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Carsharing and Ridesharing

A school crosswalk busy with students and parents in a sea of cars.

Car-Based School Commutes Hurt Families with Kids

To create more equitable outcomes, the needs of parents with school-age children must be better addressed in future transportation solutions. At 8am any given school...

How Uber Drivers Can Help Us Plan Cities for Self-Driving Cars

Most recently I have taken on a new venture in which I am dedicating my career to helping cities plan for autonomous vehicles (AVs) and...

2016 Numbers: Sound Transit Riding High

Sound Transit is riding high with incredibly healthy ridership growth for 2016, buoyed in large part to the opening of three new light rail stations in...

Uber’s Hollow Promise For Cities

Uber has been in the news lately for offering cities a smidgen of their data on traffic patterns. Like so many things with Uber,...

Car2Go Going Head-To-Head With BMW’s ReachNow, But Will Structural Service Changes Have Desirable Outcomes?

The battle for the carsharing market is ratcheting up in Seattle. Car2Go plans to roll out higher end vehicles as part of its Seattle...

Map Of The Week: Reachnow Expands To All Of Seattle

In an announcement yesterday, BMW's Reachnow carsharing service is expanding its service area to cover all of Seattle and adding 180 new vehicles to...

Uber Endorses ST3: What This Means For The Future Of Transportation

On Monday, the ridesharing company Uber unexpectedly voiced their public support for Regional Proposition 1, also known as Sound Transit 3. The measure would...

Driverless Technology Can Bring A Golden Age Of Mass Transit

Not another day goes by without some transit detractor talking about how driverless vehicles will obviate the need for transit and big spending on...