Presented at Creating Sustainable Mobility seminar in Houston, Texas, October 14, 2014, by Paul Steinberg.
Paul Steinberg is Vice President of Business Development for Carma Carpool, a mobile transportation applications provider.
Dealing with Urban Mobility Challenges - What can we learn from China?Nicolas Meilhan
The document discusses urban mobility challenges in China and potential solutions:
- China faces issues like traffic congestion, poor air quality, road safety concerns, and parking shortages due to factors like rapid urbanization and rising private car ownership.
- The Chinese government has implemented initiatives like quotas on new vehicle licenses, restrictions on vehicle circulation, increased parking fees, improved public transportation, dedicated bus and bike lanes, promoting electric vehicles, and encouraging small fuel-efficient vehicles.
- Some solutions like restrictions on circulation, improved public transit, and dedicated bus lanes have shown success in reducing pollution, congestion, and parking issues in Chinese cities, and may be transferable to European cities facing similar problems.
This document summarizes a presentation about three potential revolutions in global transportation by 2030/2050: electrification of vehicles, real-time shared mobility, and vehicle automation. It outlines three scenarios for how these revolutions may play out: Business As Usual with limited changes; a Technology-Dominant scenario where automation and electrification grow substantially but shared mobility does not; and an Avoid-Shift-Improve scenario where all three revolutions are adopted at large scale alongside supportive urban planning and pricing policies. The presentation analyzes the impacts of these scenarios on passenger travel, vehicle sales, and energy use in the United States. The next steps are to refine the results and develop full narratives and policy implications.
The Future of Mobility: Is Personal Car Ownership a Thing of the Past?Social Media Today
The document discusses a webinar on the future of mobility and whether personal car ownership will become obsolete. It introduces the panelists which include the Chief Scientist for Mobility at Shell, an Assistant Professor studying electric vehicles and shared transportation, and a Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan covering urban mobility trends. The webinar will examine how mobility may change by 2030 with alternative fuels, rapid urbanization, new generations, and autonomous vehicles potentially making personal car ownership obsolete.
Uber has partnered with several US transit agencies to provide "first mile last mile" transportation connections. These partnerships provide subsidies and discounts for Uber rides to and from train and bus stations. Data shared through Uber's Movement program can help cities make better transportation policy decisions by analyzing rider origins and destinations. A transition to shared self-driving cars could significantly reduce the number of vehicles on roads according to projections.
This document discusses several "lies" regarding shared mobility and new mobility business models:
1) Shared mobility is often not truly shared, as services like Uber and taxis typically only have 1.5-1.6 passengers per vehicle. Increased use of on-demand services may reduce car ownership but likely increase congestion.
2) Shared vehicle use and carsharing have been declining for decades, and growth of these services has been dwarfed by continued growth in private car ownership.
3) Shared mobility will not necessarily lead to more efficient use of resources, as mobility-as-a-service business models rely on increasing the total amount of mobility sold.
4) Urban planning and policies will be
French Carsharing and P2P Carsharing markets - sept 2013Gui Bulaty
This document summarizes carsharing and peer-to-peer carsharing markets in France. It provides an overview of major operators, prices for different vehicle types, when carsharing is preferable to ownership for different trip lengths, and analysis of coverage across urban and rural areas. Key findings include that 59% of the French population lives within 15 minutes of a shared vehicle, but coverage is much lower in rural areas and near airports. The number of shared vehicles has grown 39% in the past 5 months.
Dealing with Urban Mobility Challenges - What can we learn from China?Nicolas Meilhan
The document discusses urban mobility challenges in China and potential solutions:
- China faces issues like traffic congestion, poor air quality, road safety concerns, and parking shortages due to factors like rapid urbanization and rising private car ownership.
- The Chinese government has implemented initiatives like quotas on new vehicle licenses, restrictions on vehicle circulation, increased parking fees, improved public transportation, dedicated bus and bike lanes, promoting electric vehicles, and encouraging small fuel-efficient vehicles.
- Some solutions like restrictions on circulation, improved public transit, and dedicated bus lanes have shown success in reducing pollution, congestion, and parking issues in Chinese cities, and may be transferable to European cities facing similar problems.
