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Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

One of the things about long road trips is the need for housekeeping. Day six was spent in Ceduna, getting laundry done, restocking the pantry, sweeping out the van and filling gas bottles. Ceduna has a good bakery and a pub on the foreshore. #RoadTrip

From Motifs to L\'evy Flights: Modeling Urban Mobility in Bogot\'a's Public Transport System
Juan F. Alay\'on-Mart\'inez, Alejandro P. Riascos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02621

From Motifs to Lévy Flights: Modeling Urban Mobility in Bogotá's Public Transport System
In this paper, we study two years of access card validation records from Bogotá's multimodal public transport system, comprising over 2.3 billion trips across bus rapid transit, feeder buses, dual-service buses, and an aerial cable network. By reconstructing user trajectories as motifs, we identify recurrent mobility patterns that extend beyond simple round trips, enabling the construction of an integrated origin-destination (OD) matrix covering 2,828 urban zones. Similarity analysis using the…

Uber reports Q2 revene up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% YoY to $46.8B, trips up 18% YoY to 3.3B, income up 82% YoY to $1.5B, and a $20B share buyback (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/66434380-8a79-41e0-9f3e-8485d9241345

Recovering Individual-Level Activity Sequences from Location-Based Service Data Using a Novel Transformer-Based Model
Weiyu Luo, Chenfeng Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02734 …

Recovering Individual-Level Activity Sequences from Location-Based Service Data Using a Novel Transformer-Based Model
Location-Based Service (LBS) data provides critical insights into human mobility, yet its sparsity often yields incomplete trip and activity sequences, making accurate inferences about trips and activities difficult. We raise a research problem: Can we use activity sequences derived from high-quality LBS data to recover incomplete activity sequences at the individual level? This study proposes a new solution, the Variable Selection Network-fused Insertion Transformer (VSNIT), integrating the In…

And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.
We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels

As much as this scratches the cool itch (and I wish I had a laptop that had a usb-c power-in connection), I can't keep from thinking we're all eventually going to be like Tony Stark in that cave (pre-mark1 suit) lugging that car battery around.
https://fed.brid.g…

SlashByte (@slashbyte.bsky.social)
Featuring a 24,000mAh capacity and 140W max fast charging, keep your devices powered during long trips or heavy use with the Anker 737 Power Bank. Buy it now: amzn.to/4m7dh80 #Tech #Android #Apple #Technology #Travel #News #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

This is so funny for me. For decades, New Buffalo was a name on a sign, the first exit off I-94 entering #Michigan on the many trips from Chicago & St. Louis to Onekama & Empire… Notably lacking in anything worth stopping for. Back then...

A small vacation resort area in Michigan is one of the top markets for marijuana sales
A tiny township in Michigan, best known as a vacation resort area, has become one of the top markets for marijuana sales. And it now has a new nickname: New Puffalo.

✈️ Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
#agriculture

Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
Canadian-grown wheat, canola and peas have some of the lowest carbon footprints in the world—so low that, in some cases, they could be shipped to Europe 17 times before matching the emissions of the same crops grown there.

"What’s clear is that when we share music — whether at backyard barbecues, holiday gatherings, or road trips with the radio blaring — we’re doing something deeply meaningful. Our brains are literally synchronizing, creating shared neural patterns across generations and differences. In those moments when everyone finds themselves humming the same chorus or tapping to the same beat, we’re experiencing one of life’s simplest yet most profound connections."
When Your Favorite Song Plays, Your Brain 'Physically Embodies' Music
https://studyfinds.org/brain-cells-synchronize-to-music/

Canada's Girl Guides Suspend U.S. Trips Amid Trump's Immigration Crackdown (Jonathan Wolfe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/canada/girl-guides-canada-us-trips-trump-border.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250808/p56#a250808p56

Circle the Continental Divide, Wyoming

The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…

8 scenic road trips to explore America this summer
Volcanoes, lakes and oceans await for those willing to take a scenic U.S. road trip.

Uber launches prepaid passes, letting customers pay a discounted price in advance on frequently taken trips, in bundles of 5, 10, 15, or 20 rides (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782765/uber-prepaid-pass-bundle-discount-route…

Uber launches prepaid passes for frequent routes
Uber announced prepaid passes for frequently made trips, when purchased in bulk.

I really regret not taking more train trips when I was younger.
https://www.thefp.com/p/chris-rufo-why-my-sons-and-i-take-the-train?r=1iyjsn

Chris Rufo: Why My Sons and I Take the Train
Chris Rufo took his sons on a 35-hour train ride down the West Coast, where they met ex–Wall Street bankers, addicts, dreamers, and drifters—and saw a different side of America.

