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Jul. 31, 2018 / Colin Stein

Bikes, Marketing Innovation, and the Big Three Automaker

PT contributor Scot Bathgate forwarded us this video from Ford from a few months ago that takes the “kids on…
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Jul. 13, 2018 / Colin Stein

Blog: Self-Driving Cars & Urbanization

Thanks to John Graham, architect with Graham Sherwin Studio, for this recommendation of Along for the Ride, a new blog…
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Jul. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Integrating Ride Hailing and Bike Sharing

I’ve been predicting the rise of the “Transportation Service Provider” — a consolidator of every mode of movement imaginable, integrated…
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Jun. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Distraction~A Problem with Drivers, Not Pedestrians

City narrows roads because you won't stop texting while walking https://t.co/ekIgbliSid pic.twitter.com/mXf2GVL50Y — njdotcom (@njdotcom) June 24, 2018 The title…
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Jun. 18, 2018 / Colin Stein

Vancouver Represents at International Solar Bike Rally

Friday, June 15th saw the official start of SunTrip 2018, the third annual solar bike rally — this year between…
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May. 30, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

How the “Perception Module” of an Autonomous Vehicle Killed a Pedestrian

Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary crash report related to the pedestrian fatality caused by the autonomous…
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May. 18, 2018 / Gordon Price

Dirty and Inevitable: The Uses of AVs

From Slate: Jeffrey Tumlin, a strategist at San Francisco-based transportation consultancy Nelson/Nygaard, and interim head of the Oakland department of…
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May. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Quote: Money, Margins and Automation

From Bloomberg: “Who’s Winning the Self Driving Car Race?“ Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicts that robo-taxis will help the ride-hailing…
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Apr. 16, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: A Ford Fleet in 2021

I’ve been predicting the rise of the TSP – Transportation Service Providers: potentially huge integrated companies providing consumers with transportation…
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Apr. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Driving Vehicles When You Are Over Eighty (Years Not Speed)

In March the Province of British Columbia enacted new rules for drivers of eighty years of age or more. Those…
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Mar. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Uber, Autonomous Vehicles, And "Edge Cases" in Arizona

While the rush to get autonomous vehicles onto the road and testing has meant that many jurisdictions have relaxed their…
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Mar. 27, 2018 / Gordon Price

Nightmare: AVs and Advertising

From Vox, by way of Doug Clarke: (There is) a growing concern among urbanists that AVs will, by making personal-vehicle…
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Mar. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

Designing Cities for AVs

From smartcitiesdive – some things to think about when designing or adapting cities for autonomous vehicles: Preparations and improvements could start…
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Mar. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Putting Tags on Cyclists, Pedestrians for the Autonomous Vehicle Future?

In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department, Bike Biz notes that Manuel Marsilio, general manager of the Confederation for…

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