You can no longer have a conversation about next generation transportation or intelligent transportation without talking about drones. Where will they operate? What are the right-of-way issues? What are the insurance issues? What are the questions that we’re not asking? John Ellis, the author of The Zero Dollar Car, joins Regina Hopper in this edition of POLICYSMART to take a look at the future.

It’s THE week for highlighting technology with the annual ritual of the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas. This year mobility and connectivity are front and center. Regina Hopper, SVP of Public Policy for GRIDSMART Technologies was in Las Vegas and brings the color and craziness of CES!

The worlds of transportation, telecom and vehicle manufacturing are coming together on many levels as connected vehicles and vehicle to infrastructure communications becomes a reality. What are the carriers doing to advance deployment of networks that will support this connectivity? What will it take to deploy next generation networks? In this episode of POLICYSMART, Regina Hopper talks with Walter White, Vice President of Government Relations at Verizon.

The concept of privacy as a product—where the buyer of a product “opts out” of data collection for a price—is the subject of the new book “The Zero Dollar Car.”  The author, John Ellis (www.johntellis.com), talks about how we are no longer a “ship and forget” environment and what that means for transportation in an increasingly connected mobility world. Regina Hopper, GRIDSMART Technologies’ SVP of Global Public Policy, talks with John about the interesting new vocabulary and privacy questions intelligent transportation is creating.

Capitol Hill is abuzz with talk of autonomous vehicles with the House of Representatives having passed its version of legislation and a Senate Committee signing off on a somewhat different bill. So what is the future of “intelligent transportation” on Capitol Hill? Regina Hopper, SVP of Global Public Policy talks with Ron Thaniel, VP of Government Affairs with ITSAmerica. 

Global Public Policy launches this podcast with GRIDSMART CEO and Co-Founder, Bill Malkes.  They talk about what inspired him to create POLICYSMART and what he hopes you will take away from it. 

What is intelligent transportation? Who are the people behind it? What are the public policy issues that will drive more adoption of both the technologies and the money needed to deploy it?

Regina Hopper, GRIDSMART's Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy explains how these questions and hundreds more are what this podcast is about.

POLICYSMART facilitates a direct, honest, and thought-provoking look at the ideas, policy, products, and people behind the next generation of transportation.