Sep 21
Resolving the State-City Tension in Autonomous Vehicle Regulation
States write the laws. Cities bear the consequences.
4 min read
The MEMO BY JINHUA ZHAO
Actionable Insights On AI, Mobility & Cities
For transportation professionals and policy makers who want to understand what actually works, what’s not, and what might come next
Sep 20
Two Types of AI in Transportation
Sep 02
A Transit Playbook for Mid-Size Cities
How Arlington, Texas, with 400,000 people, 99 square miles, 3 failed transit votes, built citywide public transit for a fifth of the cost
6 min read
Sep 02
Your Gas Tax Is Going to Zero.
Oregon DOT Spent 25 Years Building the Replacement: Road Usage Charge
6 min read
Sep 02
The US Transit Fiscal Cliff
Nine Months On: Chicago has climbed off. San Francisco is about to ask its voters for a rope.
7 min read
Sep 02
Canada Carries Twice the Transit Ridership Per Capita:
Lessons from Vancouver and Toronto
3 min read
Sep 02
The 40,000-Death Problem the SELF DRIVE Act Could Solve
Human drivers never pool their hard-won lessons; AV fleets could, if the law let it. One Car’s Crash Should Be Every Fleet’s Lesson.
16 min read
Sep 01
Inside Transport for London’s Secret Sauce
How TfL Got London’s Businesses to Fund a £19B Railway
8 min read
Sep 01
Research Stack Powering the Waymo Autonomous Vehicle
Drago Anguelov, Head of Research at Waymo to unpack the AI behind autonomous driving: 3D Sensing & Spatial Reasoning, AI foundation models and Social Intelligence.
8 min read
Sep 01
Integrating Autonomous Vehicles and Public Transit
Singapore as A Case Study of the "Expand First-Mile access" Strategy
3 min read
Sep 01
Six Governance Models for AV Deployment in Cities
We’ve studied global experiments in London, Boston, Singapore, Stockholm, and beyond—and developed six governance models for AV deployment
2 min read
Aug 28
Who’s in Charge? Human Agency in AV Deployment
When you step into an autonomous vehicle (AV), you relinquish lower-level controls—acceleration, braking, lane changes. Most riders barely
3 min read