Random collection of links to articles

2019

Governments:

• Cuomo: I Reached Out to Tesla to Help Fix the Subway System's Signal Problems
• Engineers to Pedestrians: No ‘Walk’ Signs for You!
• Senator Beach and the Georgia Senate Transportation hearing, March 12, 2019 on solar-powered mobility networks.

Self-driving cars

• Tesla Is Now America's Number One Premium Automotive Company, Outsells BMW, Lexus In Q4
• Waymo’s autonomous cars have driven 8 million miles on public roads
• $80 billion has been spent on self-driving cars with nothing to show for it.

Hyperloop

• Futuristic 'Hyperloop' system could cut Edinburgh to London journey time to half an hour
• US pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020 to include hyperloop simulator
• EuroTube
• Sydney to Melbourne in 40 MINUTES: Ultra high-speed trains could soon slash inter-state travel times across Australia with top speeds of more than 1220km/h

2018

Capital Investments:

• Morgan Stanley: Why Waymo Is Worth A Staggering $175 Billion Even Before Launching Its Self-Driving Cars
• McKinsey and Company: ‘A physical version of the Internet’: How Hyperloop could be the broadband of transportation
• $28 billion was invested in mobility startups in 2017
• 40x ROI on Kiva’s $775 sale to Amazon

JPods and podcars:

• JPods example networks in Tulsa
• JPods in Shaxian, China
• Red Bull TV, JPods starts at 10:25
• Podcars in Bengaluru
• Pod Taxis to be reality in City by 2019
• SkyTran in India with Reliance
• TransitX in Rhode Island.

Hyperloops:

• Governor Hogan, Maryland on building Hyperloop.
• Great Lakes Hyperloop Animation by HyperloopTT
• Richard Branson unveils new Dubai hyperloop venture to move freight at 760mph
• Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to charge $1 for a 150-mph Loop ride in LA
• Virgin Hyperloop One may invest $450 million for demo track in India
• CNN Dubai video
• DP World CargoSpeed
• Hyperloop One says Missouri route is economically viable
• Building in Dubai
• Dec 10 the Boring Company will open a network in LA

Week of June 11, 2018:

• Ukraine: HyperloopTT wins deal for commercial Hyperloop system in Ukraine
• India: Fadnavis wants to fast-track hyperloop project
• US: The Chicago Transit Authority Selects The Boring Company For New High-Speed Route

Congestion

• Cities Where It's Faster to Walk than Drive
• Japan H-Bahn network

Oil

• Global Growth at Risk From $100 Oil Next Year, BofAML Says

Traffic’s Mind-Boggling Economic TollIndia:

Jan 1. Will 2018 be the year of the pod for Bengaluru?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/driverless-cars-may-ferry-tha...

US:

• CNBC: Trump's leaked $1 trillion building plan is on the right track:  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/trumps-leaked-infrastructure-plan-on-rig...
• Ford City of the Future . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1vpVgHH0N8&feature=youtu.be
• Traffic’s Mind-Boggling Economic Toll, $305 bilion per year.
• "Americans are paying about $86 million per day more to fill up their tanks than they were a month ago.”
• http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article211117...
• Are electric cars worse for the environment? Crunch the numbers, and it looks like all those subsidies might be counterproductive.
• Why It's So Expensive to Build Urban Rail in the U.S.

Capital:

• There’s Never Been More Money Pouring Into Mobility Startups
• STUDY: Apps like Uber and Lyft create traffic congestion
• Approximately $28 billion was invested in mobility startups in 2017, mostly in Ride Services. These Ride Service have improved customer service by providing better service than the subways and buses but increased NYC congestion by 3-4%.
• https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/how-to-fix-new-york-citys...

Self-Driving Cars

• Most Big Cities Are Planning for Autonomous Vehicles 50% up from 10% are planning for self-driving cars

Graphene

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02773-w

Risks:

• Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html?...

Politics:

• Democrat Senators on Infrructure Plan
• Democrat Senate on Infrastructure Week

Team:

• GRIT: PERSEVERANCE AND PASSION FOR LONG-TERM GOALS

Hyperloop:

• 30-second video of Maryland’s Governor Hogan on building Hyperloop.
• Great Lakes Hyperloop Animation by HyperloopTT
• Richard Branson’s video from today.
• Richard Branson unveils new Dubai hyperloop venture to move freight at 760mph
• Dirk CNN May 2018
• Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to charge $1 for a 150-mph Loop ride in LA
  Getting from Dodger Stadium to LAX in 10 minutes? Sold.

