Arlington, Texas, United States
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Use Similar Vehicle Types for All User Groups in Automated Shuttle Services to Ensure Consistent Quality and Address Concerns About Service for Wheelchair Users.
Use similar vehicle types for all user groups in automated shuttle services. This is important to ensure consistent quality and address concerns about service for wheelchair users or visually…
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Date Posted
07/26/2024
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Consider How Automated Vehicles Can Serve Different User Needs: Recommendations from a Focus Group.
Consider different users' priorities. While the "general public" focus group considered it critical for a transit service to be able to connect them with recreational facilities and events at late…
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Date Posted
08/31/2022
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Include Localized Water Level Monitoring Sensors to Provide More Sensitive Detection of Urban Flash Flooding.
Include water level monitoring sensors at both pavement and streamside locations for more accurate flooding forecasts. The water level monitoring of both pavement side and streamside locations…
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Date Posted
07/27/2022
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Weather Data Collection (WX01)
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Data Analysis Study Conducted in Texas Found That 64.8 Percent of the Respondents Were Strongly Likely to Use Shared Automated Vehicle Service
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The study employed a case study approach centered on the Arlington RAPID, which operated from March 2021 to March 2022. This pilot project integrated AVs into an existing on-demand…
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Date Posted
10/29/2025
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Transit Fixed-Route Operations (PT02),
Shared Use Mobility and Dynamic Ridesharing (TI06),
Automated Vehicle Operations (VS17)
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Survey of Arlington's Automated Rideshare Service Showed High Satisfaction with 97 Percent of Riders Feeling Safe and 98 Percent Willing to Ride Again.
METHODOLOGYIn RAPID, over 35 stops were programmed in the one square-mile service area, so no matter where a user requested a ride, there would be a stop location within a short walk. Rider…
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Date Posted
04/01/2023
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Dynamic Transit Operations (PT03),
Shared Use Mobility and Dynamic Ridesharing (TI06),
Automated Vehicle Operations (VS17)
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In Arlington, Texas, the cost to lease two autonomous public shuttles to carry passengers from remote parking lots to its stadium venues was $272,000.
In 2017, the Arlington, Texas City Council entered into a one-year lease with EasyMile of Toulose, France for use of two low-speed, autonomous shuttles. The City will offer free shuttle rides on pre-…
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Made Public Date
11/26/2018
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Dynamic Transit Operations (PT03),
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09)
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