Monthly Archives: December 2016

Finger Print Compromise from Maryland. The Nuts & Bolts from Legislators & Regulators.

The Legislative standard: No finger print requirement for ride share, if ride share comapnies could shoe regulators that their background checks were just as effective.

The regulators respond with: Increased safety measures and reporting requirements for ride share companies, such as:

  • Annual background checks on all drivers

  • Auditing and accrediting by an arm of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners

  • Alerting regulators to any changes to their…

New Interim Director. Port of Galveston. 3 Keys Pieces Intel.

  • Effective 1/1/17 Deputy Port Director Peter Simons will be the interim port director
  • Simons will:
    • Re-organize port staff to effectively execute Board goals
    • Broaden Galveston’s cruise business
    • Broaden Galveston’s vehcile distribution center
  • The Port’s Board goals are to:
    • Grow & diversify  the cargo base
    • Use soil to fill in an unused ship slip to store cargo
    • Planning at strategic and tactical level

Houston Chronicle | Port of Galveston appoints interim director

Business Trend: Ride Share + Land Use for Business Expansion. Win for ride share. Win for Business.

Where: Nashville, TN

The Business Rethinking Land Use, Parking Requirements & Transportation: Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group

What did Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group Leverage to be granted a variance from parking space requirements for its building epxansion?  The unanimous variance was granted for TriStar to partner with ride share to “pay monthly rates for the commutes for 23 employees, equal to the number of parking spaces” lost to the building expansion

Nashville…

TREND: Ride Share Gets New Ally in Empire State + 1 Counter punch

The brewing industry joins law enforcement supporting a push to extend ride share statewide in New York.

Brewers support ride share because:

  • boost the local economy
  • promote safety
  • help minimize downtown parking concerns

The counter punch from an association representing the taxi industry:

“Calling an Uber shouldn’t be the same as calling a criminal,” said John Tomassi, president of the Upstate Transportation Association. 

WHAM ABC 13 Rochester | Brewing industry joins push for…

2 Reasons a Judge Questions Whether Taxis are Harmed in Ride Share Regulations.

The lawsuit: Federal lawsuit over whether California regulations on ride share unfairly disadvantage taxis

The issues raised by a Judge questioning whether ride share regulations harm taxi cabs:

  • “In economic regulation groups are favored all the time. It’s always about favoring one over the other. Animus is the purpose of harming a group, not favoring a group.”
  • favoritism toward Uber and Lyft does not equal the sort of hostility toward taxi drivers

Courthouse News Service…

Business Trend: Ride Share for Big Trucks. Bonjour Regulatory Fight.

Which company is looking at a ride share for trucking? Amazon

Business goal for trucking:  global freight broker

How would ride share for rucking work?

  • App based 
  • Capable of matching available trucks to shipments
  • Could move cargo from a seaport hub to a distribution center or move cargo from a warehouse to a parcel-delivery facility.

What other transportation moves has Amazon made in 2016?

  • Leases on 40 cargo jets
  • Registered to arrange ocean cargo
  • Build out of its last mile…

Ride Share + Health Care. 3 Bytes Intel on this Nascent Partnership.

Business Partnership trend: Uber and MedStar are partnering to bring patients to appointments

How does this partnership stack up against using taxis to get to appointments?

  • Taxis are more expensive
  • Taxis are operationally more difficult to include in health care transportation
  • taxi drivers are said not to go the extra mile for patients

How does the partnership address low income patients without a smart phone? Healthcare providers request & manage rides on behalf of their patients

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