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+1 City Adds Airport Fees to Ride Share

The city pursuing fees on ride share vehicles at its airport: Juneau, Alaska

What fees are Juneau’s airport board proposing?

  • $100/ year for rideshare companies  to operate on airport property
  • $3 surcharge on each fare to and from the airport

What fees do taxis pay at Juneau’s airport? $150/ year per vehicles without any additional ride fee

St. Louis Post Dispatch | Juneau airport considering fees for Lyft, Uber rides

Regulatory Trend. State Imposes Ride Share Standards. Taxi Standards Lowered. The Show Me State Shows You How. New 3rd Party Vendor Opportunities Abound.

In repsonse to statewide rideshare regulations, Missouri’s Taxi Commission lowered these taxi regulations to provide parity:

  • lowered the amount of liability insurance taxicabs must have from $400,000 to $125,000 per accident
  • reduced annual fees paid by taxi companies and drivers
  • removed the requirement of a human answering phones at all operation hours
  • allows for 3rd party vendors to vehicle and meter inspections & background checks

St. Louis Business Journal | Taxi commission eases…

Business Trend + Lege Trend. Store Workers Make Deliveries on Commute. Who is liable if there's an accident?

The business trend: WalMart is leveraging store worker commutes to make deliveries

Lege trend: Is the delivery during the commute within the scope of employment? Is the employee on the clock? What background checks should be required? 

WallStreet Journal | Wal-Mart Tries Using Store Workers to Deliver Online Orders

4 Regulatory Trends for Self Driving Cars

  • How statutes assign liability for an accident involving a self driving?
  • Are manufacturers liable or the software engineers or both?
  • Do local governments need to cange stop lights and traffic movement for improved self driving car efficiency?
  • If self driving cars improve transportation times, as science indicates they do, will the local and state economy benefit?

Findlaw | Technologist | Can One Driverless Car Change Auto Liability?

Lege Trend Fruition. What happened and didn't happen with high speed rail in Texas Legislature?

  • Bills to stop high speed rail: No
  • High Speed Rail Specific Bills:  2
    • ​ Require reimbursement to local law enforcement for high speed rail security
    •  No State Funding for high speed rail

Response to the legislative action from high speed rail opponents: 

  • Even if no bill stopped high speed rail,
  • The high speed rail porject does not have adewuate funding nor explicit eminent domain authority

Response to legislative action from high speed rail:

““As the Texas Legislature completes its…

Lege Trend. Silver State Adds 2 New Requirements to Ride Share.

State: Nevada

The 2 ride share provisions that Nevada House has included in the state ride share bill:

  • Increased insurance coverage
    • minimum of $300,000 in coverage when using the app
    • minimum of $1.5 million when providing rides to passengers
  • Permit for drivers from the Nevada Transportation Authority

Las Vegas Review Journal | Bill could force Uber, Lyft out of Nevada

Pro-Con Arguments Used in the East to Support Direct Auto Sales + A compromise deal

State: Connecticut

What are the arguments supporting direct sales of vehicles in Connecticut?

  • Opposing direct sales shows an opposition to technology and dissaudes tech start ups from 
  • Denying Connecticut residents the ability to buy directly in Connecticut costs Connecticut jobs and revenue
  • neighboring state Massachusetts is getting the sales and the revenue

 

What are the arguments opposing direct sales in Connecticut?

  • job losses
  • job loss argument is maintained by auto dealers and…

State Senate Unanimously Votes Against Mileage Tax

State: Connecticut

Is the opposition uniform and bipartisan? yes

What triggered it? A federal subsidy to study a switch to mileage based taxation

What warning are some legislators offering? If there isn’t a transportation funding solution soon, the state moves closer to more tolls on highways

Connecticut Post | Senate votes to prohibit ‘mileage’ tax

 

Procurement Trend. State Department of Transportation Wants to Connect All Cars in a Work Zone

Where is this happening? Michigan

What company is the private partner with Michigan? 3M

What’s the collaborative goal?  “To implement connected vehicle technology on a stretch of work zone on Interstate 75 that is more than 3 miles long”

What is 3M bringing to the table in this partnership?

♦  Advanced all-weather lane markings

♦  Retroreflective signs with smart sign technology

♦  Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) devices for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

♦…