Arlington, Texas, Launches Autonomous Transit Vehicle Pilot

Gerry Thierney's comments during the Urbanism Next 2021 Virtual Forum was quoted in this article about an autonomous transit pilot launch in Arlington, Texas.

“We have to really come up with a transit ecology that reflects the new normal, going into a post-COVID world,” said Gerry Tierney, associate principal and co-director of the Mobility Lab at Perkins+Will, an urban design firm in San Francisco.

“What we were doing in 2019 and what we’ll be doing in 2022, I think, are going to be two different worlds,” Tierney added, in comments at the Urbanism Next conference last week. “I think we need a more nuanced approach to what the transit service is going to be. It’s not all going to be 40-seater buses. It’s not all going to be light rail or heavy rail. I think we have to look at the other mobility options.”

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