by Esteban Doyle | Aug 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
For this post I have decided to spend time talking about everyone’s favorite part of traveling, traffic! Congestion is never fun. Planners and engineers work constantly to try to mitigate it. Interestingly, supporters of light rail advocate for rail as a means...
by Esteban Doyle | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
A huge part of any research comes down to modeling. You explore a bunch of variables and you try to see which ones are important predictors to the outcome you care about. In transportation, modeling is extremely important for planners and leaders who are the decision...
by Esteban Doyle | Aug 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
If I have learned one thing this summer, it’s that having a clean-cut way to evaluate anything is impossible. There are so many factors to consider. It’s also very easy to become separated from the context of your research subject. Public transit is not an...
by Esteban Doyle | Aug 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m getting down to the last few weeks of my research project. So far, I’ve been looking at countless measures of performance and service efficiency. However, looking at all these individual measures can be meaningless unless you have a way to compare...
by Esteban Doyle | Jul 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Efficiency – every engineer’s favorite word. It’s perhaps the most important criterion to differentiate good engineering designs from bad ones. How is efficiency measured in transit systems? One metric often used is the cost per vehicle revenue mile....
