“Sage Musings”: Occasional blogs (by myself among others) about research, graduate school, the academic profession, etc. My blogs include:
Read Widely, Think Deeply: https://medium.com/zephyrfoundation/sage-musings-volume-1-issue-3-eaad151d0f3d
Pat’s Dos and Don’ts When Applying to Grad School: https://medium.com/zephyrfoundation/sage-musings-volume-1-issue-2-8351a29de38
Left Brain, Right Brain: https://medium.com/zephyrfoundation/sage-musings-volume-1-issue-1-47f0841b947b
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Generating Buzz: Remote Work in a Post-Pandemic World. Georgia Tech podcast, March 29, 2024
https://news.gatech.edu/features/2024/03/generating-buzz-remote-work-post-pandemic-world
Outside article by Gloria Liu, March 12, 2024: Colorado’s I-70 Has America’s Most Notorious Ski Traffic. Is there a Solution?
https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/i-70-traffic/
New York Times article by Lydia DePillis, Emma Goldberg, and Ella Koeze, Nov. 6, 2023: Most Americans still have to commute every day. Here’s how that experience has changed.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/06/business/economy/commuting-change-covid.html
Medical News Today article by Robby Berman, January 10, 2023: People who travel report better health, study finds.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/people-who-travel-report-better-health-study-finds
InfoWise blog by Erik Skindrud, June 20, 2022: Bay Area Planners Bet Big on Remote Work to Slash Traffic, CO2 — Who’s Taking the Baton Now?
New York Times article by Emily Badger, June 11, 2021: A Little More Remote Work Could Change Rush Hour a Lot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/upshot/rush-hour-remote-work.html
The Atlantic article by Jerry Useem, June 9, 2021: The Psychological Benefits of Commuting to Work. (I am one of the two unnamed “researchers at UC Davis” in 2001)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/admit-it-you-miss-your-commute/619007/
Slate article by David Zipper, April 7, 2021: What if Working at Home Makes Us Drive More, Not Less? A surprising, very real possibility for our post-pandemic lives
https://slate.com/business/2021/04/post-pandemic-commutes-cars-driving-more.html
The Chat Lab — 1/2-hour interview on travel behavior and mobility trends
Scientific American article by Ainslie Cruickshank, July 22, 2020
Webinar, Eno Center for Transportation, May 14, 2020: “The Adoption and Travel Impacts of Teleworking: Will it be Different This Time?”
“Working at home: A radical coronavirus experiment”, by Joshua Emerson Smith
“Bicycle Commuters Experience Joy but Motorists Would Much Rather Teleport”, by Carlton Reid: Forbes article on the use of (hypothetical) teleportation to gauge people’s enjoyment of travel for its own sake
“Late, As Always”: Boston Globe article on commute congestion
Podcast on the Intersection of Technology and Mobility with MBA students from Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, October 1, 2019:
Ability to multitask has a “small but not trivial” effect on whether people take transit
Uncommon Engineers: Travel Behavior podcast with Pat Mokhtarian
https://podcast.coe.gatech.edu/podcasts/uncommon-engineer/travel-behavior-pat-mokhtarian
It’s Not All Fun and Games: An Investigation of the Reported Benefits and Disadvantages of Conducting Activities while Commuting
https://ucdcoe.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/be202c08051c4bfab340fe394628b54c1d
What Does the Rise of Telecommuting Mean for Traffic and Transit?
Will millennials transform future transportation? Maybe not as much as we thought
http://ce.gatech.edu/news/will-millennials-transform-future-transportation-maybe-not-much-we-thought
When Target comes to town: How a big-box retailer changed Davis, Calif.:
http://ce.gatech.edu/news/when-target-comes-town-how-big-box-retailer-changed-davis-calif
Atlantic/CityLab blog on teleportation:
8th Annual Martin Wachs Lecture:
Two Freakonomics blogs:
http://freakonomics.com/2010/11/23/should-we-hope-congestion-gets-worse/
http://freakonomics.com/2010/12/08/do-we-travel-to-get-there-or-get-there-to-travel/