Following are news stories and links on how at least half of America's $1.7 trillion/year traffic costs will be converted into jobs, customer savings and profits:

• $425 billion per year for oil.                                              
• $871 billion per year in accidents, alternate data source.   
  • 40,100 road-deaths in 2017.
  • 2.31 million injuries in 2013.
• $305 billion per year in congestion.
• $109 billion per year in car damage from poor road maintenance.

Summary of the Speed and Scale of the changes coming by digitizing mobility:

• Tony Seba Future of Transportation as a Service
• McKinsey, The second great inflection point in mobility
• Red Bull TV, JPods starts at 9:30 (2016) on the future of transportation (self-driving cars for off-network, JPods for urban networks, and Hyperloops for highspeed networks between cities)
• $500 million Hyperloop Certification Center in West Virginia Announcement
• Pirates and Patriots, such as Tesla, are purposefully violating existing laws to delivered 3 billion self-driving miles on roads and a 9X better safety record. An example of violating laws, operating a car without a licensed driver, no driver at all, Tesla's promotional video on "Smart Summon"
• Praetor Capital 2021 estimate of PRT capital value of $31-58 billion.
• Pitchbook, “Q1 2021 Emerging Tech Research: Mobility Tech”

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
• Mar 5, 2020: Valued at $30bn, Waymo considers its next move "outside investors lined up this week to pour $2.25bn into Waymo"
• Transportation poised for wild ride over next decade

Governments:

• ‘It’s a disgrace, frankly’: The O’Hare trains to nowhere
• We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
• Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze - South Carolina, Vince Graham
• The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
• 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.
• Mass Transit: L.A. is hemorrhaging bus riders — worsening traffic and hurting climate goals
• Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It
• Subway Performance Reaches Major Milestone – On-Time Performance Crosses 80% for the First Time in Six Years, Up from a Low of 58% in January 2018
• Georgia sees spike in pedestrian deaths
• Leon Drolet: Transit is fading as transportation options shift
• Hey California, you can now trade in your old car for an electric bike!
• Latin America pledges 70% renewable energy, surpassing EU: Colombia minister
• Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
• Boomers Are Thriving on an ‘Unprecedented’ $9 Trillion Inheritance
• 71 people were killed while traveling around Denver in 2019 — here’s where
• US Uses 11 Times More Energy Than UK (with Only 5 Times More People)
• Dallas-Fort Worth’s sprawling rail networks haven’t worked, so here’s a better idea
• Clearwater one step closer to aerial transit system in Tampa Bay
• Yet Another Report Highlights DART’s Poor Quality Transit
• Atlanta is home to three of worst traffic bottlenecks in U.S.
• TAKOMA PARK AGGRESSIVELY WORKS TOWARDS ELIMINATION OF FOSSIL FUELS
• We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
• Mar 3, WSJ: Amid Coronavirus Fears, Officials Say New York City Subway Is Safe
• May 5, 2020, BBC: Coronavirus: Tube numbers to be 'severely restricted'
• London's Tube to be overwhelmed 'with just 15pc of passengers allowed onto carriages after lockdown'
• Bill would tie Amtrak funding to preservation of long-distance routes
• Bike safety defects in San Jose.
• Gross Domestic Product, 2nd Quarter 2020 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update, 32.9% decrease in GDP
• Iran dumps dollar for yuan; US imposes new sanctions
• National Conference of State Legislatures summary of States enacting self-driving car laws.
• What should matter….doesn’t.
• U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression 
• Mass Transit ridership is 65% lower than before the pandemic
• French Government investment: First solar roadway in France turned out to be a 'total disaster'. They did not do their math nor engineering. The collectors much be mounted over guideways. 

