April 9, 2008.
California Office of Traffic Safety Summit
San Francisco, CA.
May 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
Bloomington, MN
June 23, 2009
Driving Assessment 2009
Big Sky, Montana
June 26, 2009
PRI World Congress
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 27, 2009
Day of Architecture
Utrecht, The Netherlands
July 13, 2009
Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP)
Phoenix, AZ.
August 12-14
Texas Department of Transportation “Save a Life Summit”
San Antonio, Texas
September 2, 2009
Governors Highway Safety Association Annual Meeting
Savannah, Georgia
September 11, 2009
Oregon Transportation Summit
Portland, Oregon
October 8
Honda R&D Americas
Raymond, Ohio
October 10-11
INFORMS Roundtable
San Diego, CA
October 21, 2009
California State University-San Bernardino, Leonard Transportation Center
San Bernardino, CA
November 5
Southern New England Planning Association Planning Conference
Uncasville, Connecticut
January 6
Texas Transportation Forum
Austin, TX
January 19
Yale University
(with Donald Shoup; details to come)
Monday, February 22
Yale University School of Architecture
Eero Saarinen Lecture
Friday, March 19
University of Delaware
Delaware Center for Transportation
April 5-7
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
McMurrin Lectureship
April 19
International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (Organization Management Workshop)
Austin, Texas
Monday, April 26
Edmonton Traffic Safety Conference
Edmonton, Canada
Monday, June 7
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Wednesday, July 6
Fondo de Prevención Vial
Bogotá, Colombia
Tuesday, August 31
Royal Automobile Club
Perth, Australia
Wednesday, September 1
Australasian Road Safety Conference
Canberra, Australia
Wednesday, September 22
Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s
Traffic Incident Management Enhancement Program
Statewide Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Wednesday, October 20
Rutgers University
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Piscataway, NJ
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre
Injury Prevention Forum
Toronto
Monday, May 2
Idaho Public Driver Education Conference
Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, June 2, 2011
California Association of Cities
Costa Mesa, California
Sunday, August 21, 2011
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Attitudes: Iniciativa Social de Audi
Madrid, Spain
April 16, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Gardens Theatre, QUT
Brisbane, Australia
April 17, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Centennial Plaza, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
April 19, 2012
Institute for Sensible Transport Seminar
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne, Australia
January 30, 2013
University of Minnesota City Engineers Association Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 31, 2013
Metropolis and Mobile Life
School of Architecture, University of Toronto
February 22, 2013
ISL Engineering
Edmonton, Canada
March 1, 2013
Australian Road Summit
Melbourne, Australia
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August 20th, 2009 at 10:51 am
they already have this where i live. it’s called a taxi.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Here in Seoul we call it public transport.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:28 am
I ride a bicycle but next month I will be getting a Velomobile Quest.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:30 am
David W, will that be a canadian built Quest velomobile, or an overseas version? It’s exciting news in the world of velomobile operators that Ray M. is going to be producing the Quest on this continent and at a very competitive price!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Thanks for the props Tom!
August 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
We’re not so far from this in terms of technological progress, but I reckon it’ll be a while before humans are out of the loop completely – the biggest problem being whether it’s reliable enough to not be supervised by a human. And until that day, we have to leave the human drivers with something substantial to do, otherwise a different problem to distraction occurs – underload.
We’ve seen design exercises like this before, but what’s interesting is how the timeframe is compressing – one of the early inspirations for my PhD was a concept car to celebrate 100 years of the automobile, back in 1996. At that time, they looked forward 100 years to come up with Concept 2096 (the best link for which I can find is http://www.bmiht.co.uk/catalogue/bmiht_item.php?id=2004~12~3533~001). It doesn’t look a million miles different from Mike and Maaike’s concept – except the idea’s been brought forward 50 years…
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:20 am
This whole thing is a complete fantasy. Yes, we may be getting close to having autopilot for cars, but I doubt we’ll ever take the driver out of the driver’s seat. Just look at planes. Theoretically it is possible for a plane to take off, fly, and land entirely on autopilot. Yet does anyone REALLY want to fly in a pilotless plane?
About the only driverless vehicles I’m aware of are some subway and monorail systems that are 100% automated, with the vehicles controlled via computer or remotely from a control room. But those are on a fixed track. All roads are utter chaos by comparison. Maybe a computer could take over driving 90% of the time, but I’d sure want a driver ready to take over when the alarms start blaring because the car’s computer decided to pull a Windows and crash.