We Ran a Conference About Rail Modernization (Again)
Modernizing Rail 2021 just happened. Here’s a recording of the Q&A portion (i.e. most) of the keynote, uploaded to YouTube.
As more people send in materials, I’ll upload more. For now, here are the slides I’ve gotten:
- Grecia White’s master’s thesis on gendered perceptions of safety at bus stops.
- Robert Hale’s presentation on New York-New Haven trains, speed, and track maintenance productivity.
- Michael Cornfield’s intro to integrated service planning as done in Central Europe, pitched to Southern California.
- RailPAC’s Paul Dyson’s presentation on Southern California (unfortunately running against Michael Cornfield’s despite the synergy), with supplementary materials by RailPAC’s Brian Yanity including a long article on the subject and two short letters.
- Elif Ensari’s presentation of the Istanbul case for the Transit Costs Project, with full report to be released soon.
A bunch of us tweeted the talks using the hashtag #ModernRail2021, including some that were not recorded.
Pedestrian Observations 
@benshe_ posted links to his presentation in the zoom chat, I believe.
Did you grab a chatlog? Because I only logged chat where I was hosting.
Paul Dyson should have rotated the Switzerland map so that Geneva was on San Diego, Basel near Santa Barbara, Lucerne by Riverside, etc. Would have really brought home how far Southern California has to go, while also providing a vision of what could be.