Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Viodi View – 07/22/16

    Viodi View – 07/22/16

    The Virtual Transportation Network This week’s conference epiphany was the parallel between software defined telecom networks and software defined transportation networks. In both industries, the hardware is becoming secondary, as software allows for dynamic reconfiguration to meet demand. Telecommunications will be increasingly important as one of the inputs to connect sensors and make the transportation network…

  • The Virtual Transportation Network – Some Snippets from the AVS 16 Symposium

    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…

  • The Book on Autonomous Cars & Land-Use #ConnectedandCharged

    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…

  • Viodi View – 07/08/16

    Viodi View – 07/08/16

    The point of the broadband networks and the associated technology innovations, chronicled in the Viodi View, is to improve quality of life and make things better for people. A brief glance at the news is all one needs to see that there is a lot more than “room to improve.” Technology in the 21st century is…

  • Lyfting Cities to a New Level

    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…

  • FCC Completes Reverse Auction as Forward Auction Looms Large

    FCC Completes Reverse Auction as Forward Auction Looms Large

    Executive Summary: The FCC concluded the first round of its two-part spectrum incentive Auction 1000 on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Broadcasters sold some or all of their spectrum usage rights in exchange for millions of dollars.  It’s been called a “reverse auction” and formally as “Auction 1001” since spectrum was being relinquished rather than acquired.  The “forward auction,” formally known…