Nick Klein

@njklein.bsky.social

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Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University.

We conclude with the assertion that the primary goal of transportation research, stripped to its essentials, is the discovery of knowledge that will help improve lives. Many of our interviewees reported that they feel hindered by methodological gatekeeping in transportation studies. This, we contend, limits that primary goal of knowledge discovery in pursuit of betterment. Not every transportation researcher needs to achieve mastery in every research method, but all would benefit from a broader understanding of methodological strengths and weaknesses. A systematic bias against one method of discovery may leave some questions never conceptualized. It does a disservice to the entire field, including practicing transportation professionals, and ultimately to all of us as travelers.
Chart showing the share of transport journals articles that use qual methods from 2000-2022. Percentages range from 1 to 4%.
Screenshot of title page & abstract.
Book cover - Overbuilt by Erick Guerra
"I'm fearful that even the most low-level political speech or just doing what we all do - like shout into the abyss that is social media — can turn into this dystopian nightmare where somebody is calling you a terrorist sympathizer and making you, literally, fear for your life and your safety," Ms. Srinivasan said in the interview on Friday.
She’s described as family chauffeur, shopper, caretaker, and arm candy. The ad copy does not give her an identity beyond her domestic role, a point I think is further emphasized by representing her as a static, two-dimensional, duplicable paper doll. There’s so much to say about this ad that I think also applies to the Kathryn Haun commercial. The paper woman’s domestic roles are portrayed as tabbed outfits in the same way that Kathryn’s are shown through outfit changes. Despite it being an ad for a vehicle, the woman—as a literal paper doll—has no mobility. Kathryn is not quite as inert as cardboard, but she doesn’t drive or otherwise put her car in motion. Although the activities described and the correction from “home” to “Ford” all suggest mobility, the very nature of the activities tie her to that home. Similarly, the Pacifica Reveal commercial, in the later script, repeatedly makes the same point—“your home away from home,” “all the comforts of home even when you are miles from yours,” etc. Some things change, but some stay the same!
Reflections on gender, mobility, and sustainability by The Susan Hanson
Screenshot of title page for Giulio Mattioli & Joachim Scheiner article "A panel analysis of change in personal air travel behaviour in England between 2012 and 2019"
Me with an I Voted sticker
Screenshot of article title and abstract. citation is Blumenberg, Evelyn, Samuel Speroni, Fariba Siddiq, and Jacob L. Wasserman. 2024. “Putting Automobile Debt on the Map: Race and the Geography of Automobile Debt in California.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 190 (December):104230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2024.104230.
Screenshot of title and abstract for Brown 2024 preprint "Driving to opporuntity"
Reyes NT, Headworth S. Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans. Law & Social Inquiry. Published online 2024:1-29. doi:10.1017/lsi.2024.2
Screenshot of title page of the following article: Hazelton-Boyle, Josephine K., and Gerard C. Wellman. 2022. “Transit Stigma: Transit Administrators’ Views of the Role of Policy Elites in Perpetuating Stigma.” Public Works Management & Policy 27 (3): 252–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087724X221088859.
Screenshot of first page for article by Shahrzad Enderle, “‘Everything Is Different Here…’: The Effects of Mismatched Mobility Cultures and Differential Capacities on the Urban Vélomobility Practices of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women in Germany" - published in Travel Behaviour and Society 2024
Excerpt from NYMag article
Screenshot of article - citation is Gössling, Stefan. “Celebrities, Air Travel, and Social Norms.” Annals of Tourism Research 79 (November 1, 2019): 102775.
Schlepping kids to school on a sled
Small three wheeled ev
Screenshot of title page for Facing a time crunch: Time poverty and travel behaviour in Canada
Screenshot of article. Citation below Millard-Ball, Adam, and Purva Kapshikar. 2023. “How Land Use Patterns Keep Driving Cheap: Geographic Support for Transportation Taxes.” Urban Studies 00420980231207487. doi: 10.1177/00420980231207487.
Screenshot of title page and abstract for article - the citation is: “Can Subsidized Carshare Programs Enhance Access for Low-Income Travelers?” Paul, Julene, Miriam Pinski, Madeline Brozen, and Evelyn Blumenberg - published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.