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#Transit growth outpaces driving growth in Metro #Vancouver
More people in Metro Vancouver are choosing transit over driving as their primary option to get around, according to new data from TransLink. In 2024, there were 7.7 million more trips on transit, an increase of more than three per cent over 2023, o…

"What actually happened was that a minor instability, possibly caused by a solar farm, spiraled into a bigger problem when conventional generators (most of them gas-fired) failed to supply the grid-balancing services they’d been paid for. That in turn caused swaths of power plants to disconnect to protect themselves, similar to what happens in your home when the fuse box trips."
#Spain

Hello all!
I wasn't able to process the photos of my recent trips, but I wanted to share this one from last year.
I went there on a hot day to "take a couple of photos". In the end I spent 3h just at this waterfall searching for the right composition & interpretation, the right motive etc.
I love the result, but I'm surprised how much time I spent there to get it.

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

the hardest 1990s Stereolab album for me to get into is Cobra and Phases Group, and I think it's because "Infinity Girl" and "Op Hop Detonation" sound so much like songs they made previously. it trips me up, like I'm listening to a remix with new lyrics. other than that it's a fine album

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
Helena Fehler, Marco Pruckner, Marie Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13574

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
The transport sector accounts for about 20% of German CO2 emissions, with commuter traffic contributing a significant part. Particularly in rural areas, where public transport is inconvenient to use, private cars are a common choice for commuting and most commuters travel alone in their cars. Consolidation of some of these trips has the potential to decrease CO2 emissions and could be achieved, e.g., by offering ridesharing (commuters with similar origin-destination pairs share a car) or ridepo…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

Nice! Soon I’ll go camping more with my new car bed!
#camping
#nature
#trips

Traffic is very slow. We will be making several trips to a Goodwill type location in the near future.

Combine and conquer: model averaging for out-of-distribution forecasting
Stephane Hess, Sander van Cranenburgh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03693 https://

Combine and conquer: model averaging for out-of-distribution forecasting
Travel behaviour modellers have an increasingly diverse set of models at their disposal, ranging from traditional econometric structures to models from mathematical psychology and data-driven approaches from machine learning. A key question arises as to how well these different models perform in prediction, especially when considering trips of different characteristics from those used in estimation, i.e. out-of-distribution prediction, and whether better predictions can be obtained by combining…

Crossing from Pembroke #Wales to Rosslare #Ireland, I just saw dozens of #puffins flying close to the Ferry.
When we first stayed in #Pembrokeshire in 1998, we happened to stay near Martin's Haven one night and simply got a place on a boat to #Skomer Island when arriving at the harbour. I never again saw so many puffins so close.
When trying to reserve a trip for this summer already very early this year, all trips to Skomer were completely booked and even the wating list filled...
#xp