Help Us Continue to Grow Transit Tangents By Becoming a Member on Patreon 🙌: www.patreon.com/TransitTangents Let us know what you thought of this episode! What else do you want to know about transportation in regards to schools? Big thanks to AISD who even hinted that they would be willing to do follow-ups in the future! If you have thoughts, questions or ideas, let us know and we can make it the subject of a future episode.
school buses are just a very very small portion of commercial and passenger traffic and thus the market for electric school buses will probably remain very high and thus not really affordable. I will also add that some school buses run off of gasoline and not diesel. One of the largest overheads of school buses is fuel. As for the EV market, most of that is with the passenger vehicle market but that market can only grow so much as it is having an impact on the electric grid. Interestingly the growing EV market is continuing to drive the price of gas downwards as the petroleum industry has to meet the needs of the diesel market which runs heavy equipment, agricultural equipment, trucks, RVs,, motorcoaches and city buses as well as marine, the shipping industries (ships and trains) and most military equipment. So my question for a future episode is highspeed rail. It would be awesome if they would build a highspeed line from Austin to Houston. It would be a game changer for Austin.
Apart from having nothing to do with him I think he was very clear about his priorities, which is to safely bring the kids to school and other activities. He was all for transit and working to reduce emissions but he's also very realistic and will use what he can have now, not in the future. Right now traffic is bad and even though the i35 project is not the solution that's what Austin has and, at least for the short run, it will bring some improvement.
Lol- I almost interrupted him, but to @thejttv's point I know it's not really his place to even really comment on it, so I didn't say anything... In hindsight could have added a note in the edit. We have talked quite a bit about induced demand on the show before, etc.... Thanks for watching!
@TransitTangents I thought it was admirable that you didn't say anything. Most your viewers I assume understand this fallacy. It might have been good to address it in a wrap up though
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Let us know what you thought of this episode! What else do you want to know about transportation in regards to schools? Big thanks to AISD who even hinted that they would be willing to do follow-ups in the future! If you have thoughts, questions or ideas, let us know and we can make it the subject of a future episode.
Please consider doing a video gentle density and economy’s of density
You keep surprising me with topics and the ways you bring them, which is hard in the very dense TH-cam realm of Urbanism.
Thanks for the kind words 🙌 This was an interesting one! Thankful that AISD was willing to be a part of it!
school buses are just a very very small portion of commercial and passenger traffic and thus the market for electric school buses will probably remain very high and thus not really affordable. I will also add that some school buses run off of gasoline and not diesel. One of the largest overheads of school buses is fuel. As for the EV market, most of that is with the passenger vehicle market but that market can only grow so much as it is having an impact on the electric grid. Interestingly the growing EV market is continuing to drive the price of gas downwards as the petroleum industry has to meet the needs of the diesel market which runs heavy equipment, agricultural equipment, trucks, RVs,, motorcoaches and city buses as well as marine, the shipping industries (ships and trains) and most military equipment. So my question for a future episode is highspeed rail. It would be awesome if they would build a highspeed line from Austin to Houston. It would be a game changer for Austin.
I feel like there was some restraint to not correct the bus driver when he said that austin is on the verge of fixing traffic
Not his domain. Not worth fighting
Apart from having nothing to do with him I think he was very clear about his priorities, which is to safely bring the kids to school and other activities. He was all for transit and working to reduce emissions but he's also very realistic and will use what he can have now, not in the future. Right now traffic is bad and even though the i35 project is not the solution that's what Austin has and, at least for the short run, it will bring some improvement.
Lol- I almost interrupted him, but to @thejttv's point I know it's not really his place to even really comment on it, so I didn't say anything...
In hindsight could have added a note in the edit. We have talked quite a bit about induced demand on the show before, etc....
Thanks for watching!
@TransitTangents I thought it was admirable that you didn't say anything. Most your viewers I assume understand this fallacy. It might have been good to address it in a wrap up though