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Cascadia Center
September 23, 2020
Cascadia

The Future of Commuting

Cascadia Center
September 23, 2020
Cascadia
Our region’s economic recovery may be advancing in fits and starts but traffic volumes on our region’s motorways have rebounded to near normal and the congestion that plagues Puget Sound travelers has returned in all the usual locations. Read More ›
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Bruce Agnew and Jay W. Richards
September 4, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Cascadia

Bringing ACES Vehicle Technology to the Puget Sound Region

Bruce Agnew and Jay W. Richards
September 4, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Cascadia
Jay Richards interviews Bruce Agnew, Director of the ACES Northwest Network, about the collective’s work to bring Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region. Agnew says that 5G will be key in implementing autonomous vehicles as it will increase bandwidth and reduce latency, thus adding a degree of technical capacity and safety. Read More ›
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Tom Alberg
August 28, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Cascadia

The Benefits of Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Technology

Tom Alberg
August 28, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Cascadia
Jay Richards interviews Tom Alberg, Founder, Madrona Venture Group and Co-chair of the ACES Northwest Network, about ACES’ efforts to bring Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region. Alberg dismisses the idea that these new technologies will lead to job loss because innovation has always created more opportunity, not less. Read More ›
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Bruce Agnew and Scott Kuznicki
August 25, 2020
Cascadia

Electrify Sea-Tac

Bruce Agnew and Scott Kuznicki
August 25, 2020
Cascadia

The ACES Northwest Network, and initiative of Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center, is a unique collective working to bring Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region. As a center of mobility for air and ground transportation, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the surrounding communities are poised to become a clean energy hub, building on decades of environmental Read More ›

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Cascadia Center
August 7, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute

Electrify Sea-Tac

Cascadia Center
August 7, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute

As a center of mobility for air and ground transportation, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and the surrounding communities are poised to become a clean energy hub, building on decades of environmental stewardship.  Join the ACES Northwest Network and partners for this exciting look inside what’s happening in the world of electric aircraft, shared-ride transportation services, and community energy services.  Public-private partnerships …

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Discovery Institute
January 29, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute, Technology

Discovery Founding Chairman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Seattle Business Magazine

Discovery Institute
January 29, 2020
Cascadia, Discovery Institute, Technology

Discovery Institute founding board chair Tom Alberg, who served on the board from 1991 to 2004, has been given a lifetime achievement award by Seattle Business Magazine for what they call his “uncanny knack for anticipating tech’s next blockbuster hit.” In addition to his tech senses, he also has a deep understanding of transportation and mobility challenges in the Puget Read More ›

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Gregory Scruggs
November 19, 2019
Cascadia

Why Experts Say the Pacific Northwest is a ‘Perfect Laboratory’ for Autonomous Technology

Gregory Scruggs
November 19, 2019
Cascadia
The hype cycle for autonomous vehicles may have slowed down after the March 2018 fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber car, but for AV booster Bruce Agnew, the Pacific Northwest offers a wide range of applications for the technology that go far beyond passengers traveling big-city streets. As director of ACES — a Madrona Venture Group and INRIX-backed network promoting autonomous, connected, electric, and shared vehicles — Agnew sees the diverse geography and economic opportunities of the region as ripe for those four trends to converge in transportation. While much of the attention on autonomous vehicles thus far has focused on their urban applications, as the everyday car driver imagines what it might be like to relinquish the wheel, that’s not where the technology is heading first, experts say. Read More ›
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Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
October 18, 2019
Cascadia

Raising Taxes on Ride Sharing Harms the Public

Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
October 18, 2019
Cascadia

Call it a head tax on wheels. The recently announced plan to triple the Seattle city taxes on all ride-share trips — to 75 cents from 24 cents, which would create the highest flat ride-share tax in the U.S. — is out of the same playbook that brought us the 2017-18 tax on jobs. It would hurt working people and Read More ›

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Cascadia Center
January 12, 2019
Cascadia

Technology, Transportation, and the Tunnel

Cascadia Center
January 12, 2019
Cascadia

The work of Discovery Institute’s ACES Northwest Network was recently featured in this Seattle Times article, authored by project co-chairs Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele.  The article highlights our efforts to advance autonomous, connected, electric and shared (ACES) vehicle technologies in the Pacific Northwest—especially during the so-called ‘Period of Maximum Constraint’ following the impending closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.  Read More ›

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Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
January 2, 2019
Cascadia

Transportation Technology Can Deliver Us From Viaduct-Closure Gridlock

Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele
January 2, 2019
Cascadia
Seattle is facing a dire transportation crisis with the Jan. 11 closing of the viaduct, politely dubbed the “Period of Maximum Constraint” (POMC). While commuters, employers and school officials are busy making contingency plans, why not take advantage of this moment to tackle some of our traffic congestion problems with creative solutions that might not be possible in normal times. Read More ›