This document summarizes a presentation about three potential revolutions in global transportation by 2030/2050: electrification of vehicles, real-time shared mobility, and vehicle automation. It outlines three scenarios for how these revolutions may play out: Business As Usual with limited changes; a Technology-Dominant scenario where automation and electrification grow substantially but shared mobility does not; and an Avoid-Shift-Improve scenario where all three revolutions are adopted at large scale alongside supportive urban planning and pricing policies. The presentation analyzes the impacts of these scenarios on passenger travel, vehicle sales, and energy use in the United States. The next steps are to refine the results and develop full narratives and policy implications.
The Future of Mobility: Is Personal Car Ownership a Thing of the Past?Social Media Today
The document discusses a webinar on the future of mobility and whether personal car ownership will become obsolete. It introduces the panelists which include the Chief Scientist for Mobility at Shell, an Assistant Professor studying electric vehicles and shared transportation, and a Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan covering urban mobility trends. The webinar will examine how mobility may change by 2030 with alternative fuels, rapid urbanization, new generations, and autonomous vehicles potentially making personal car ownership obsolete.
Uber has partnered with several US transit agencies to provide "first mile last mile" transportation connections. These partnerships provide subsidies and discounts for Uber rides to and from train and bus stations. Data shared through Uber's Movement program can help cities make better transportation policy decisions by analyzing rider origins and destinations. A transition to shared self-driving cars could significantly reduce the number of vehicles on roads according to projections.
This document discusses several "lies" regarding shared mobility and new mobility business models:
1) Shared mobility is often not truly shared, as services like Uber and taxis typically only have 1.5-1.6 passengers per vehicle. Increased use of on-demand services may reduce car ownership but likely increase congestion.
2) Shared vehicle use and carsharing have been declining for decades, and growth of these services has been dwarfed by continued growth in private car ownership.
3) Shared mobility will not necessarily lead to more efficient use of resources, as mobility-as-a-service business models rely on increasing the total amount of mobility sold.
4) Urban planning and policies will be
French Carsharing and P2P Carsharing markets - sept 2013Gui Bulaty
This document summarizes carsharing and peer-to-peer carsharing markets in France. It provides an overview of major operators, prices for different vehicle types, when carsharing is preferable to ownership for different trip lengths, and analysis of coverage across urban and rural areas. Key findings include that 59% of the French population lives within 15 minutes of a shared vehicle, but coverage is much lower in rural areas and near airports. The number of shared vehicles has grown 39% in the past 5 months.
FOR ALL THE media narratives focusing on the unsavory aspects of the shared scooter and bike networks that have landed in cities in recent years—the clutter, the safety hazards, the lost parking spots—these “microbility” services have the potential to solve some of the biggest problems confronting urban and suburban communities. They can expand access to public transportation, reduce our environmental footprint, and save us money. Micromobility can be just as transformational as solar power or electric vehicles—with impacts that will be felt much sooner.
This document discusses collaborative models for public and on-demand bus transport in India. It summarizes the landscape of bus aggregator companies in India and provides a case study on the environmental impacts of Shuttl operations in Delhi-NCR. The key findings are that Shuttl avoided 14,022 tons of CO2 emissions in 2017 and removed 4,312 passenger car units from the road per day. However, Shuttl customers tend to be educated professionals, indicating it currently caters to a niche market. The document raises questions about impacts in other cities and opportunities for public transit agencies and private operators to collaborate better.
This document discusses opportunities for reducing emissions from transportation in the UK over the next 10 years. It notes that electric vehicles may only reduce emissions by 50% compared to gasoline vehicles, and widespread adoption of EVs alone will not meet carbon reduction targets given expected growth in the number of vehicles. Shared mobility solutions need to provide a credible alternative to individual car ownership to significantly lower emissions. The document envisions that in 10 years, shared mobility options like car clubs would be mainstream across the UK, with mobility hubs established in most urban and some rural areas. Government policy would prioritize reducing transport demand and efficiently sharing existing resources to reform the role of privately-owned cars.
This document discusses the growth of car sharing services as an alternative to private car ownership. It notes that while car pooling is currently illegal in Ontario except for commuting, 25% of San Francisco commuters casually car pool with strangers. The document summarizes a study finding that each shared car replaces approximately 8 individually owned cars, and members drive 2,900 fewer kilometers per year, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 1.2 tonnes annually. It advocates for cities to encourage car sharing through policies like dedicated on-street parking spaces, allowing car sharing vehicles to be parked on residential properties, and marketing partnerships with transit agencies.
