TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS QUESTION USE OF COMMON PRACTICES & METRICS
In an op-ed for this months ITE Journal (<a href="http://bit.ly/1yUOu8l">http://bit.ly/1yUOu8l</a>), Jason DeGray, a licensed engineer and a member of the groups advocacy committee... argues that conventional approaches to engineering, developed over years of outward suburban growth, are particularly biased toward motorized road users--most noticeably in urban areas.
A feature article in the ITE Journals August 2014 issue, titled Decisions, Values, and Data: Understanding Bias in Transportation Performance Measures (<a href="http://bit.ly/1CeAI1D">http://bit.ly/1CeAI1D</a>), gives an example of one such metric--level of service--explains precisely how it reflects values and biases inherent to transportation design... [<a href="http://bit.ly/1c5G4WK">http://bit.ly/1c5G4WK</a>]
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