The Tessels in Tunnels, the Lost Vegus Loop

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i'm just curious what your thoughts are onn that specific. We've got personal rapid transitor purity systems, you know, all over the world,. dating back to the 19 wat sixties or seventies when west virginia built its purity system. The hetro airport has autonomous pods that go between a parking lot and the terminal - they're not designed to be the most efficient transit systems. They're there for pazas and really nothing else. And so i do roll my eyes any of these p r t systems. Everyone thinks they're going to be able to reinvent it because people like personalized vehicles. But ultimately, mass transit is about scale. It's about efficiencies its

Transit advocates have made autonomous vehicles something of a boogeyman lately, framing the emerging technology as a way to perpetuate the car's mobility monopoly and starve public transit of funding. In reality, transit is one of the most compelling applications and automation is a huge opportunity to dramatically improve public transit. To help explain this opportunity, Nathaniel Horadam of the Center for Transportation and the Environment joins the show to discuss a light-rail style automated bus rapid transit project he's been working on, and the automated transit opportunity more broadly.