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Tag Archives: mobility
The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce
This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for Transportation Innovation and Opportunity (PTIO). The event took place at the Industry Innovation Center (formerly just NextEnergy) across from TechTown. … Continue reading
Posted in Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged amazon, amazon bid, amazon hq2, autonomous vehicles, bay area, cass corridor, economic development, Ford, garlin gilchrist, Gretchen Whitmer, jeff bezos, Midtown Detroit, mobility, nissan, smart city, sustainable mobility, talent attraction, talent retention, techtown, transit, transportation, wayne state university
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Gilbert’s Bedrock Is Beginning To Think Outside The Automobile
I attended an event last night hosted by Transportation Riders United in One Woodward. The second floor conference room has some great views of the city at sunset, thanks to Michigan legend Minoru Yamasaki‘s affinity for floor-to-ceiling windows. (Oh, I … Continue reading
Posted in Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged autonomous vehicles, bedrock, bedrock detroit, dan gilbert, Detroit, kevin bopp, minoru yamasaki, mobility, motor city freedom riders, new mobility, prasanth gururaja, Quicken Loans, royal transportation, shared use mobility center, transportation riders united, TRU
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Canada Trip III – Leaving Montreal
We leave Montreal today for Toronto, where we will begin the “extension” portion of our Canada program. Our Montreal trip took us to Publicis, a French-Canadian marketing, design, and communications agency that does work in Montreal and internationally; Voxco, a … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Canada, Cycling, Marketing, Urban Planning
Tagged anglophone, business, Canada, congestion, francophone, jeune chambre de commerce du quebec, marketing, mobility, montreal, multicultural marketing, publicis, quebec, quebecois, Toronto, urban growth, Urban planning, voxco
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Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow
No, it’s not a Potemkin Village in which erstwhile Governor Rick Snyder staged his great Austerity March for propaganda films. It’s the MCity Test Facility at the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor. The site, designed to test … Continue reading
Posted in Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged autonomous vehicles, AVs, Cruise, cruise automation, dedicated short range communications, DSCR, Ford, general motors, intelligent transportation systems, mobility, public transit, sustainable mobility, Tesla, transit, transportation, urban mobility, Waymo
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Tschö, Detroit!
Today I’m headed off on a multi-modal transit odyssey that will eventually land me in the Ruhrgebiet, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, as the first stop on a mobility study trip sponsored by the German-American Chambers of Commerce (GACC South in Atlanta, or, … Continue reading