September 30, 2016
Sustainable Transportation Lab goes to the ballgame
On September 29, the Sustainable Transportation Lab headed to Safeco Field (via the Link Light Rail, of course) to watch the Seattle Mariners take on the Oakland A’s. It was a chance for new and continuing students and recent alumni to get to know one another. With the Mariners in the wildcard race, it was…
September 23, 2016
How much? How soon? A little realism about automated vehicles
I was asked this week to comment on two visions/proposals for future automated transportation systems, from two different organizations. You can find some of my reactions in coverage by KUOW and the Washington Post, but I thought it would be good to elaborate on my thoughts here and talk about what these two proposals get…
September 8, 2016
Two new articles on electric vehicle charging
A new issue of Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board has just been published and contains two papers by Sustainable Transportation Lab researchers. The papers use different data sources, but both concern the decision of electric vehicle (EV) drivers whether to plug in or not in a given situation. Understanding this decision…
September 7, 2016
A revolution or a job killer?
Ride sourcing services, such as Uber and Lyft, are always willing to reduce the amount they pay to drivers. This hope could soon be achieved to an even greater degree by Uber: Uber announced last month that it would be bringing autonomous Volvo XC90 SUVs to Pittsburgh. In order to supply self-driving services in main…
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