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…
Week End Views
Mobility resources, news, and reflections to view over the weekend. 🚎. I love the micro-webinar format (18 and a half minutes) of Multimodal Mondays. This week Edwin Van Den Belot and Sandra Phillips discuss MaaS in the Netherlands. https://lnkd.in/dVJg6rN 🚎. As transit agencies across the country look to build transit back better, here is a chance to…
Weekend Listens (and Reads)
Mobility and Innovation resources, news, and musings to view this weekend. First a warm up: I often do things if not backwards then sideways. I started by recording podcasts (on AVs). And then three years later, I loaded my phone with podcasts for hours of bus rides in Columbia. I had a lot of time…
Fresh Start Monday
Today’s #NoMoreFOMOMonday features jobs, conferences, free coaching and more. Is there a better way to start a Monday ? Take a look. May Mobility is recruiting for paid internships in strategy — policy and BD. Connect with @Tara Lanigan. Spend your summer working on on cities and partnerships at one of my fav self-driving shuttle…
What you should read this weekend
Mobility and Innovation resources, news, and musings to view this weekend. The Eno Center on Transportation webinar on bus electrification and workforce equity provides suggestions of upskilling workers for new jobs relevant across A2CES mobility systems. Here is the link to the recording. ENO also authored 3 reports for FTA’s Mobility Sandbox. The reports found…
I loved pooled rides in TNCs, until I didn’t.
One morning I needed to get to National airport for an early morning flight; and it took 3x as long as it would have in solo ride. What happened? Read on and then take a listen to learn how Alex Wallar and colleauges solved what he calls the “Uber Pool .”
Developing Data Acumen Pt 1 : What Cities Need to Know about Data
Data will fuel new mobility. Smart phones, retail, TNCs, bus and transit occupant counters, smart infrastructure and more generate massive amounts of valuable data. This will only escalate with the arrival of connected and automated vehicles. Data can drive innovations in safety, traffic and asset management, transit and freight, and generate new revenue. As cities…
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: EquityEnvironmentEconomic OpportunityPlus Safety No where is innovation needed…
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…
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…
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…