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Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

  • ITNCountry and ISPs – A Conversation about Better Mobility & Building Community for Rural America

    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…

  • 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…

  • An Eyewitness View of the LVCC Loop – #CES2022

    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…

  • 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.…

  • Upward Urban & Rural Mobility via Autonomous Mobility

    It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture Selika Josiah Talbott chose for her virtual backdrop at the recent 2021 TRB Annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium sums up the mobility challenges that urban and rural locales face with existing infrastructure, particularly in low-income areas. Joining Talbott on this panel were…

  • NASA RAM Report – The Foundation for a Rural Air Revival

    As with so many of the developments in telecom and broadband, rural areas may provide the proving ground for the next generation of air travel. This is one of the important implications of NASA’s recently issued report, Regional Air Mobility (RAM). Investors, community leaders, policymakers, industry, and the general public are the target audience for…