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

    Oct 03
    Making AI Work In DOTs: 3 Levels of Action

    Making AI Work In DOTs: 3 Levels of Action

    From Individual Productivity to Project Teams to Organizational Change
    9 min read
    Sep 23
    New Generation Activity-Based Travel Demand Models: From Trips To Lives

    New Generation Activity-Based Travel Demand Models: From Trips To Lives

    A new generation of travel demand modeling is pushing toward much greater behavioral detail
    11 min read
    Sep 20
    Two Types of AI in Transportation: Fantastic AI and Grounded AI

    Two Types of AI in Transportation: Fantastic AI and Grounded AI

    What Transportation Professionals Should Learn and Do Now
    7 min read
    Sep 02
    A Transit Playbook for Mid-Size Cities

    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.

    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

    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:

    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

    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

    Inside Transport for London’s Secret Sauce

    How TfL Got London’s Businesses to Fund a £19B Railway
    8 min read
    Sep 01
    Integrating Autonomous Vehicles and Public Transit

    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

    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
    Sep 21
    Resolving the State-City Tension in Autonomous Vehicle Regulation

    Resolving the State-City Tension in Autonomous Vehicle Regulation

    States write the laws. Cities bear the consequences.
    4 min read