How traffic engineering standards can break our cities
Many of you will know me as just a facetious blogger who spouts off about random things from time to time. This is indeed true.
What is also true, however, is that in a previous life I worked as a transport engineer.…
The Infernal Combustion Engine
Statistics NZ have been publishing yearbooks since 1893 which they say provide “a comprehensive statistical picture of life in New Zealand”. If you’re prepared to but a bit of effort in going through them you can some superb historical data so they are a really valuable resource – although going through them is made much easier by them having been digitised and therefore allowing people to use the browser search function.…
Trends in Car Fuel Efficiency
This is an update of a (guest) post I did in December 2012 – I’m planning to keep updating it each year.
These days, most people are aware (often painfully so) of petrol prices being over $2 a litre, and much higher than they were a decade ago.…