Leverage real-time traffic data to estimate accurate driving durations, factoring in congestion or roadworks for reliable planning.
⛽ Fuel Stop Recommendations
Combine routing with gas station locations to suggest nearby or cost-effective refueling options based on distance and fuel prices.
🚗 Plan Car Trips
Create detailed itineraries with multi-stop routes, including breaks, attractions, and estimated arrival times, tailored to weather and terrain data.
⚡ Find EV…

Got rid of fish. Back to bash. fish is too smart, tries too hard, trips me up with weird suggestions.

Identifying the Multimodal Hierarchy of Public Transit Systems Using Trip Chain Data
Junhee Lee, Seungmo Kang, Jinwoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24220 https://

Identifying the Multimodal Hierarchy of Public Transit Systems Using Trip Chain Data
As urban mobility integrates traditional and emerging modes, public transit systems are becoming increasingly complex. Some modes complement each other, while others compete, influencing users' multimodal itineraries. To provide a clear, high-level understanding of these interactions, we introduce the concept of a macroscopic multimodal hierarchy. In this framework, trips follow an "ascending-descending" order, starting and ending with lower hierarchical modes (e.g., walking) that offer high ac…

Did I spend 90 minutes today adding random trips to my @… account? Perhaps.
Will I get a cool #rail coverage map tomorrow? I surely hope so!
But this one is cool too.

I’ve decided it’s manditory to listen to Tom Waits on all cross country train trips. Thank you for your attention on this matter.
#tomwaits
#music

The Warp Drive: Superluminal Travel within General Relativity
Osvaldo L. Santos-Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20348 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20348…

The Warp Drive: Superluminal Travel within General Relativity
In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre proposed that the well-known special relativistic limitation that particles cannot travel with velocities higher than light speed can be bypassed when such trips are considered globally within specific general relativistic frameworks, using a warped region of spacetime in the shape of a bubble that transports particles with mass traveling through spacetime with superluminal speed. Although initial results indicated this scenario as nonphysical, since it would seem to …

Rebalancing Modular Transit Systems: A Hierarchical Graph-Based Optimization Framework for Fleet Sizing and Routing
Tina Radvand, Alireza Talebpour, Yanfeng Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18643

Rebalancing Modular Transit Systems: A Hierarchical Graph-Based Optimization Framework for Fleet Sizing and Routing
This study addresses the rebalancing of empty modular transit pods between scheduled service trips in fixed-route bus systems. A two-stage hierarchical optimization framework is proposed. The first stage determines the minimum fleet size and initial vehicle assignments by solving a maximum matching problem on a bipartite graph, using a GPU-accelerated push-relabel algorithm. The second stage formulates detailed routing as a series of minimum-cost flow problems on time-space networks. To manage …

#NowPlaying Matt Robinson took several trips to the west coast of Scotland earlier this year. This is something between a music video and a kind of abstract documentary, about the sounds made by the steel buoys at Portencross with music by Richard Youngs.

Build it and they will come.
In spring 2024, 11% of trips in Paris were made by bicycle and 4.2% by car. In 2010, the cycling share was just 3%.
This year, records have been broken on a monthly basis at many cycle counters. Existing cycle paths are becoming congested and need to be widened.
From: @…

Welp we had a weekend of #HeritageOpenDays trips planned but that was before my uncle was sent home from hosp with weeks to live and we made an almost impromptu flying visit to Devon to see him, and the weather decided to throw a wobbly this weekend and make travel and building appreciating pretty unappealing, so we're both knackered from yday's trip and a day behind on stuff plus…

Good Morning #Canada
Normally, I'm posting about history or geography or trivia, but the July tourism numbers are dominating the news. We "Nasty" Canadians are choosing not to visit the USA, and trips across the border continue to drop month after month. At the end of 2024, U.S. tourism revenue from Canadians was projected to increase 16%. Surprise! Losses by USA businesses are already estimated to be in excess of $20B USD, and some states are bracing for government cuts due to a decrease in sales taxes.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/08/11/canadian-car-visits-us-plunge-37-percent/

Meine letzte Entdeckung auf #Bandcamp: https://trafmusic.bandcamp.com/
Gleich alles gekauft.
Das war meine Einstiegsdroge:

TRAF
TRAF is the story of two guys from Reims who share the same passion for music, medicine, road trips and extreme outdoor sports. In 2018, they create TRAF, an electro-organic music project tainted with Alps and Mediterranean inspirations.

