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"Research, Educate, Integrate, and Accelerate" |
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Call on CATES for technical and management consulting, policy advisory services, and contract research on small vehicle automation and electrification. |
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New Project! Electric Vehicle Charging in the I-5 Corridor
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CATES Appearances Recent Publications
Events Completed September 7, 2012 Conference, "Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation in Century 21" Opening remarks at Beyond Oil Conference from Event Chairman Steve Marshall Video recording of Beyond Oil Conference, thanks to OneToTheWorld.com and Seattle Center Foundation. Access to specific presentations (slides on split screen) available via "Content on Demand" tab below viewing window in the conference video: >>Follow up on Beyond Oil by conservation-minded law firm Graham & Dunn >>Report on Beyond Oil by Mallory Smith in The Futurist Blog Participants in our July 18, 2011 workshop to plan an Electric Mobility Demonstration Project, conducted jointly with Institute for Environmental Research and Education. Other from CATES "Automating Your Ride" by "Expanding Public Transit by Changing Its Definition" Comments of John Niles for the Puget Sound Regional Council General Assembly, April 25, 2013 Letter to Governor Jay Inslee: Steps for the Governor to Transform Transportation CATES presentation April 18, 2011 to HUD Region 10 Administrator Published short essays by Steve Marshall From others Seminal 2010 book from MIT Press: Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Mobility for the 21st Century by William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns "Climate Change and
Rice-Stanton Transportation Governance Reform project, 2006
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Above is the cover of the university-level text book by CATES Executive Research Director John Niles and his colleague Bern Grush at Harmonize Mobility, Inc. Click on the picture to reach the order page at https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-end-of-driving/niles/978-0-12-815451-9. This book is well-deployed in the Puget Sound region, including University of Washington Library, Washington State DOT internal library, and Puget Sound Regional Council information center. Free chapter summaries at http://endofdriving.org CATES -- Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions -- is a non-profit research & development organization based in Western Washington State. Our mantra is at the top of this page: "Research, Educate, Integrate, and Accelerate." There are many diverse threads to integrate! New Program of CATES: Assisting transportation organizations plan for practical, cost-effective implementation of battery-electric, vertical take-off and landing, regional urban air mobility services.Autonomous Vehicle Project in SeaTac, Washington City of SeaTac, Washington is exploring autonomous vehicle applications for community benefit with consulting assistance from CATES Described in the June 2018 issue of Seattle Met magazine! City of SeaTac engaged the Center for Advanced Transportation and Energy Solutions (CATES) in 2017-18 to conduct research on the viability of the City becoming a Center of Municipal Excellence in autonomous, driver-less vehicle deployment for cost-effective public benefit. A primary recommendation of this technology application explored for short-term deployment potential is small, quiet, electric shuttles connecting light rail stations and transit centers with residential neighborhoods. Connections to community facilities such as recreation centers, schools, medical clinics could also be provided. Vehicles such as these have the potential to provide mobility that is safer, less expensive, and non-polluting compared to today�s available alternatives. CATES developed an Action Plan document that provides guidance to the City on whether and how to proceed on developing and implementing processes of learning, teaching, fundraising, and procurement of new technology applications for using high-tech autonomous vehicles to provide better mobility in the City of SeaTac. Active engagement and collaboration was sought with citizen and business interests, neighboring jurisdictions, Port of Seattle, King County Metro, Sound Transit, non-governmental technology or mobility providers, and others like members of the ACES Northwest Network who step forward with an interest in this topic. All of the work in this project is consistent with and supportive of the June 7, 2017 State of Washington Executive Order 17-02 on autonomous vehicle testing and technology. City Council voted resolution wrapping the project is posted here. * * * * Earlier, CATES contributed to an integrated assessment (IA) of the automated, connected electric vehicle's contribution to transportation sustainability. This project was funded by the University of Michigan Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute and carried out in partnership with the Connected Vehicle Proving Center at University of Michigan - Dearborn. The public kick-off for the event was September 7, 2012 at the Beyond Oil Conference at Seattle Center with video recordings made and posted on the left hand side of this page. The final IA report, "Automated, Connected, and Electric Vehicles: An Assessment of Emerging Transportation Technologies and a Policy Roadmap for More Sustainable Transportation" is available by clicking here. As shown in the following chart depicting data from a sample of 6,000 households in the central Puget Sound region, the travel mode share in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area is dominated by motor vehicle use, so the importance of public and private policy to make cars be safer and generate lower emissions gives impetus to the focus of CATES:
Source: http://blog.psrc.org/2015/03/transit-work-trips-increasing-to-seattles-core-centers/ We are consistent in all our work with existing approved plans on issues outside of our project scope such as land use pattern/density, non-motorized transportation modes, passenger railroad modes, water ferries, and aviation.
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Contacts John Niles, Steve Marshall, Tony Billera, Sr. Director Joseph Rosmann, External Links End of Driving from Grush Niles Associates, Seattle and Toronto Thinking Highways magazine (Note cover story, bottom left) Securing America's Future Energy Ride service Lyft and its public policy stance Connected Vehicle Proving Center at University of Michigan - Dearborn Western Washington Clean Cities Program and presentations from the TRB-AUVSI Road Vehicle Automation Symposium, July 2016 Canadian Automated Vehicles Center of Excellence Electrification Roadmap and Fleet Electrification Roadmap by Electrification Coalition. Video from Google describing its self-driving car:
Video from Volvo describing its work in vehicle automation:
Video from Hyundai promoting available driver assistance automation in its Genesis model vehicles:
Insights About Telematics (Daily electronic newsletter crowd-sourced from Twitter) Thurston Regional Planning Council Plan for Sustainable Development The U.S. DOT Transportation and Climate Change Clearinghouse Daily computer-generated compilation of news stories "Noted by CATES" as crowd-sourced from Twitter. The real-time status of road traffic and public transit (mostly running on roads) is available here:
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