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.
• Dr Ortiz letting his Telsa drive him home in NYC traffic.
• Autonomous trucks reach a new milestone (with video)
• Driverless cars won't deliver a transport revolution—and the auto industry stands to lose out
• Morgantown network of self-driving cars has been running since 1972.
• Sony reveals electric car prototype as CEO dubs mobility the next ‘mega trend’
• New York-based architect Bjarke Ingels designs Toyota's "city of the future" in Japan
• The federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption
• Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds
• Autonomous Milestone: NHTSA grants first-ever driverless car exemption
• Soucheray: Light rail is an even bigger disaster than we thought
• Fed Risk Summary, page 28
• Musk gets approval to expand in Las Vegas.
• Car design is about to change forever. This video encapsulates how

Covid-19

• Spread of flue on the London Tube
• Coronavirus in NY: MTA chief calls subways safe — but also says avoid them
• Coronavirus May Have a Lasting Impact on Public Transit Funding
• U.S. Jobless Rate May Soar to 30%, Fed’s Bullard Says
• NY Times: A Tragedy is Unfolding: Inside New York's Virus Epicenter
• Half of China's Infections on Saturday Came From an International Flight
• Real Clear Politics: April 3, 2020, Virus Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portraya
• 'It's positively alpine!': Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
• Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents
• MIT Study: NYC Subways: The Subways Seeded The Massive Coronavirus Epidemic In New York City
• Jeffrey: What Spread Coronavirus in New York City? The Subways.

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
• INTERVIEW: Virgin Hyperloop One moving forward in India, Dubai, and Saudi: co-founder
• Hyperloop CEO reveals where the revolutionary project is right now
• Hyperloop: Is This the Future of Transportation in NYC?
• Hyperloop a step closer to offering a green alternative to short haul flights
• $2 million study looks at hyperloop – 700 mph transit – that would cross Pennsylvania
• The XP-1 hyperloop test pod is coming to Missouri and North Carolina
• The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop tunnel project is coming to life
• Pittsburgh to Cleveland in 9 minutes? There is new funding to study the possible Hyperloop route
• Hyperloop could come to North Texas sooner than expected
• Is this the future of transportation? The Hyperloop pod visits the Triangle this week.
• “Virgin Hyperloop One (VHO) will zoom into Washington D.C. on Wednesday, stopping outside the United States Capitol with its XP-1 test pod”
• Hyperloop to add $4bn, 124,000 jobs in Saudi Arabia
• New report claims MO hyperloop could create $3.6B annual boost, 17K new jobs
• Show Me Hyperloop: Missouri panel confident it can win route with $300M+ test track
• Virgin Hyperloop seeks backing to build U.S. certification center
• Senator Manchin sends letter advocating for Virgin Hyperloop One to build Certification and Test Center in W.Va.
• Governor: West Virginia makes its pitch for Hyperloop high-speed pod transit development center
• Great Lakes Hyperloop Feasibility Study
• Link to a new story out to Saudi Arabia today.
• Op-ed: The hyperloop will revolutionize transportation in the post-coronavirus world, Lucas Asher
• Governor announces Hyperloop Certification Center to be built
• Hopes for Missouri Hyperloop project dashed, Branson announces West Virginia
• India: Virgin Hyperloop sets up global hyperloop certification centre
• Effect of Hyperloop Technologies on the Electric Grid and Transportation Energy

Drones

• UPS wins first broad FAA approval for drone delivery

JPods

• Georgia Senate Transportation Committee hearing Mar 12
• THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, How we found (and lost) the dream of Personal Rapid Transit
• Queens Mobility Company, the official Draft EIS Document, LGA Access EIS, and the JPods response
• Georgia Mobility Company
• Response to RFI, San Jose, CA
• Metro Atlanta transit plan: Here's the project list
• JPods example networks in Tulsa
• JPods in Shaxian, China (2018)
• Boston Magazine: How to Save Transportation in Boston: Big Ideas
• Carden's presentation on accessibility (starts at 23:20).
• San Jose Proposal and "experts" choosing the same failed tech and vendors from Indianapolis and Las Vegas.
• Las Vegas proposal. JPods networks cost $10-30 million/mile verses the Monorail at $150 million per mile ($654 million for 3.9 miles). The Monorail was recently sold in bankruptcy for $24 million.
• Videos
  • Anshan
  • GW Bridge CenterLine
  • GW Bridge Side
  • Operational JPods in factory
  • ELF being carried
  • Station Animation
  • High volume
  • Secaucus
  • Medium traffic snelling

Fracking, oil, and energy:

