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Maryland has a two step background check for ride share drivers that does not include fingerprinting. Here’s how it works:
This Maryland model is being considered in other states, because Maryland results include:
The District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT)is testing a pilot program to handle night life traffic.
The pilot program will include:
TXDOT proposes billboards rules that permit billboards to 85 feet high.
A Sunset bill author, TX Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville says:
What’s the property right issue at play? Existing billboards that were built under 1986 rules that had no height limitations
The…
What’s missing from most state and federal self driving car regulations and legislation? Big Trucks.
Self driving truck economuy is growing and the regulations and legislation are not keeping pace, or so say lawyer sin this field in California, the first state to implement self-driving car regulations.
Business Trend: Volvo says by 2019 it will stop making gas combustion engine cars
Regulatory Trend: California’s chief air-pollution regulator says he’s talking to the California Governor about phasing out combustion engines sometime 10 years in the future.
Can States phase out combustion engines? States can their own air pollution standards, but they need EPA approval
International Trend:
Wyoming Department of Trasnsportation is providing the public with access to a map of alternative vehcile fueling station.
Equipment World | Wyoming maps out sites for alternative vehicle fueling
Hyperloop does not have the policy foundation of other types of transportation system. This leaves 3 areas of policy wide open:
Dallas Morning News | Meet the Dallas urban planner behind Texas’ pursuit of the hyperloop