Place-based Transport Decarbonisation webinar (2 of 2) combined slidesDecarboN8
The Department for Transport’s Decarbonisation Plan: 'Setting the Challenge' document lists place-based decarbonisation as one of its six key pillars. But what does place-based decarbonisation mean and how might it shape the final Decarbonisation Plan?
The DecarboN8 Network was set up in September 2019 in recognition of the need for a place-based approach to decarbonisation. These webinars will launch the network’s framework for taking a place-based approach and why this is critical if we are to hit a zero carbon pathway. These events are also an opportunity to hear from partners across the North about what this means to them and to discuss how to bring place-based decarbonisation to life.
These slides were presented during the 2nd event in Sept 2020.
Additional slides from Claire Stocks presentation can be found here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZLOADaekLOLliMZTDMSEkSSWRKtRRNg3FN6EUdKnJ0I/edit?usp=sharing
Speakers:
Greg Marsden, University of Leeds ITS
Richard Walker, Department for Transport
Noel Collings, West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Jack Snape & Peter Cole, Transport for the North
Claire Stocks, Walk Ride Greater Manchester
Mark Jessop and Helen Firth, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
The document discusses the negative impacts of car dependency and urban sprawl. It notes that cities with higher rates of driving have fewer people and that an over-reliance on cars can degrade cities through dispersed development patterns, generous parking, and automobile-oriented planning. However, dense cities can accommodate more people in less space, leaving more natural areas intact. The future of transportation may increasingly involve ride-sharing and fewer people owning their own cars.
This document discusses new mobility and how cities can leverage emerging technologies. It describes how ride-hailing services like Ola and Uber have disrupted transportation in Indian cities between 2010-2017. Other areas being disrupted include shared mobility, commuter experience, product innovation, and data-driven decision making. The document outlines WRI's approach of running city-led accelerator programs to support new mobility enterprises. It provides examples of past programs focused on auto rickshaws, shared mobility, mobility as a service, and last-mile connectivity. Cities are encouraged to quickly learn about new technologies through pilot programs and leverage other stakeholders to structure engagements on new mobility solutions.
Lawrence J. Murphy, P.E.
Rebecca Jablon, AICP
CDM, Inc.
The City of Asheville, North Carolina took on a challenging goal to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from City operations and services by 2% per year from 2007 levels until an 80% reduction is achieved. To achieve its goal, the City developed an Asheville Sustainability Management Plan (SMP). In 2008, the City’s fleet and employee commute were responsible for nearly a third of the City’s greenhouse gases. One key component to improving the sustainability in the City’s transportation sector is to go green. Asheville’s green transportation strategy is a comprehensive plan that focuses on reducing vehicle miles traveled and fuel consumption as well as encouraging an increase in public transportation use. The sustainable vision of Asheville and its goal to reduce greenhouse gases will conserve energy and improve the environment. Techniques employed and planned are transferrable to any municipality.
This document discusses various examples of innovative solutions to social and economic problems that are emerging around the world. It highlights how organizations are creatively combining technologies and business models to tackle issues like healthcare access and costs, water purification, education, transportation congestion, and obesity. Examples mentioned include an affordable cardiac hospital in India, a water purifier from Coca-Cola and Dean Kamen, massive open online courses for education, ridesharing apps to reduce congestion, and Walmart opening stores in "food deserts" to improve access to affordable groceries. The document argues that a "Solution Economy" is developing through new players, forms of collaboration, and the convergence of technologies to disrupt and connect in ways that scale solutions.
Disruptive Innovation & The Roadless Economy in New ZealandArturo Pelayo
This is the slide deck presented at the joint event by ARIA Logistics (presented by co-Founder Arturo Pelayo) and The Innovation Liberation Front in Auckland, New Zealand.
For updates on upcoming events and workshops, please follow @arialogistics on twitter, our website blog and facebook page.
NGP Capital is an experienced investor with over $1.2 billion in assets under management. It has invested in 80 companies through its latest fund, including 7 that have reached $1 billion in value. NGP focuses on smart cities and smart mobility investments that can build a better transportation system. Some examples mentioned include ridesharing services, car sharing, micro-mobility options like bikes and scooters, and electric autonomous vehicles which can reduce congestion and pollution in cities. The document discusses how these innovative transportation solutions can improve urban mobility and access while supporting more sustainable development patterns.
