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Janes Walk Vienna Grinzing
I'm leading a walking tour from Cobenzl to Grinzing on May 2, 2014, as part of the worldwide Jane's Walk weekend. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. Her book The Death and...
Lucerne Switzerland
I visited Lucerne Switzerland in March. Lucerne is about 45-minutes by train from Zurich and it's a wonderful day trip with several excellent museums and a very nice historic old city to walk around. I visited one of my favourite transport museums, the Verkehrshaus...
Tel Aviv Yafo
I visited Tel Aviv Yafo as part of my work reviewing the CIVITAS 2move2 project in late March. I'd never been to Israel before and it was very interesting and nice. The weather was fantastic, sunny and about 20 degrees for our whole visit. The goal of CIVITAS is for...
Tel-o-fun Bike Share Tel Aviv Yafo
We had a great time riding around Tel Aviv on the city's Tel-o-fun shared bike system. Here I am riding on one of the city's green corridors.
London – Transport and Beer – March 2014
The Urban Data from Fetish Object to Social Object conference in London (see previous post) was fantastic, lots of great ideas discussed by people doing really neat things with social data. Sjors Timmer did a nice post about the conference. I enjoyed my trip to...
LSECities – Urban data conference – March 2014
I'll be participating as a discussant at a conference organised by Adam Greenfield at the London School of Economics on Friday March 14. Read more about the speakers and programs on the LSECities announcement or on Adam Greenfield's blog post. It should be a...
San Francisco – February 2014
Just returned from a nice visit to San Francisco ... great weather and lots of interesting meetings. The photo above is of Yerba Buena Gardens looking towards the SF MOMA which is currently being expanded/remodelled. Around the corner from the photo above I ran across...
Brussels – Les Super Filles du Tram
How could I not eat at a place with the word "tram" in the name when I visit Brussels? Les Super Filles du Tram is a busy restaurant near Place Flagey in Brussels. Their speciality is hamburgers. I've been twice (so far) and both times it was very good. The staff are...
Vienna – Glacis Beisl
The Glacis Beisl is one of my favorite restaurants in Vienna. Located in the MuseumsQuartier, it's a very comfortable place with a great garden in the summertime. The room is large and comfortable. It's no smoking (inside) and the noise levels are fairly low. They...
Washington DC – TRB 2014
The 2014 TRB Annual Meeting was busy and fun - as usual. I was co-author of two papers: Using Online Games in Transport: Grr-Grr-Bike Case Study (Paper 14-3805), with co-authors Peter Purgathofer and Fares Kayali from the TU Wien; and A proposed methodology for...
Vienna – 1500 Foodmakers
On New Years Day we tried the restaurant 1500 Foodmakers located in the 25 Hours Hotel in Vienna. We reserved and found the sign in the photo waiting for us on a nice table. The restaurant is very comfortable. Tables are big and well spaced. The music is good, you can...
Antwerp – December 2013
I visited Antwerp in December as part of a business trip to Brussels. Antwerp is only about a half-hour from Brussels Airport and there are about two trips per hour from the Brussels Airport train station. The main purpose of my trip was to visit the Museum aan de...