A New Application for Bus Rapid Transit in the Transportation Industry?

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A dedicated guide way, first of all, means it's the perfect place to start on this vehicle platform. You're seeing talk in the freight space or, you know, i think you guys inetsif you've done cavenu net or cavenu yet and michigan. The biggest difference between them is capacity. Light rail typically has one conductor at the very front of the vehicle. Bus rapid transit can have a 60 foot articulated but the bendy buses, tht you might recognize,. In this case, they run those, but they also want to run forty foot buses.

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.