Anson Stewart
@ansoncfit
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Analysis + Research @conveyal | Deputy Director @MITTransitLab | Transportation PhD 🚲🚌 https://t.co/7wJfNlfetE on the blue site
Joined January 2014
Actually, now @ https://t.co/UUzsPGt4c6 over there. Domain as custom handle 👍👍 (and thanks to @kateontransport for the invite!)
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Signed up for Twitter for #TranspoCamp 2014. Heading over to to the cerulean space (ansons there) for #TCNE2023
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In Philadelphia, SEPTA now offers college students a dirt-cheap "all-you-can-ride" transit pass --but only if their school buys one for ALL students. Swarthmore is the first to sign on. It's a model more colleges (& transit agencies) should consider. 🧵⬇️ https://t.co/gK3Yq9v8uG
bloomberg.com
Programs that offer unlimited bus and train rides for those enrolled in colleges and universities can breed a new generation of transit fans.
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New research! We developed multiple approaches to infer mobility of care and women's travel on transit using fare card data: “Can Mobility of Care Be Identified from Transit Fare Card Data? A Case Study in Washington D.C.” https://t.co/DZROcdEKh6.
findingspress.org
By Daniela Shuman, Awad Abdelhalim & 5 more. We propose a data-driven framework to identify mobility of care from transit smart fare card transactions and find disproportionately more mobility of...
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Painful headways. Even after cutting schedules for July, @MBTA still claims this bus comes every 15 minutes or less.
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Chaser for the afternoon commute https://t.co/JoIOF2Zbt9
Shuttle buses replace Red Line service between Harvard and Park St due to Fire Department activity at Kendall/MIT. Please expect delays as shuttles are dispatched.
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Why have a bus every 10 minutes when you can have 3 buses every 35 minutes? 🙃 #busbunching
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Access to opportunities can be tough to define. @ansoncfit sheds light on measures to do so next time you're selecting a project. Join us at June's TRB Innovations in Travel Analysis and Planning Conference in Indianapolis. Register today! #TRBplanning
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"Some of our discomfort arises from not wanting to, or knowing how to, process seeing that our society is persistently failing people. Transit is the site of this discomfort because it is one of the remaining truly shared public spaces in our society." https://t.co/mchK13TJIU
laurelintransit.com
This post builds off David Zipper’s article “How to save America’s public transit system from a doom spiral”. Yes, I know I missed the two-day lifecycle of stories on the internet, but I was busy. …
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"A lot of the transit safety conversation is actually about the discomfort and fear that comes from being in proximity to people whose actions we cannot control or always predict. To ride public transit is to come face to face with a wide cross section of society."
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This. "My biggest risk as a transit rider comes from crossing the street to get to the bus stop, not other riders. Transportation advocates need our narratives to match the real risks so we can get the policy attention on the right things."
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Join us Thursday at 5:30pm with local universities, nonprofits, community leaders, designers, and more to learn about and find a team for our Design Grants program. Are you an activist, organizer, data analyst, storyteller, or artist? Share your expertise!
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We're proud to announce MetROW, the watery transit option for those who don't mind rowing the boat. Our Metro Coxswains are here to help you huff, puff and get where you're going. 🎣 allowed. Eat 🐟 with extreme caution. #April 1
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Made a few maps illustrating the impact of transit frequency on non-work access to destinations in the Sacramento area.
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Forced and mandatory parking minimums are contributing to our housing and climate crisis. Outdated parking standards need major reform in downtown cores and along impacted rail and transit lines. We are working on a major federal bill to address this challenge.
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@CALFIRE_TUU personnel in cooperation with @USACESacramento, @OCFireAuthority and @TulareCoFire created a debris collection system at Lake Success today. This system uses a chain of booms to act as a barrier for large objects in the water that could cause blockages downstream.
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