Behind the Blog: Debriefing on Two Trips https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-deb/

For electric vehicle drivers: Locate charging points along routes, with estimates for charging times and range to avoid range anxiety.
🌤️ Weather-Based Route Adjustments
Retrieve real-time weather data to reroute around rain or snow, ensuring safer and more efficient drives.
🏔️ Terrain-Optimized Adventures
Plan off-road or hiking trips with elevation profiles and campground data to identify suitable paths for rugged vehicles.
💨 Air Quality-Driven Routing

To reach Strączno, I change trains in Poznań — in the direction of Kołobrzeg, and in Piła — bound for Szczecin.
My last trips:
1. Szczecin train canceled.
2. Piła train delayed 15 minutes. Szczecin waited for us, but not enough time remained to run my planned route.
3. Szczecin train canceled.
4. Piła train delayed 30 minutes. Szczecin waited for somebody…
5. Finally on time — and it's raining. Not that rain's going to stop me.

ALNS for Tugboat Scheduling in Inland Waterway
Zihang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19718…

ALNS for Tugboat Scheduling in Inland Waterway
This paper focuses on the barges shipping problem, also known as the tugboats scheduling problem, within the context of a scenario where a single tugboat has the capacity to tow multiple barges and conduct multiple trips in a drop-and-pull mode during a daily work shift. The problem is mathematically formalized as mixed-integer programming models. To tackle real-world-sized problem instances, an adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) algorithm integrated with a decoding mathematical model is…

Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling of passenger trip assignment in metro networks
Xiaoxu Chen, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Zhenliang Ma, Lijun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22403 https…

Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling of passenger trip assignment in metro networks
Assigning passenger trips to specific network paths using automatic fare collection (AFC) data is a fundamental application in urban transit analysis. The task is a difficult inverse problem: the only available information consists of each passenger's total travel time and their origin and destination, while individual passenger path choices and dynamic network costs are unobservable, and behavior varies significantly across space and time. We propose a novel Bayesian hierarchical model to reso…

Urn Modeling of Random Graphs Across Granularity Scales: A Framework for Origin-Destination Human Mobility Networks
Fabio Vanni, David Lambert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18544 h…

Urn Modeling of Random Graphs Across Granularity Scales: A Framework for Origin-Destination Human Mobility Networks
We model human mobility as a combinatorial allocation process, treating trips as distinguishable balls assigned to location-bins and generating origin-destination (OD) networks. From this analogy, we construct a unified three-scale framework, enumerative, probabilistic, and continuum graphon ensembles, and prove a renormalization theorem showing that, in the large sparse regime, these representations converge to a universal mixed-Poisson law. The framework yields compact formulas for key mobili…

Network-accelerated Active Messages
Md Ashfaqur Rahaman (University of Utah), Alireza Sanaee (University of Cambridge), Todd Thornley (University of Utah), Sebastiano Miano (Politecnico di Milano), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano,Queen Mary University of London), Brent E. Stephens (Google,University of Utah), Ryan Stutsman (University of Utah)
https://

Network-accelerated Active Messages
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) improves host networking performance by eliminating software and server CPU involvement. However, RDMA has a limited set of operations, is difficult to program, and often requires multiple round trips to perform simple application operations. Programmable SmartNICs provide a different means to offload work from host CPUs to a NIC. This leaves applications with the complex choice of embedding logic as RPC handlers at servers, using RDMA's limited interface to a…

Rich Vehicle Routing Problem with diverse Vertices allowing Hierarchical and Multimodal Time-Dependant Transhipment of multiple Node- Vehicle- compatible Cargo with Cascaded Time-Minimization Objective for Emergency Decision Support Systems
Santanu Banerjee, Goutam Sen, Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13227

Rich Vehicle Routing Problem with diverse Vertices allowing Hierarchical and Multimodal Time-Dependant Transhipment of multiple Node- Vehicle- compatible Cargo with Cascaded Time-Minimization Objective for Emergency Decision Support Systems
A rich vehicle routing problem is considered allowing multiple trips of heterogeneous vehicles stationed at distributed vehicle depots spread across diverse geographies having access to different modes of transportation. The problem arises from the real world requirement of optimizing the disaster response/preparedness time and minimizes the route duration of the vehicles to achieve the solution with the minimum highest-vehicle-route-duration. Multiple diversely-functional vertices are consider…

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Joseph Rodriguez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Jinhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08231

Deploying Robust Decision Support Systems for Transit Headway Control: Rider Impacts, Human Factors and Recommendations for Scalability
Service reliability is critical to transit service delivery. This paper describes headway control pilots conducted in two high-ridership Chicago bus routes between 2022 and 2023. A decision support system was developed for a bus holding strategy based on a reinforcement learning approach. For the pilots, a user interface enabled supervisors to monitor service and record applied actions. The first pilot tested terminal-based holding on a route affected by missed trips from absenteeism. The analy…