Transportation

The essential question being whether they can be expected to completely avoid fatalities or whether it’s good enough that they reduce them.

This session will examine two transformative trends. The first is the rise of the sharing economy, private sector ride-hailing services, autonomous vehicles and associated web-based tools for trip planning, ride hailing and fare payment.

Seattle council members on Monday approved changes to the parking code that they hope will ultimately tackle their carbon-free, pedestrian-and-bike-friendly, affordable vision for the city.

Copenhagenize offers a blueprint for how cities can welcome the bicycle-and all the positive outcomes that being a biking-centric city brings.

Cruise is disputing the ticket.

It was a rulemaking slog, one that some in the industry criticized as an example of typical Golden State overreach.

In the rapidly shifting transportation landscape, even the Goliaths of the rental car industry — some of the best-known brands in the world — worry about being left behind.

"I am optimistic that, as has happened in other sectors that faced transitions, the migration, although painful, will ultimately be beneficial. And new jobs will be created maintaining those cars."

Obviously, overhauling the street for transit and safe walking and biking would be a more complicated undertaking than snapping a bridge on top of the road. But the benefits would be much, much greater and would compound over time.

The Chamber, perhaps understandably, offered the status quo opinion; the opinion that we need wide roads and lots of excess capacity for healthy businesses. Yet, as American cities all over the country modernize their infrastructure to include bike and walking facilities, data and research find exactly the opposite.