An overview of urban transport and mobility needs in urban Africa. Presented by Roger Gorham at Transforming Transportation 2015.
Transforming Transportation 2015: Smart Cities for Shared Prosperity is the annual conference co-organized by the World Resources Institute and the World Bank.
The document discusses unsustainable mobility and the automotive sector. It describes how mobility currently relies heavily on fossil fuels and causes high environmental pollution. The automotive industry focuses on mass production and selling new vehicles for profit, rather than optimizing resource use over the vehicle lifecycle. For mobility to become sustainable, innovations are needed not just in vehicles but also in redesigning the larger production and consumption system to better align economic interests with sustainability goals.
Robotaxis could work a lot like Lyft or Uber, minus a driver, and decrease the overall number of cars owned. They’d be convenient and flexible for a rider – something public transportation always has struggled to be.
This document summarizes car sharing programs and provides details about car sharing in Kansas City. It discusses different car sharing models and major providers like Zipcar. It notes that car sharing in other cities has led to decreased personal car ownership and increased use of alternative transportation. The document outlines Kansas City's existing car sharing programs with Zipcar and goals for expanding the program, which could decrease traffic and improve the environment if membership and vehicle usage goals are met.
Regulators and consumers are increasingly demanding that companies reduce their carbon footprint, especially from diesel trucks. Several companies have introduced electric trucks as alternatives. While reducing trucks' emissions, Australia is also focusing on reducing emissions from construction and mining equipment as well as ships and locomotives. Companies should collaborate with compliance teams to track upcoming diesel bans and consider converting parts of their fleets to electric vehicles. Retailers are exploring autonomous delivery trucks and robots to make last-mile delivery more sustainable and reduce costs.
Driverless cars have the potential to transform transportation by improving safety, reducing emissions and congestion, and increasing mobility. The UK is positioned to become a leader in this technology by establishing test programs in several cities and reviewing regulations in 2017. Fully autonomous vehicles could be on roads by 2020-2025, leading to major changes like decreased car ownership and the rise of driverless ride-sharing services. While this transition provides economic opportunities, it also threatens some existing jobs like professional drivers and presents new cybersecurity risks from hackers targeting connected vehicles.
Although aspects of Paris are in-line with sustainable development, one feature that is not, is the enormous amount of traffic congestion. This presentation gives suggestions for decreasing the amount of traffic in Paris, in hopes of creating a more sustainable city.
Why Cities Choose Smart Parking Solutions from Streetline
This white paper examines the impact of parking on the transportation ecosystem as well as the quality of life in a city. Technological solutions are offered to address parking congestion, which is estimated at 30% of city traffic. Streetline's sensors and consumer & municipal applications provide the tools a city needs to implement smarter parking strategies.
This document summarizes a presentation on autonomous vehicles given to the Southern New England APA Conference on October 17, 2013. It discusses several key points:
1) Major automakers like Google, Nissan, Ford, and BMW are developing autonomous vehicle technology, with some vehicles able to perform functions like adaptive cruise control, parallel parking, and emergency braking without human input.
2) Testing by Google has shown its self-driving cars can travel over 300,000 miles without an accident compared to the average human driver error rate. However, fully autonomous vehicles without human oversight present complex control and legal issues.
3) Autonomous vehicles could significantly impact transportation, land use, and urban design by reducing the need
FOR ALL THE media narratives focusing on the unsavory aspects of the shared scooter and bike networks that have landed in cities in recent years—the clutter, the safety hazards, the lost parking spots—these “microbility” services have the potential to solve some of the biggest problems confronting urban and suburban communities. They can expand access to public transportation, reduce our environmental footprint, and save us money. Micromobility can be just as transformational as solar power or electric vehicles—with impacts that will be felt much sooner.
This document discusses collaborative models for public and on-demand bus transport in India. It summarizes the landscape of bus aggregator companies in India and provides a case study on the environmental impacts of Shuttl operations in Delhi-NCR. The key findings are that Shuttl avoided 14,022 tons of CO2 emissions in 2017 and removed 4,312 passenger car units from the road per day. However, Shuttl customers tend to be educated professionals, indicating it currently caters to a niche market. The document raises questions about impacts in other cities and opportunities for public transit agencies and private operators to collaborate better.
