Tag Archives: transportation

White Paper: The Political Causes of Split Highway Numbers and the Consequences of Primary, Secondary, and Split Road Labels

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Highway numbering is often assumed to be a neutral technical exercise, but in practice it is a deeply political process. Split numbers—instances where a single route number is assigned to two or more discontinuous or parallel branches—arise from … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Data-Driven Strategies for Improving Customer Attitude and Enthusiasm in Airlines and Transportation Companies

Posted on November 24, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Airlines and other transportation companies face a recurring challenge: customers often approach travel with negative expectations—anticipating delays, discomfort, friction, and systemic unpredictability. Improving customer attitude and enthusiasm is not merely an exercise in soft skills; it is a … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Check Engine Light Problem — Causes, Implications, and Paths Toward Vehicle Literacy and Systemic Reform

Posted on November 4, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across North America and much of the industrialized world, the “check engine” light has become a near-universal sight on dashboards. Surveys and anecdotal evidence suggest that a significant proportion of vehicles on the road operate with this warning … Continue reading →

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White Paper — Understanding the Pattern of Failed Stall Tests in the Hawker 900XP / Hawker Series Business Jets and Mitigations to Reduce Fatal Risk

Posted on October 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Intended audience: Business-jet operators, maintenance organisations, test-flight crews, aviation safety regulators, manufacturers. Scope: This white paper reviews the recurring pattern of stall test failures in Hawker-series business jets (particularly post-maintenance stall test flights), analyses causal factors, and proposes remedies to … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Fluid Dynamics as a Unifying Framework: Linking Traffic Flow and Blood Pressure Regulation

Posted on September 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper explores the deep conceptual and mathematical connections between fluid dynamics, traffic flow, and cardiovascular physiology. While traffic jams and hypertension may seem like unrelated problems, both are governed by similar principles of flow, resistance, and pressure gradients. … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Tying Federal Funding of Public Transportation to Safety Performance

Posted on September 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Proposal. Linking a portion of federal transit funding to safety benchmarks would create incentives for agencies to reduce violent crime on buses, subways, and light rail. Benchmarks. A comparative look at violent incidents per 1 million unlinked passenger … Continue reading →

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No Substitutes

Posted on August 24, 2023 by nathanalbright

Car culture has been complained about almost since its beginning, but just like the horse revolutionized society through the mobility it provided, so too the car has brought similar changes to the behavior of people, and especially among those who … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Trains, Buses, People

Posted on August 2, 2023 by nathanalbright

Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas Of US Transit, by Christof Spieler It is not hard to figure out what sort of opinions the author has even before reading this book, and I must admit that while I was disappointed … Continue reading →

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Thieves Of The Blue Coast

Posted on June 25, 2023 by nathanalbright

What are the things that make me mad? I found myself to be particularly upset today during a stressful experience where another incompetent taxi driver sabotaged the plans of my mother and I to get to a boat trip around … Continue reading →

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Knock Three Times

Posted on June 23, 2023 by nathanalbright

So far, at least, TAP Airlines has stated that its serious political problems over the course of the last few months have not affected its operations. Political kickbacks that included an overly generous severance package sparked a massive political firestorm … Continue reading →

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