- CEO of The Alliance for Transportation Innovation says we’re “on the cusp of being able to accelerate deployment in a way that will transform society for the better”
- Assistant director of connected and automated transportation strategy at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute points to humans being worse at operating vehicles, and that automation is better than humans
- A senior research scientist at Texas A&M says we need to focus on the human behaior, that automobile automation is to make…
Category Archives: transportation safety
TX Attorney General Opinion. Big Trucks. Overweight Truck Enforcement. 4 Key Points.
Texas Attorney General Opinion, KP-0189, answers this question from the Liberty County Attorney:
Whether an elected constable and deputy constables may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight- enforcement officer under Transportation Code chapter 621
What does the Opinion say?
- A Sheriff’s deputy is specifically listed in Chapter 621 of the Transportation Code to serve as wieght-enforcement officers & there is no prohibition of…
Local TREND. Infrastructure Impact Fees. What? How? Who is paying the fee?
Where: San Francisco Board of Supervisors
What’s an infrastructure impact fee? a fee to to ameliorate the impacts of ride share
What 5 impacts do ride share have on local government?
- reduced pulic transportation revenue
- increased traffic congestion
- increased traffic safety issues from collisions
- increased traffic safety issues for pedestrian safety
- increased road wear and tear
What entities are a proposed infrastructure impact fee to be levied against? Ride Share
5 Points. Saguaro Cactus State Autonomous Vehicle Executive Order. Copy it for your State.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey revised Executive Order: 2018-04 on autonmous vehicles includes:
- follow applicable traffic laws and regulations of Arizona and the federal government
- fully autonomous vehicles, with no driver in the vehicle, and on pulic roads must:
- written statement to AZ Department of Transportation (AZDOT)
- or, within 60 days of this order provide a written statement
- waivers from the National Highway Safety Administration will be recognized
- autonomous vehicle failures must…
3 New Issues Raised by Sheriffs On Texas Bullet Train Path. New Sheriff Coalition.
New Sheriff Coalition: Sheriffs from Grimes, Navarro, Freestone, Limestone, Leon, Madison, Waller, and Ellis counties
Issues that the Sheriff’s raise about the high speed rail in Texas?
- Which law enforcement agency is repsonsible for patrolling the track?
- “Who’s going to be responsible for hazmat emergency services if it derailed over there?”
- Has there been a survey of emergency response teams and hospitals along the track, is fire or hospital distance and response impacted?
3 Statements from Sheriffs On Texas Bullet Train Path. New Sheriff Coalition.
New Sheriff Coalition: Sheriffs from Grimes, Navarro, Freestone, Limestone, Leon, Madison, Waller, and Ellis counties
Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell says high speed rail will:
- slow down response times
- No representative from high speed rail has talked to the sheriffs
- cost of increased patrols along the train route
KBTX Texas | Local sheriffs concerned about public safety along proposed bullet train route
KWTX 10 | Central Texas sheriffs join coalition to address high speed rail…
TREND forecast: Automobile Recalls & Ride Share. Legislative Solutions.
Safety and ride share is everywhere:
- California requirement on a lower lood alcohol level standard
- Arizona talking legislating car seat requirements and ride share drivers
- And now….this….
Prohibiting ride share vehicle operations if the vehicle has an active recall notice.
How would this work? Recalls are easily tackable via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
KTVU Fox 2 | Recalls among Uber & Lyft cars pose safety risk on roadways
Business TREND. New Sharing Economy. Scooter Sharing + 3 Ordinances/Laws/Regs for Scooters.
The new business: scooter sharing via Bird
Launch city: Santa Monica CA
Seed funding: Yes, $15M to expand nation wide
The laws/regulations/ordinances at play:
- Do scooters need permits to park?
- Do scooters need permits to park on sidewalks?
- Do scooter sharing comapnies need a permit? Satan Monica wants it to have a permit like a food trailer vendor.
- What kind of local government/scooter sharing compoany data sharing arrangement can be had?
Legal Trend = Legislative TREND. Sunshine States Seeks Stop Private Passenger Rail. 3 Key Points to Be Up to Speed.
The nationa’s only privately funded passenger rail: Florida’s All Aboard Florida’s Brightline venture, a high-speed train that would connect Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando with an expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando
Who brought suit to stop the privately funded rail? 2 Florida counties + Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida
What are the complaints?
- That federal agencies did not sufficiently assess the project’s environmental impacts and risk…
Local Trend. Ordinances on Robot Delivery Services. 5 Bits informed:intel.
The City: San Francisco
The ordinances: Address “cargobots” on city sidewalks and place these 5 limitations:
- Companies can have 3 robots a piece
- 9 total robots for the entire city
- bots will be relegated to low population industrial areas
- constant human monitoring
- Speed limit of 3 miles an hour