Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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The Virtual Transportation Network – Some Snippets from the AVS 16 Symposium
The challenges of tomorrow are evident by walking a few heartbreaking blocks of the streets of San Francisco. On the same boulevard where famous tech companies reside, there are often people living on sidewalks who are suffering; suffering from drug addiction, mental health issues and/or the high cost of housing. The resulting externalities mar one of the…
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The Book on Autonomous Cars & Land-Use #ConnectedandCharged
Will autonomous vehicles create a utopian or dystopian world? This is a question that Lauren Isaac, Manager of Sustainable Transportation – WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has been thinking about for a couple of years. Her thoughts on the topic can be found on her blog and, as she explains in the above video, a guide…
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Lyfting Cities to a New Level
“Now that people are using mobility as a service instead of owning their own cars as often as they used to, it really changes the way people need to use physical space in cities,” states Emily Castor, Director of Transportation Policy for Lyft. She points out that ridesharing services, such as Lyft, change the need…
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Picking the Swiftest Way to Travel
Lack of information represents friction to an economy and makes it less efficient than it could be. A source of friction for commuters is not knowing the fastest and most cost-efficient way to reach their destination. With new modes of transportation, such as on-demand ridesharing services and personal electric bikes and scooters, becoming mainstream, the need for timely information about routes…
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Make Things More Convenient for People
Creating better mobility solutions, while reducing the environmental impact of moving people, are the seemingly contradictory goals laid out by Gil Friend, the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Palo Alto. Friend was part of a panel of experts at ProspectSV’s Connected and Charged conference at the SAP campus in Palo Alto who discussed the…
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Applying Telecom Technology to Transportation
A comprehensive out-of-band signaling system, much like SS7 was to the telephony world, is what Nauto promises with their product offering. Nauto Cofounder and CEO, Stefan Heck, explains that they are developing devices that use the same relatively low-cost components, such as 4k cameras, that are also used in smart phones, Nauto gathers information and communicates to…