This document discusses opportunities for reducing emissions from transportation in the UK over the next 10 years. It notes that electric vehicles may only reduce emissions by 50% compared to gasoline vehicles, and widespread adoption of EVs alone will not meet carbon reduction targets given expected growth in the number of vehicles. Shared mobility solutions need to provide a credible alternative to individual car ownership to significantly lower emissions. The document envisions that in 10 years, shared mobility options like car clubs would be mainstream across the UK, with mobility hubs established in most urban and some rural areas. Government policy would prioritize reducing transport demand and efficiently sharing existing resources to reform the role of privately-owned cars.
This document discusses the growth of car sharing services as an alternative to private car ownership. It notes that while car pooling is currently illegal in Ontario except for commuting, 25% of San Francisco commuters casually car pool with strangers. The document summarizes a study finding that each shared car replaces approximately 8 individually owned cars, and members drive 2,900 fewer kilometers per year, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 1.2 tonnes annually. It advocates for cities to encourage car sharing through policies like dedicated on-street parking spaces, allowing car sharing vehicles to be parked on residential properties, and marketing partnerships with transit agencies.
Place-based Transport Decarbonisation webinar (2 of 2) combined slidesDecarboN8
The Department for Transport’s Decarbonisation Plan: 'Setting the Challenge' document lists place-based decarbonisation as one of its six key pillars. But what does place-based decarbonisation mean and how might it shape the final Decarbonisation Plan?
The DecarboN8 Network was set up in September 2019 in recognition of the need for a place-based approach to decarbonisation. These webinars will launch the network’s framework for taking a place-based approach and why this is critical if we are to hit a zero carbon pathway. These events are also an opportunity to hear from partners across the North about what this means to them and to discuss how to bring place-based decarbonisation to life.
These slides were presented during the 2nd event in Sept 2020.
Additional slides from Claire Stocks presentation can be found here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZLOADaekLOLliMZTDMSEkSSWRKtRRNg3FN6EUdKnJ0I/edit?usp=sharing
Speakers:
Greg Marsden, University of Leeds ITS
Richard Walker, Department for Transport
Noel Collings, West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Jack Snape & Peter Cole, Transport for the North
Claire Stocks, Walk Ride Greater Manchester
Mark Jessop and Helen Firth, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
The document discusses the negative impacts of car dependency and urban sprawl. It notes that cities with higher rates of driving have fewer people and that an over-reliance on cars can degrade cities through dispersed development patterns, generous parking, and automobile-oriented planning. However, dense cities can accommodate more people in less space, leaving more natural areas intact. The future of transportation may increasingly involve ride-sharing and fewer people owning their own cars.
This document discusses new mobility and how cities can leverage emerging technologies. It describes how ride-hailing services like Ola and Uber have disrupted transportation in Indian cities between 2010-2017. Other areas being disrupted include shared mobility, commuter experience, product innovation, and data-driven decision making. The document outlines WRI's approach of running city-led accelerator programs to support new mobility enterprises. It provides examples of past programs focused on auto rickshaws, shared mobility, mobility as a service, and last-mile connectivity. Cities are encouraged to quickly learn about new technologies through pilot programs and leverage other stakeholders to structure engagements on new mobility solutions.
Lawrence J. Murphy, P.E.
Rebecca Jablon, AICP
CDM, Inc.
The City of Asheville, North Carolina took on a challenging goal to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from City operations and services by 2% per year from 2007 levels until an 80% reduction is achieved. To achieve its goal, the City developed an Asheville Sustainability Management Plan (SMP). In 2008, the City’s fleet and employee commute were responsible for nearly a third of the City’s greenhouse gases. One key component to improving the sustainability in the City’s transportation sector is to go green. Asheville’s green transportation strategy is a comprehensive plan that focuses on reducing vehicle miles traveled and fuel consumption as well as encouraging an increase in public transportation use. The sustainable vision of Asheville and its goal to reduce greenhouse gases will conserve energy and improve the environment. Techniques employed and planned are transferrable to any municipality.
This document discusses various examples of innovative solutions to social and economic problems that are emerging around the world. It highlights how organizations are creatively combining technologies and business models to tackle issues like healthcare access and costs, water purification, education, transportation congestion, and obesity. Examples mentioned include an affordable cardiac hospital in India, a water purifier from Coca-Cola and Dean Kamen, massive open online courses for education, ridesharing apps to reduce congestion, and Walmart opening stores in "food deserts" to improve access to affordable groceries. The document argues that a "Solution Economy" is developing through new players, forms of collaboration, and the convergence of technologies to disrupt and connect in ways that scale solutions.
