Memos

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