Blog – Greg Macfarlane

GitHub Training at UDOT

I ran a training teaching UDOT staff and members of related agencies to use GitHub.

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Southeast Asia Study Abroad 2024

In May and June 2024 I worked with James Smith in my department to lead a sophomore-level study abroad to Southeast Asia. We visited the following cities across a 21-day trip:

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Improving Crosswalk Safety in Provo

Recently we have encountered some encouragement from BYU Risk Management & Safety to cross safely. Now, this indicates a few things. First, BYU considers crosswalks…

Haidee Armstrong, Daniel Carr, Maleah Moore, Mark Payne

Java systems and OpenTripPlanner for R

I am using the opentripplanner package, which requires a specific version of Java (1.8, to be precise). This is an older version of Java, and so I have more than one JDK on…

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Covid and Transportation: Student Projects

For their term projects this semester, the students in my Intro to Transportation class wrote blog posts summarizing the effects of COVID on various dimensions of…

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Covid and Highway Operations

This is a post written by the listed student authors as part of their term project for Introduction to Transportation Engineering in Winter 2020.

Can Utah County Choose to Grow Sustainably?

Last week the Deseret News ran a contributed opinion piece by Andrew Skabelund¹ in which he argued that the rapid development of Silicon Slopes in north Utah County comes at…

Transit Safety

I came across this graphic from an APTA Factbook(p. 20) which shows transit with an enormous safety advantage over automobiles. I was curious if I could update the data…

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The Urban Church

Mormons should be paying more attention to downtown cores.

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Last night I read the surprising announcement that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is financing the development and construction of a 32 floor residential…

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