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Week End Views: Whistle Stops to AVs

Mobility and Innovation resources, news, and musings.

If you have a minute, take a look at Kevin Vincent’s article on how to provide regulatory certainty for AVs with performance and process standards and assurances about the decision-making abilities of AVs. This week’s webinar with NHTSA’s Acting Administrator and Kevin is the closest thing to an audible version of the same. (I will add the link when it is available.)

If you are looking to up your street cred on AVs, Mobility Hubs, and Curbside Management you might want to check out this curated list of readings that Lisa Nisenson and I put together for our poster session for Urbanism Next and my class for AVs and Land Use at ESI.

I finished Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race and have moved on to Julia Sweig’s Hiding in Plain Sight — a new biography of Lady Bird Johnson. And there is a 9-part podcast based on the recordings.

Here’s a teaser:

For the biography, Julia Sweig studied the unredacted daily taped diaries and papers of Lady Bird. Sweig shares memos from Lady Bird to the other LBJ including one from late 1963 foretelling his decision not to run for reelection In 1968.(Here is a podcast about that with material from Lady Bird 14 days into Johnson’s Presidency.) She accounts the First Lady’s whistle stop tour in 1964 that reveal her as a campaigner that Eleanor Roosevelt never was. Now I am immersed in the details of how her beautification work scaffolded for urban renewal as well as conservation and environmental legislation. She was friends with Jane Jacobs!

Have something to add to the list ? Drop a comment.
Have a good weekend!

Make My Monday: Cool job at a Cool Place

Quick apply for this awesome job at T4America shaping the policy to bring the innovation we need to mobility in the U.S. Which would you rather have BOGO Job or a position with endless opportunity? Be part of a team that is “ace-ing” advancing all the E’s:

Equity
Environment
Economic Opportunity
Plus Safety

No where is innovation needed more than through the policy toolkit. Metrics, funding, priorities. T4A needs your brain and your elbow grease even if you are not applying for the job.

Where would you start on policy innovation?

Make it a TGIM Monday for Beth Osborne, me, all of us and share this lead, share your ideas on policy innovation, or share another job.

If you have a mobility job to post drop me a note. I am getting ready to double or triple down on getting the word out on mobility jobs. I will feature No More FOMO Mondays in a long format as a blog. jobs board soon on my new website. (Launching this week www dot innovation4mobility dot com.)

P.S. “Ace-ing it? ” means advancing A2CES mobility systems. Accessible, Automated Connected Electric and Shared (including MaaS, Micromobility, and More Transit).

#innovation#job#environment#safety#infrastructureinvestment#policychange

Apply for the job here. https://lnkd.in/d6q5YuS

DIY Scenario Planning

A couple of years ago Lisa Nisenson and I fashioned this Mini-Metropolis scenario planning exercise to help planners, engineers, and policy types thinking through the questions that we all have about the implications of AV deployments. The exercise and the advice on use cases and key issues till hold. A week or so ago I conducted this exercise with a group of engineers focused on land use and infrastructure readiness.

It may not generate a great conversation for cocktail hour, but it is still a good place for cities to start if they want to Join the AV Club. Tap here if you want to download the article version as it appeared in City Vision.

What questions would your mayor want answered?

Take care with predictions

History Lesson: Urban Mobility at the Turn of the Last Century. What’s the lesson from the “History of Electric Scooters? ” or even electric vehicles? On the morn of an AV class, my mantra is: 

Create the future of mobility. Be careful about predictions.

At the end of the 19th century, Texas cities and other places saw EVs precede the internal combustion engine. In San Antonio, EVs were advertised alongside the horse and buggy. And cities saw street cars above ground and subways underground.  

In the teens, electric scooters gave women a way to travel independently sporting billowing skirts and police officers a way to dart down alley ways.

By the 50s and 60s, the car was king of the road. And then there is alot more history — planes, trains, smart cars, shared bikes, dockless scooters, and AVs.

We are at another crossroads in transportation. What will we choose it to be? I am setting my sights on A3CES. Accessible, Automated, Active, Connected, Electric, and Shared Mobility Systems. 

How do you want to travel when we return to work?

Would you like the full story? Check it out the History of the Electric Scooter.”

NO MO FOMO MONDAYS

Even now, no one ever says TGIM. Reverse those blues and blahs. Let’s have No More Fear of Missing Out Mondays. Start the week sharing opportunities. Help some one map their future.

Jobs; Courses; Conferences; Webinars, Funding.

For the past year, I have been posting (unsolicited) job hunting advice, webinar tips, funding opportunities. Let’s crowdsource so no one has a left-behind Monday. Help by sending us:

✔️ Job leads

✔️ Grant postings

✔️ Innovation challenges

✔️ Upcoming webinars

✔️ Request for case studies

Where to send them:

✔️ Post ‘em

✔️ Share ‘em with me

✔️. Post on your organizations LinkedIn page

What will I do with them:

✔️ Post ‘em

✔️ Share ‘em

✔️ Include in my I4M newsletter

Here are two for this week:

🏁 Job in Hawai’i East West Center Conference’s looking for a seminar coordinator one urban transformation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on the role of smart technologies in creating more resilient and sustainable urban environments.

🏁 American Planning Association Webinar: Understanding Data Today to Save tomorrow. How data fuels next gen planning for recovery.

No Mo FOMO Mondays or TGIM? DM me and make my monday and someone else’s too.