Tag: autonomous vehicle
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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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Autonomous Shuttle Pilots in Europe, AMD Aspirations in Austin
Comprising an area approximately twice the size of New Jersey, the Netherlands punches above its weight, to use a boxing metaphor, in the piloting and implementation of autonomous vehicles. This is one takeaway from the recent TU-Delft webinar, Deployment potential of automated minibuses for first/last mile transport. Professor Bart van Arem explains that TU-Delft’s mission…
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Get Ready for Sidewalk Robots – Challenges and Opportunities
“We are not ready for sidewalk robots,” exclaims Harmonize Mobility”s Bern Grush in the above interview. Grush is qualified to make this statement as he is leading the efforts to standardize the curb interface for autonomous vehicles. It is important to note that in the context of the above conversation, autonomous vehicle means everything from…
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Driverless Lessons from the Sunshine State to the Garden State
“The interesting thing about this [autonomous vehicle] technology is that it has enormous potential for improving quality of life.” With that statement, Princeton Professor Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the penultimate session of the Smart Driving Car Summit, Making It Happen – Part 1. With a line-up of political leaders, this panel looked at…
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Energizing Tomorrow’s Electric Drivetrains
There is no simple answer to the question, What Will Power Safely-driven Cars, which is also the name of the April 1st, 2021 Smart Driving Car Summit session. One takeaway from this excellent session is that, as society looks to reduce the impacts of C02 emissions and other pollutants, it must do so in the…
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An On-Demand Public Transit Leapfrog
Is the largest city in America without a public bus transit system laying the groundwork for an autonomous, on-demand shuttle network? Arlington, Texas, a city of 400k in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is reportedly planning on spending $9M per year to serve its entire 99 square miles with 70 shuttles operated by Via. Via’s on-demand…