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Flashback: Episode 542: Measuring Transp...

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This week we're away at a conference, but we're flashing back to episode 542 where we're joined once again by professor Karel Martens. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at measuring only one problem and ignoring others and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems.

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A scale for describing people's mobility status - Findings Press

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