Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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Electric Flight Taking Off Again at TVF 22
The Vertical Flight Society was back in San Jose in 2022 bigger and better than ever with more than 50 technical paper presentations and 50+ invited talks, plus 20 exhibitors. The hybrid nature of the online/in-person Transformative Vertical Flight 2022 meeting allowed speakers and attendees to join remotely from around the world. The above interview with…
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Orchestrating Multiple Transportation Modes in Boring Places and Familiar Streets, Paths, & Sidewalks
Transportation and communications networks are really one and the same. Instead of transporting invisible bits like telecom, mobility networks have to carry bottoms and boxes. Another parallel between these two types of networks is the need for orchestration to manage the different types of traffic and, potentially, different service providers.1 In the above interview, Bern…
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ITNCountry and ISPs – A Conversation about Better Mobility & Building Community for Rural America
“Around 40% of rural counties in the U.S. have no public transit services whatsoever,” according to Michael Sena in his January 2022 newsletter, the Dispatcher.1 Affordable mobility is a huge challenge, particularly for seniors and it is even a bigger challenge for seniors living in rural areas. In the above conversation, Katherine Freund explains how…
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Moving Forward with Trenton MOVES
Dr. Alain Kornhauser’s vision of bringing equitable, sustainable, and affordable mobility to the people of Trenton took another step forward with the February 9th, 2022 announcement (Facebook) of a $5 million NJDOT Local Transportation Planning Fund Grant for the Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicles Equity System (MOVES) Project (PDF). The significance of this event goes…
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An Eyewitness View of the LVCC Loop – #CES2022
One of the CES2022 highlights was under the show floor. The LVCC Loop made its CES debut quietly hauling attendees between the West and Central Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. With speeds of up to 40 MPH, it takes approximately two minutes to cover the 1/2 mile journey between the West and Central…
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Get Paid to Ride #CES2022
Through its back-end software, Israeli-based Enroute enables local retailers to deliver a shopping experience within a mobility service (e.g. rideshare, bus, train, or other public transit). In practice, this means that the retailer could subsidize or even pay for the ride. In the above interview, Enroute co-founder/CEO Aviv Frenkel provides an overview of the offering.…