Disruptive Innovation & The Roadless Economy in New ZealandArturo Pelayo
This is the slide deck presented at the joint event by ARIA Logistics (presented by co-Founder Arturo Pelayo) and The Innovation Liberation Front in Auckland, New Zealand.
For updates on upcoming events and workshops, please follow @arialogistics on twitter, our website blog and facebook page.
NGP Capital is an experienced investor with over $1.2 billion in assets under management. It has invested in 80 companies through its latest fund, including 7 that have reached $1 billion in value. NGP focuses on smart cities and smart mobility investments that can build a better transportation system. Some examples mentioned include ridesharing services, car sharing, micro-mobility options like bikes and scooters, and electric autonomous vehicles which can reduce congestion and pollution in cities. The document discusses how these innovative transportation solutions can improve urban mobility and access while supporting more sustainable development patterns.
An overview of urban transport and mobility needs in urban Africa. Presented by Roger Gorham at Transforming Transportation 2015.
Transforming Transportation 2015: Smart Cities for Shared Prosperity is the annual conference co-organized by the World Resources Institute and the World Bank.
The document discusses unsustainable mobility and the automotive sector. It describes how mobility currently relies heavily on fossil fuels and causes high environmental pollution. The automotive industry focuses on mass production and selling new vehicles for profit, rather than optimizing resource use over the vehicle lifecycle. For mobility to become sustainable, innovations are needed not just in vehicles but also in redesigning the larger production and consumption system to better align economic interests with sustainability goals.
Robotaxis could work a lot like Lyft or Uber, minus a driver, and decrease the overall number of cars owned. They’d be convenient and flexible for a rider – something public transportation always has struggled to be.
This document summarizes car sharing programs and provides details about car sharing in Kansas City. It discusses different car sharing models and major providers like Zipcar. It notes that car sharing in other cities has led to decreased personal car ownership and increased use of alternative transportation. The document outlines Kansas City's existing car sharing programs with Zipcar and goals for expanding the program, which could decrease traffic and improve the environment if membership and vehicle usage goals are met.
Regulators and consumers are increasingly demanding that companies reduce their carbon footprint, especially from diesel trucks. Several companies have introduced electric trucks as alternatives. While reducing trucks' emissions, Australia is also focusing on reducing emissions from construction and mining equipment as well as ships and locomotives. Companies should collaborate with compliance teams to track upcoming diesel bans and consider converting parts of their fleets to electric vehicles. Retailers are exploring autonomous delivery trucks and robots to make last-mile delivery more sustainable and reduce costs.
Driverless cars have the potential to transform transportation by improving safety, reducing emissions and congestion, and increasing mobility. The UK is positioned to become a leader in this technology by establishing test programs in several cities and reviewing regulations in 2017. Fully autonomous vehicles could be on roads by 2020-2025, leading to major changes like decreased car ownership and the rise of driverless ride-sharing services. While this transition provides economic opportunities, it also threatens some existing jobs like professional drivers and presents new cybersecurity risks from hackers targeting connected vehicles.
Although aspects of Paris are in-line with sustainable development, one feature that is not, is the enormous amount of traffic congestion. This presentation gives suggestions for decreasing the amount of traffic in Paris, in hopes of creating a more sustainable city.
Why Cities Choose Smart Parking Solutions from Streetline
This white paper examines the impact of parking on the transportation ecosystem as well as the quality of life in a city. Technological solutions are offered to address parking congestion, which is estimated at 30% of city traffic. Streetline's sensors and consumer & municipal applications provide the tools a city needs to implement smarter parking strategies.
This document summarizes a presentation on autonomous vehicles given to the Southern New England APA Conference on October 17, 2013. It discusses several key points:
1) Major automakers like Google, Nissan, Ford, and BMW are developing autonomous vehicle technology, with some vehicles able to perform functions like adaptive cruise control, parallel parking, and emergency braking without human input.
2) Testing by Google has shown its self-driving cars can travel over 300,000 miles without an accident compared to the average human driver error rate. However, fully autonomous vehicles without human oversight present complex control and legal issues.
3) Autonomous vehicles could significantly impact transportation, land use, and urban design by reducing the need
This presentation was given to Broward County, FL Commuter Services in 2005. It is a basic explanation of what car sharing is, and how it works. Car Sharing 101!
