)
- Traffic safety (193)
- Traffic safety films (25)
- Traffic Signals (15)
- Traffic Signs (38)
- Traffic Wonkery (61)
- Trucks (6)
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