Gas Prices:

• "Americans are paying about $86 million per day more to fill up their tanks than they were a month ago.”
• CrudeOilAre  you  ready  for  triple  digit  oil  prices?April  2018
• https://seekingalpha.com/article/4180870-oil-short-term-pain-long-term-g...

A rail safety system gone badly off track

Climate Change:

• Melting Arctic sends a message: Climate change is here in a big way

Transit:

• People in Transit-Rich Neighborhoods Don't Spend Less on Transportation

Military:

• 52% of US casualties are received delivering goods.

Factory Automation:

• Weasel
•  

Climate:

• Losing Earth: The Decade We, Almost Stopped Climate Change

Red Bull TV: JPods starts at 10:30
https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1N7M58EWS2111/transportation

Coverage of Shaxian TV
https://vimeo.com/251842394

Oliver on the SkyRide:  https://vimeo.com/241988995
Claudia on the SkyRide:  https://vimeo.com/241988786

Video I typically use:
https://vimeo.com/151269750

Circulatory System:
https://vimeo.com/87069041
remove Medtronics

Showing this density in part of the video might be good.
https://vimeo.com/98078252
https://vimeo.com/97978990

https://vimeo.com/225683614

Collision avoidance
https://vimeo.com/212182738

People as pods
https://vimeo.com/203548646

Factory showing full size vehicle
https://vimeo.com/111388250

Scale Model
https://vimeo.com/114357812

TV Coverage in Bengaluru
https://vimeo.com/248555393

KeyNote:
http://www.jpods.com/LMC/China/Shaxian/CN-Shexian-2018-01-25.key

2017

Hyperloop

• Elon Musk gets OK to begin digging for Hyperloop project in Maryland
• https://pakobserver.net/saudi-arabia-gcc-connected-ultra-fast-tube-transportation-system/
• http://www.businesstoday.in/buzztop/buzztop-technology/virgin-hyperloop-one-mumbai-pune-karnataka-route/story/264207.html
• https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/richard-bransons-virgin-group-invests-in...
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uae-declares-hyperloop-tt-most-innovative...

JPods and podcar networks

• Channel 9 Good News for Bengalurians
• Bengaluru TV coverage
• http://newsable.asianetnews.com/karnataka/after-metro-city-to-have-pod-taxi-by-2019
• http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/logistics/ultra-fairwood-bags-rapid-transit-project-in-uae/article9741616.ece
• https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2017/11/20/india-to-float-tender...
• https://www.openpr.com/news/826151/Increasing-Urban-Transport-Challenges...
• http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/270617/by-2018-ben...

RedBulll TV

• JPods section starts at about 10:20.
• https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1N7M58EWS2111/transportation

China:

• Shaxian

LGA

• LaGuardia Airport. 
• The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
• How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways

Access to resources:

• Students with and without the Internet:  https://www.facebook.com/JungleVT/videos/2002463276562171/

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-ban-the-bike-...

Yuan and Oil

• OPEC compliance soars to record - Bloomberg, Dec 16, 2017
• Non-Dollar Trading Is Killing the Petrodollar — And the Foundation of U.S.-Saudi Policy in the Middle East
• The Yuan Could Replace The U.S. Petrodollar As World's Reserve Currency - And That's Bullish For Gold
• China's Gold-Backed Oil Futures: A Threat To The U.S. Dollar, A Boon For Gold
• Dollar value drop? China will 'compel' Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan
• China's Push to Trade Oil in Yuan Faces a Key Hurdle
• China will 'compel' Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan — and that's going to affect the US dollar

https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113426/if-saudi-arabia-situation-doe...

Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
'Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap'

Anger builds over pollution in New Delhi

Delhi pollution: Every breath you take
From premature births and underweight children to a flare-up in arthritis to increased risk of stroke. A report on how the city’s air has become a silent killer.

New Delhi’s pollution is off the charts — and it’s making residents ill

Wealth from the Many to the Few

• History Suggests the Hyperloop Is an Uncertain Promise for Future Cities
• In the 1950s, city planners used hyperbole when they suggested that highways could act as a panacea, unclogging the arteries of unhealthy cities. Many of these federally-funded highway projects decimated African-American communities. Automobiles and highways led to suburbanization and urban decline.
• How to Decimate a City
• Stent (or Dagger?) in the Heart of Town: Urban Freeways in Syracuse, 1944-1967

Seeking Alpha

• It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like 1937