2017 Autonomous Vehicle Presentation Package Michael Scheno
This exclusive package includes presentations by Annabel R. Chang, Director of Public Policy at Lyft, Glen DeVos, Vice President – Engineering at Delphi, and Sam Abuelsamid, Senior Research Analyst at Navigant Research.
The document discusses the concept of a "Car-Free Omaha" and advocates for more livable streets and neighborhoods that are less dependent on automobiles. It notes that current transportation planning in the US focuses too much on cars over people. It outlines some of the health, financial, social and environmental benefits of more walkable and bikeable communities with good public transit options. Examples of car-free corridors from other cities are provided. Updates on transportation planning efforts in Omaha are also mentioned.
SANDAG manages transportation, housing, and other regional plans in San Diego County. Their RideLink program promotes alternative commuting like carpooling, vanpooling, transit, biking and teleworking to reduce traffic and pollution. RideLink has enrolled over 75,000 employees who have taken over 2 million cars off roads during rush hours, saving over 100 million vehicle miles and 5 million gallons of gas. The program offers services like matching commuters, a guaranteed ride home, and vanpool and bike subsidies.
Transportation & Green House Gas Pollution Claudia GirrbachClaudia Girrbach
Transportation is the second largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the US, projected to rise to 36% by 2020. Cars, trucks, and planes are major contributors, with highway and air transportation accounting for 80% of emissions. More efficient transportation methods and a shift away from higher polluting options are needed to significantly reduce emissions. Businesses can take immediate steps like measuring their carbon footprint, promoting commuter alternatives, and using more efficient cargo transportation to save money while lowering greenhouse gas pollution.
Ride Sharing, Congestion, and the Need for Real SharingJeffrey Funk
Current ride sharing services are not financially sustainable. Although they provide more convenience than do taxi services, they are experiencing massive losses because they have the same cost structure as do taxis and thus must compete through subsidies and lower wages. After all, they use the same vehicles, roads, and drivers, and only GPS algorithms and phones are new.
They also increase congestion. Just as more private vehicles or taxis on the road will increase congestion, more ride sharing vehicles also increase congestion.
These slides describe new ways to use the technologies of ride sharing to reduce congestion along with costs while at the same time keeping travel time low. This can be done through changing public transportation systems or allowing private companies to offer competing services. For instance, current bus services, whether they are private or public, need to use the algorithms, GPS, phones and other technologies of ride sharing to revise routes, schedules and the premises that currently underpin public transportation. There is no reason a bus should be certain size, stop every 200 meters, or follow the same route all day. Algorithms and phones enable new types of routes in which designers simultaneously minimize time travel and maximize number of passengers transported per vehicle.hour.
The document summarizes presentations from an urban mobility summit hosted by Uber. It discusses partnerships between Uber and public transit agencies to provide first/last mile transportation. Examples highlighted partnerships in Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, and other cities where Uber provides subsidies or discounts for trips to/from transit stations. The document also discusses how the launch of London's Night Tube service provided an opportunity to study the relationship between Uber and public transit ridership. Finally, the document outlines Uber's approaches to safety and the future of urban transportation as private car ownership declines and ridesharing increases.
This document summarizes the sustainable mobility strategy of San Francisco and the Bay Area region. It discusses:
1) Key facts about San Francisco and the Bay Area region including population sizes and transportation modes used.
2) The city's goals to grow sustainably and manage future transportation demands through partnerships and integrated transit, walking, biking, and vehicle sharing networks.
3) The agency's strategic direction to improve customer experience, streamline operations, and support smart land use through policies and infrastructure investments.
Carsharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. It allows users occasional access to vehicles and reduces the need for individual car ownership. NOLA Car Share will be a nonprofit organization in New Orleans that will provide benefits like reduced traffic, emissions and parking needs while increasing public transit ridership. Carsharing has positive environmental and economic impacts on communities by reducing individually owned vehicles and freeing up parking spaces.
Mobility-on-Demand is seeking funding to launch a one-way car sharing service using SMART ForTwo vehicles that can be picked up and dropped off anywhere in an urban area. The founders are PhD students from MIT with expertise in transportation and operations. They have run a small pilot on the MIT campus and are seeking funds for Series A to expand the service to nearby colleges and then the city of Cambridge. Their financial projections estimate 58% gross margins and the service could help reduce congestion by replacing up to 30 personally owned vehicles for each shared car.
