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Released in late 2018, Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicle 3.0 (AV 3.0) serves as a companion piece to Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety (AV 2.0). AV 3.0 establishes six “automation principles,” along with ...

PRESTO, a fare-free electric autonomous shuttle service, has launched in Bishop Ranch, an office park in San Ramon. PRESTO shuttles operate on a loop with four stops within Bishop Ranch. Customers can hail the autonomous vehicles (AVs) using a smartphone ...

The Municipal Transportation Agency voted to allow private, corporate shuttles to use up to 125 bus stops, some simply municpal curb space, some shared Muni bus stops to pick up and drop off employees. Each time the the corporate shuttle picks up or drops ...

The purpose of the Private For Hire Transportation Program (PFHT) is to provide for the safe, fair and efficient operation of private for-hire transportation services. Services include Taxi Cabs, Transportation Network Companies, Limousines and Party ...

Status report on the Private For Hire Transportation Innovation Pilot Program for reporting usage and trip data. The excerpt below from:  Portland Bureau of Transportation.  PFHT Pilot Status Report July 2015.  Private for Hire Transportation Innovation ...

The Portland City Council, acting through the Office of the Mayor and the Office of Commissioner Steve Novick, convened the Private For-Hire Transportation Innovation Task Force (Task Force) in December 2014 to review and evaluate the service performance ...

Rules governing the Private For Hire Transportation Program (PFHT) whose purpose is to provide for the safe, fair and efficient operation of private "for-hire" transportation services. These include taxis, limousines, executive sedans, town-cars, tour ...

Before Portland agreed to let ridesourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft operate within city limits, it implemented a 120-day pilot program to evaluate the companies’ performance and help develop a permanent set of regulations. The Portland Bureau ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners has proposed a new, 50-cent tax on ridehailing trips that begin or end in Cook County. There is already a 52-cents-per-ride tax imposed on these ridehailing services by the City of Chicago. A motion was made by ...

The Chicago TOD code permits provision of carsharing spaces, as alternatives for car ownership, as means to fulfill TOD requirements