by alliance21 | Jun 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
NASA is developing an electric plane that generates an opening for aviation innovation. NASA Electric...
by alliance21 | Jun 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge is an exceptional example of how the right balance of government leadership, creativity, incentives and restraint can conspire to generate innovation and the possibility of transformation. Washington...
by alliance21 | Jun 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The recent Egypt Air crash raises questions as to why airlines don’t stream data from the black boxes in real time? See...
by alliance21 | May 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Russ Shields is one of the most influential visionaries in the transportation space today. He is leading an effort to develop international communication standards and practices to address some of the hairy communication challenges that will enable the transformation...
by alliance21 | May 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
The NTSB concludes that the Amtrak engineer was distracted and lost situational awareness. Sadly, we have a variety of technologies in addition to positive train control to avoid this type of tragedy that is a direct result of human error. NTSB findings from...
by alliance21 | May 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
A group of ex-Google engineers have gotten together to form a California-based start up called Otto that promised to accelerate the deployment of self-driving trucks onto U.S. highways. Although this isn’t getting as much attention as self-driving cars, there...