Representatives from the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency, Verdis Group, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce give presentations about efforts and strategies to help employers save resources by providing solutions to how employees get to work.
Quick intro to Carma and why it makes sense to 'get there together'!
Make a change to your commute today and find out how everyone benefits from this breakthrough app.
Multiple Passenger Ride Sharing Changes Economics of CommutingJeffrey Funk
While Uber has challenged taxi drivers, multiple passenger ride sharing service can give us the both of best worlds: short travel times and low prices. They can provide the low prices of public transport with the short travel times of private cars or single passenger taxis. Different than Uber Pool or other crowd sourcing services, the key is for the startup to guarantee both short travel times and low prices, even if demand does not initially exist. This can be be done by having better data on the starting and ending points of travelers, which enables us to identify high demand routes and times and thus enable services that have few stops. The fewer stops enable short transit times and the multiple passengers in cars, vans, or mini-buses can reduce costs.
Car sharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. NOLA Car Share will be a non-profit community organization that aims to provide a car sharing service in New Orleans. Car sharing has positive environmental and economic benefits for communities by reducing the number of personally owned vehicles, traffic, parking needs, and carbon emissions while saving individuals money compared to car ownership.
Beyond The Curb, Enabling Mobility In Smart Cities - ParkMobileParkMobile LLC
The document discusses the growing problem of urban congestion as more people move to cities. It notes that by 2050, 68% of the world's population will live in cities, up from 55% today. Several US cities are highlighted that lose significant time and money to traffic congestion each year, with New York City losing over $9 billion annually. The document advocates that cities adopt a "mobility strategy" to better coordinate different transportation options like public transit, ride-hailing, parking, and scooters/bikes, in order to empower citizens and reduce congestion compared to an enforcement-only approach. It notes a mobility app could help cities optimize curb space and facilitate multimodal trip planning and payments.
Similar to Creating Sustainable Mobility (Lone Star ACT 2014) Paul Steinberg (20)
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
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Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
2. What is the Problem?
The average annual cost of driving a sedan in the US = $9,122
The average passenger vehicle emits 5.1 tons of CO2 per year,
making our car culture responsible for 33% of US emissions
The typical American spends a whole week
and wastes 19 gallons of fuel sitting in traffic every year
Most of us drive to work alone, i.e. with three empty seats!
3. Potential for improved vehicle throughput on highways
Decades to replace existing cars
Driverless Cars may be the Future
4. Riderless Cars are the Reality Today
A road that is 100% full is utilizing only 25% capacity
We can no longer afford to build our way out
5. Shared Use Mobility
Source: Susan Shaheen Ph.D. of UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center
6. Save up to 75% compared to the cost of driving
Reduce your dependency on fuel, reduce your carbon footprint
Get access to carpool/HOV/express lanes and get your free time back
Spend time working or socializing with your neighbors - have some fun!
Shared Use Mobility
7. Public Providers
Ladders of accessibility and ADA
Usage is trending up in urban markets
Subsidized through federal government programs
8. Publicly Available Transit Data
Once data is open then developers will identify opportunities to grow
and integrate system capabilities
9. Roadside Carpooling
SFBay daily: 12,500 people, 4,470 cars avoided, 47.7 tons of carbon
$180 million in annual operating costs per year for SFMTA
Self-sustaining, zero capital investment, running for 40 years
10. Carma Carpooling
Real-time awareness of supply and demand
Automated matching with neighbors / colleagues
Patented technology to GPS verify vehicle occupancy in real-time
11. Carma is Legal Ridesharing
Transportation
Network Companies
Ridesharing
Taxis are great, but we are 100% focused on the commute
12. Connected Commuting
Paul | Sean
Open APIs for real-time sharing of locations and occupancy
Real-time toll discounts and alerts for verified carpools
Real-time SOV / HOV travel times
13. Carma SFBay
World’s first public-private partnership of real-time ridesharing
15. Carma ATX
World’s first program for occupancy-verified toll discounts
16. Carma Houston
Districts; Energy Corridor, Uptown, Westchase, Memorial City, Downtown
Private; Clear Channel, Texas Taxi, Ridescout, NuRide
Public agencies; TxDOT, METRO, HGAC, City of Houston