One service in Jersey City, NJ, for example, has serviced more than 1 million rides since February 2020 through their on-demand microtransit system – a service model developed to fill gaps in tradi

In a RABA Research poll that comes just a few months after lawmakers in PA House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow autonomous vehicle companies to test their cars on public roads without a human in the car to take over in case of emergency, more than half of survey respondents say they are still either "somewhat uncomfortable" or "very uncomfortable" sharing the road with "highly automated, driverless vehicles." Sixty percent said they would be more likely to support a politician who supported requiring a human safety operator for driverless cars and trucks, although 64% were also unaware that PA was considering new self-driving testing regulations at all. The bill is up for consideration in PA Senate this fall. Fully autonomous testing is legal in several other states already, and some PA Senate leadership say they're eager to keep up in order to maintain Pittsburgh's status as a hub for the autonomous industry. The research notes that Pennsylvanians' comfort level with self-driving vehicles decreases as vehicles get larger – with 38% comfortable sharing the road with driverless small cars, but only 17% comfortable sharing the road with autonomous trucks – which are actually arguably the furthest along among autonomous vehicle testing in our state to date thanks to Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking companies like Aurora and Locomation (which hopes to deploy its autonomous trucks as soon as 2023). On the flip side, 31% of Pittsburghers polled by PennDOT actually hold a "very positive" opinion of autonomous vehicles – compared to only 11% of Pennsylvanians not in Pittsburgh feeling the same way. PennDOT researchers this year also found that many people are confused about what automation really means, as well, so the regulator is expected to publish the full results of its survey along with some definitions of what automation looks like for Pennsylvania's roads sometime this fall.

Last week, an editor from The National Observer reviewed the latest 2021 American Community Survey data from the U.S.

Back-to-office strategies include a lot of things to lure people back.

TNU Issue Link Path:  http://otma-pgh.org/tnu/issue/2022-10-03 Topics include our updated Multimodal Resources Map, Dashcam app for bicyclists, Walkable communities with easy access to transit, University of Pittsburgh groundbreaking, Hill District RAISE grant

Pittsburgh Regional Transit has announced the return of the outbound P10 Allegheny Valley Flyer to its regular route upon the reopening of the Highland Park Bridge ramp to northbound Route 28.

"I don't think everything will snap back to how it looked in 2019, but it's also been very striking how the pandemic and the isolation really taught us how important In-person collaboration and con