Rethinking urban mobility | Ryan Chin | TEDxBoston

Smart Cities: Sustainable Urban Mobility-on-Demand. Ryan Chin explains how a fleet of sharable, collapsible, rechargeable CityCars, GreenWheel bicycles, and RoboScooters can transform transportation in our most congested cities by operating within an intelligent, wireless grid that understands when, where, and how we want to travel.
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[@caucasoomena6036]

As a civil engineer student that really want's to think about the future of urban mobility in my city, i found this amazing, thank you

[@edgardocordova5375]

Wow, thx for this exciting vision

[@uws75th]

Amazing presentation.. every idea is creative, credible, and down to earth...this is the best conference I have ever seen on future of transportation..

[@UrbanMechanic]

I admire this project, not only because I embrace many of the concepts and propositions he presented, but he presents the notion as a package, very well. The future of mobility is (networking, sharing, automating, integrating, and incentive/impact priced) thus creating simplicity, choice, and freedom while also providing the solution to the many mobility-related problems we face presently. I believe he even hits the nail on the head he talks about corner markets and bus stops as nodes and hubs.

[@desiganmit]

Is that 11 years ago?

[@UrbanMechanic]

The automobile industry has enough engineers within its ranks to know that if they want their product to have a future on an increasingly urban, resources-deprived, space-deprived planet...then this is perhaps their savior!

[@kolloduke3341]

WOW! thank you from a cyclist living on the Isle of Skye ..

[@Dragon_rls]

WAY TO GO CORKY!!!!!!!! THAT M.I.T. ED REALLY DID YOU SOME GOOD.

[@petesig93]

First mile; last mile....... BICYCLES!

[@aaron___6014]

Peter Signorini why would I ride to my car by bicycle? ;)

[@mrjamesprince]

I live in Boston, it snows a lot here sir 😊

[@sacredthyme4617]

i want to join. what city. or area of seattle does this? = i will move there.

[@UrbanMechanic]

Further, I would suggest that regulating price may not be the most important or effective variable in optimizing the transportation. And multi-mode dependence is definitely not effective if more than one mode requires a vehicle; and the function is high-frequency (i.e. daily) routine

[@rhoden23]

Was the prototype ever built?

[@DaveFlash]

Watch this right after listening to "Full-length recording of Steve Jobs speaking at the IDCA conference in 1983"

[@niintyhma]

Since when was "auto industry on the decline" like the lady sez in the beginning?

[@aaron___6014]

Can you date these super old talks in the title. 2009 was so long along.

[@ericdew2021]

Encouraging people to use a vehicle to help move vehicles from one place to where demand is needed doesn't work because the price variance is too small. If the pricing variance is large, then people will do it for the opportunity to "earn" money for moving a vehicle. But having a large variance implies a high price at some location, which would deter legitimate use (versus the not-so-legitimate "arbitrage" use of moving the car). Best is just have autonomous vehicles self move during the early morning hours (3-4am). In other words, people aren't going to go out of their way to use an autonomous vehicle to some undesired destination just to save 30¢. Give them $30, they'll do it, but then you lose money.

[@TheGodlike300]

this is from 2009, cut them some slack

[@ericdew2021]

@@TheGodlike300 The economic incentive of getting people to do things with discounts or points or whatever have been around for almost the whole of human civilization. The point I was making was that the economic incentive isn't worth the effort, and it may never be, for local transportation. It has very little to do with the technology.

[@C4MMU5]

If I were the cief of the world this would have been reality looong ago

[@kutay.t]

This guy looks like Japanese Elon Musk.

[@stathisxanthopoulos1933]

what happened with this program after 12 years ?

[@handoftheking4123]

Good luck with this. You only go up against the real power of auto, petroleum, and infrastructure dynasties that control local govts.