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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

KamaAina

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3. Or, How Can Transit Collaborate With the Coming Onslaught of Driverless Cars?

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Mar 25, 2016, 03:23 PM

Mar 2016

By focusing on high-speed service along key corridors, and having people take driverless cars to get to transit centers. The resulting network would look something like what Houston just came up with, although they obviously don't have the driverless car for the "last mile" yet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11302141

Or, by deploying driverless cars to serve low-density areas instead of clunky "flex" or "demand-response" routes that often require advance reservations. Here it's an Orlando suburb that is beta-testing the idea, with Uber instead of driverless.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11302165

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How Can Transit Compete With the Coming Onslaught of Driverless Cars? [View all] marmar Mar 2016 OP

Driverless cars will never replace public transit Warpy Mar 2016 #1

That Google car that hit a bus might set things back a bit. djean111 Mar 2016 #2

Or, How Can Transit Collaborate With the Coming Onslaught of Driverless Cars? KamaAina Mar 2016 #3