Transportation

Engineers with the Montana Department of Transportation say the installation of more roundabouts coming off Interstate 90 will make for more efficient traffic flow on one of Missoula’s busiest routes.

Within a couple of weeks, local Uber riders will be able to tap on the app’s upper-left menu to see an option called Rent, and then a map of what cars are available.

Sorry–that’s not how it works

Eviation’s Alice Commuter plane-the winner of the transportation category of Fast Company’s 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards-seats nine people and is entirely battery powered.

Critics of a transit referendum in Nashville see trains and buses as the transportation solutions of the past. According to this thinking, ride-hailing companies and self-driving cars are the future.

The recent pedestrian death by a self-driving Uber car brought renewed attention to a major problem in this nation, pedestrian deaths, which have risen from 4,000 to 6,000 annually in just 2 years!

Regulators in California are moving closer to allowing driverless cars to carry passengers, even without a backup driver present.

"Sometimes we will talk about it as if, ‘We have this self-driving car, we have this product.’ But with software updates, there’s a new vehicle every week."

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.