You can learn more at mcity.umich.edu.

How is the insurance industry playing a role in the deployment of connected, autonomous and new mobility systems? Don Civgin, President of Service Businesses at Allstate Corporation, is on a mission to make sure the traditional players in this field know that Allstate through its spin-off Arity is ready to be a critical player in making next generation transportation a reality.

With 20 billion miles of data this new company is ready to add to the safety equation by redefining insurance and risk and giving travelers the option of contributing to a new paradigm in personal transportation as well as transportation services.

If you want to know more about Arity, check it out here https://www.arity.com/.

The Future of Privacy? Isn’t that the question, as we get closer to the promises of new mobility systems driving transportation? Lauren Smith, with the Future of Privacy Forum, who deals with the policy of all things private and not so private when it comes to data, joined us as she had just finished a panel at the most recent Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington. She shares a different perspective on what privacy we all should - or should not - expect in the future.

LINK:

• FPF and NADA Launch Guide to Consumer Privacy in the Connected Car

A Top 10 Disruptor by the Eno Foundation and one of Mass Transit’s Top 40 Under 40 list, Matt Cole is President of Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and senior vice president, Cubic Corporation.  Matt led the launch of the NextCity project and in this edition of POLICYSMART, he talks about how new mobility options, integrated payment systems, AI and autonomous and connected technologies are quickly coming together to create the smart cities of the future.

What are the trends in new mobility in 2019? How do you turn big data into useful information for decision-making? How do cities keep in mind issues like equity when implementing new technologies? And what is it actually like to ride in an autonomous vehicle?

My friend Courtney Ehrlichman—a leader in intelligent and new mobility systems, founder of The Ehrlichman Group, and co-founder of RoadBotics—joined us at the 2019 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting this year to answer these questions (and more!) about emerging mobility and disruptive technology.

Happy New Year! We all take time every January to figure out how we can make a difference.  In this first edition of POLICYSMART for 2019, we introduce you to someone who took one stone, dropped it in the larger pool, and created positive energy to change a city.  Listen to our discussion with Drew Philp as he describes what he chose to do to help the city of Detroit.

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

• A $500 House in Detroit, the book
• Drew Philp on The Guardian

As the former Director of Caltrans, Malcolm Dougherty has more than 25 years of experience in shepherding in new mobility systems. He's seen the transportation industry go through all kinds of changes and transitions.

Malcolm is now the Senior Vice President and National Transportation Practice Lead at Michael Baker International. Join us for a brilliant, high-tech conversation with Malcolm about ITS, P3s, DSRC, AV, and all things cutting-edge and transportation.

Threat analysis. Data protection. Risk Avoidance. What are cities, states and the federal government doing to take the steps necessary to protect data and operations, as the day to day of transportation become increasingly interconnected with the internet of things?

Tony Rucci has spent the last 34 years in technical security intelligence and he shares some of his experience and insights into what is out there now and what we can expect in the future.

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to a new edition of the POLICYSMART podcast where we talk to Carlos “Los” Whittaker—the author of “Kill the Spider” and “Moment Maker”—about his journey in taking control of life by creating moments that let you do just that.  Yes! This is directly relevant to working in transportation. It’s a little gift to everyone as we enter the 2019 holiday season!