Portland Transport

Category: Bookshelf

  • Behind on my Reading

    A few weeks ago I received an e-mail note about a book called “How to Live Well without Owning a Car.” I picked up a copy at Powells, but it’s still sitting in my ‘to read’ stack. My intent was to write a piece about it when I finished (in my defense, I’m reading another…

  • E-book Promotes Transportation Concept

    Contributor Jerry Schneider is hosting a new e-book on his web site. For those not familiar with the concept, dual-mode is the idea that you drive your car normally on local streets, but that it coordinates with other vehicles in an automated fashion on higher-speed roads. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SIX BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. Here…

  • PDOT Gets Tagged for Lack of Subcontracting

    Yesterday’s O includes an article indicating that PDOT has violated statutes for putting re-paving projects out to bid (possibly making it a net-neutral PR day for PDOT, they also got named best employer by the Women in Transportation Seminar, as noted in the Daily Journal of Commerce). This peaked my interest, because I’m currently reading…

  • Bookshelf: In the Bubble

    A while back, I referenced some interviews with John Thackara, author of In the Bubble. The focus of the book is the importance of design in a world as complex as ours. He has an interesting perspective on the problems of our world, perhaps best illustrated by the chapter titles…

  • Peak Oil? Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita highlighted the vulnerability of the world’s oil supply to disruptions and the resulting price shocks. Link to book at Amazon.com Link to book at Powell’s Link to book at Multnomah County Library List Price: Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy,…