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In August 2018, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report exploring the potential deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. This report, AVs in the Pacific Northwest: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...

In Spring 2020, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report titled "Perfecting Pilots with Policy: New Mobility and AV Urban Delivery Pilot Project Assessment". This report aimed to determine the lessons learned, emerging trends ...

In March 2019, the University of Oregon's Urbanism Next Center released a report that highlights global efforts to improve curb management in response to the changing demand for public right-of-way access. It explores ways cities can prepare for the deployment ...

Through 2018, the US Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the USDOT co-hosted information-gathering sessions to facilitate discussion regarding how autonomous vehicles (AVs) could increase employment opportunities for ...

In October 2018, the US Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the USDOT co-hosted an information-gathering session to facilitate discussion among the disability community regarding AV policy, and particularly how AVs ...

Excerpted from code: Sec. 37.77 Purchase or lease of new non-rail vehicles by public entities operating a demand responsive system for the general public. (a) Except as provided in this section, a public entity operating a demand responsive system for ...

On March 5, 2012 the State Legislature passed a bill aimed at eliminating existing regulatory barriers to offering usage-based automobile insurance policies. It also authorized the insurance commissioner to approve the offering of such policies. [1] Usage-based ...

The Federal Transit Agency (FTA) announced on July 31, 2017 revised Private Investment Project Procedures (PIPP) for public transportation capital projects that would also expand to funding and finance for all stages of transportation projects from planning ...

In a "dear colleague letter" dated December 5, 2016, then Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx acknowledged the innovation of TNC public-private partnerships. He reminded them, however, of Title VI and ADA requirements as enumerated in the attached ...

In January 2020, the USDOT released the Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated Vehicles 4.0 (AV 4.0) report, which aims to provide a shared approach to to AV technologies across as US governments. The report is structured ...