• The U.S. Shale Revolution Has Surrendered to Reality
• The Oil Market Remains In The Control Of OPEC+ Until Demand Fully Recovers -- Demand exceeds supply in 2022-Q3
• EIA forecasts U.S. crude oil production to fall in 2020 and 2021
• Bankruptcy:
  • OIL PATCH BANKRUPTCY MONITOR
  • World Oil, 2020-06, Chesapeake joins more than 200 other bankrupt U.S. shale producers
  • visualcapitalist.com, 2020-07, Tracking the Growing Wave of Oil & Gas Bankruptcies in 2020
  • Reuters, 2020-10, U.S. oil producers on pace for most bankruptcies since last oil downturn
  • Forbes, 2020-10, As Oil Bankruptcies Surge, Vulture Investors Start Their Long Feast
  • NS Energy, 2021-01, North America hit record bankruptcy debt across oil and gas sectors in 2020
  • Houston Chronicle, 2021-01, Over 100 oil and gas companies went bankrupt in 2020
• Colonial Pipeline CEO warns of fuel shortages following cyberattack
• Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth?
• The Guardian: What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil?
• Columbia | SIPA: Reserve Base Lending and the Outlook for Shale Oil and Gas Finance
• Bethany McLean:
  • Saudi America interview with Chris Martenson.
  • Bethany McLean, Sept 2018: The Truth about Fracking and How It's Changing the World, 7 minute summary
• Fracking March 18, 2019: "The statistics point to a one to two-million-barrel decline in production from the frackers"
• NBC News: April 8, 2019: Why much of the country is headed for $4 gas
• Seeking Alpha: April 9, 2019: U.S. Oil Production Is Starting To Grow Again
• Seeking Alpha: Oct 16, 2019: U.S. Shale Productivity Declines Even As DUCs Decrease
• Peak Oil, Feb 13, 2020: $207.5 billion in losses.
• Mar. 13, 2020: U.S. Oil Production Could Drop By A Quarter
• Oil Shock of 1973–74
• Dallas Fed: Breakeven Oil Prices Underscore Shale’s Impact on the Market ($49 to $54)
• CNBC: Oil now a ‘bigger problem for markets than the coronavirus,’ analyst says
• Baker Hughes Rig Count
• CNBC: Exxon cuts capital spending by 30%, but CEO says it’s ‘committed to maintaining’ dividend
• May 6, 2020: Implied U.S. Oil Production Shows Material Drop And Looks To Be Headed For 10 Mb/D
• April 28, 2020: 3.77 Mb/D Reduction In U.S. Gasoline Supply, Bullish UGA
• May 19, 2020: UGA: Bullish With New Source Of Demand
• June 1, 2020: Bullish UGA, Undervalued By $8
• Saudi America, Bethany McLean
• June 18, 2020: U.S. Energy Dominance is Over
• June 2020, EIA Permian
• July 2020, Shale boss says U.S. has surpassed peak oil
• UGA: Bullish, Demand Exceeds Supply
• Oct 9, 2020 U.S. Oil Production Set To Decline More From Here On Out
• Bethany McLean
  • Yahoo News: Bethany McLean: The Truth about Fracking and How It's Changing the World, 7 minutes Fracking is Fed Policies
  • 30 minute summary, start at minute 18:30 on the shift from oil to renewables.

Suspended trains:

• Germany
• Japan
• Wuppertal

Graphene

• Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy

Robots

• Navy Ship
• Robot space ships landing
• Boston Dynamics, Now that I can dance
• Dancing Spots
• Examples of factory robots

Batteries

• Solid State Batteries at Toyota and VW

Capital

• Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure CEO: Carbon Pricing Is Necessary | Mad Money | CNBC

Oil

• Oil Discoveries Hit 70-Year Low
• 2020-06-01: OPEC+ Wants To Eliminate Storage Overhang Before Year-End Via Aggressive Supply Cuts. Excellent Debt Wall graphic

Microgrids and Solar

• Opinion: Microgrids could prevent need for planned power outages
• Here’s how some Bay Area businesses and residents circumvented the PG&E power blackout
• Pascal Conductance in LaAIO3/SrTiO3 Channels
• Growth of Solar versus Prediction Failures

Peak Oil

• Capital Markets Shun Oil and Gas

Sea Ice

• Excellent summary of the loss of multi-year sea ice

Policies:

• Want to Build Your City’s Economy? Think Transportation, Not Tax Breaks.
  Regions with an efficient transportation network stand a better chance of boosting productivity through shorter commutes.  
• Exactly How Far U.S. Street Safety Has Fallen Behind Europe, in Three Bombshell Charts
• Some Reasons the Bike Always Wins