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The addition of a soon-to-be permanent supportive housing facility for the homeless is causing a Kirkland business to move out of town.INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele made the announcement on X."This week INRIX signed a lease which will move us out of Kirkland which has been our home for the past 18 years," Mistele wrote. "Why? (The city of Kirkland) made a decision to put a homeless hotel right across the street from our current HQ."Mistele went on to claim that no drug testing is required at the facility and there is "no real supervision on-site."

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The Washington State House passed a bill aimed at cracking down on speeding. Kirkland residents voiced their frustrations with the city’s plans to open a new homeless hotel. Florida spent over $600 million on illegal aliens last year. // Canada issued retaliatory tariffs against the United States. What is Donald Trump’s end game in the trade war? // Guest: INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele on his decision to leave Kirkland due to a new homeless hotel near their office.

INRIX announced they are leaving the city of Kirkland due to a low-barrier homeless hotel that is being placed right across the street from their office. Guest: Chairman of “Belltown United” Tom Graff on the graffiti epidemic that has plagued Seattle and the city’s “fight paint with paint” strategy. // The Trump-Zelenskyy spat continues. // Kieran Culkin provided The Oscars with a wholesome moment last night.

A Seattle business had $100k worth of guitars stolen. A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck Orcas Island. Guest: CEO of Dunn Lumber Mike Dunn reacts to INRIX’s decision to leave Kirkland due to a new homeless hotel. // Guest: President of the Downtown Seattle Association Jon Scholes weighs in on the ongoing battle to build more housing in SODO. // You Pick the Topic: Bill Murray says he became convinced that Bob Woodward framed Richard Nixon after reading Woodward’s book about his friend John Belushi.

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Brian Ascher, a veteran venture capitalist at Venrock, a firm with a storied history dating back to 1969 as part of the Rockefeller family office. Brian, with nearly 30 years in the industry, shared his journey from product management at Intuit to becoming a key partner at Venrock. We dove into the firm's evolution, investment strategies, and decision-making processes, highlighting how Venrock maintains its edge as it evolves.About Brian Ascher:Brian Ascher is a Partner at Venrock where he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software, SaaS, and consumer internet companies. With a deep passion for partnering with visionary founders, Brian is known for helping businesses scale through strategic growth, operational insights, and innovation.Since joining Venrock in 1998, Brian has played a pivotal role in numerous successful investments, including Vocera, 6sense, Personal Capital, and Inrix. His expertise spans go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and building high-performing teams.Topics in this conversation include:* Brian's Career Journey (1:34)* The Evolution of Venture Capital (6:25)* Venrock's Decision-Making Model (10:09)* Balancing Investment Decisions and Team Dynamics (14:42)* Empowered Accountability in Deal Decisions (20:44)* Cultural Norms in Venture Capital (22:38)* Investment Strategy and Risk Management (25:12)* Portfolio Construction and Returns (30:22)* Opportunity Funds vs. Core Funds (33:01)* Adapting to AI's Impact on Investment (36:15)* Advice for Aspiring VCs (41:28)* Final Thoughts and Takeaways (43:48)I'd love to know what you took away from this conversation with Brian Ascher.Follow me @SamirKaji and give me your insights and questions with the hashtag #ventureunlocked. If you'd like to be considered as a guest or have someone you'd like to hear from (GP or LP), drop me a direct message on X. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ventureunlocked.substack.com

John Maytham is joined by Faisel Fakier, a transport engineer and senior consultant at Asakhe Engineers Consulting, to discuss possible solutions for easing Cape Town’s traffic troublesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Pishue, Transportation Analyst at INRIX and author of the 2024 Global Traffic Scorecard, talks to Lisa Dent about INRIX’s ranking for the most traffic congested highways in the US, all of the associated data, and the costly effects of time spent in traffic.

Boston, despite having the largest year-over-year decrease in traffic delay time for any city in the top 25 most congested American cities, ranks 4th in the U.S. for having the worst traffic congestion. This data comes from INRIX's 2024 Global Traffic Scorecard. The report found Boston drivers lost 79 hours and $1,414 sitting in traffic, resulting in $2.7 billion lost city wide! Is there anything we can do to help alleviate congestion in Boston?Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!

Drivers in Dublin were delayed by an average of 81 hours in 2024 due to congestion in the city, according to a survey conducted by data company Inrix.Brian Caulfield, Professor in Transportation at the Department of Civil Engineering at TCD, spoke to Matt on The Last Word about the findings.Hit the ‘Play' button on this page to hear the chat.

A report by INRIX says that traffic congestion is worsening in the United States – and offers some interesting data that may show why. Also, an effort in California that originally would have put speed limiters on all vehicles now calls for putting “speed warning devices” on all new vehicles. 0:00 – Newscast 10:22 – Traffic congestion – it's not getting better 40:08 – California lawmakers want to warn you about speed

Traffic Economist Megan Bruwer weighs in on stats reflecting high volumes of congestion in Cape Town in comparison to other global cities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shoot us a Text.Happy Independence Day! We're giving you a quick hit of BBQ prices, drones v fireworks, and some substantial travel numbers. Grab some mac salad and join us. It will be an expensive Fourth of July for most consumers as BBQ prices hit an all-time high. As BBQ essentials have significantly increased in price, up 5% from last year and 30% from five years ago.The survey checked prices for a complete cookout including cheeseburgers, chicken breasts, pork chops, and more. Feeding 10 people will cost $71.22, up 5% from last year and 30% from five years ago. The grocery list included: cheeseburgers, chicken breasts, pork chops, potato chips, pork and beans, fresh strawberries, homemade potato salad, fresh-squeezed lemonade, chocolate chip cookies, and ice creamFewer cattle are being placed on feed, leading to higher beef prices.“Yes, food prices are increasing, but they're not increasing as much as they have in recent years, and they're even a little below the long-run average,” said economics professor Andrew Stevens.“The consumer is waving the white flag on food inflation,” said Tom Bailey, senior consumer foods analyst at Rabobank as the cost disparity between dining out and cooking at home at its widest margin in history, we're seeing heightened fatigue and frugality according to PR NewswireMore cities and organizations are throwing out the fireworks shows and instead incorporating drone shows into their July 4th events.Los Angeles replaced the traditional downtown July Fourth fireworks with a drone show, aiming for innovation and wildfire safety. The move paid off as the crowd responded positively to the new experience.Nashville and the Kansas City Royals are combining drones with fireworks, while Napa and Tahoe City are using drones exclusively.Safety and environmental concerns drive the shift, as drones do not leave debris or risk fires.Drones offer creative storytelling synced to music but come at a higher cost than traditional fireworks, and shows often don't last as long due to battery life.Despite some initial resistance, the innovative approach is gaining acceptance and evolving rapidly.AAA projects a record-breaking 70.9 million travelers will journey 50 miles or more for Independence Day, marking a 5% increase from last year.This year's holiday travel period spans nine days (Saturday, June 29 to Sunday, July 7), the longest ever observed.60.6 million people will travel by car, surpassing the 2019 record of 55.3 million.Gas prices are lower than last year's $3.53 per gallon average.Air travel will see 5.74 million passengers, a 7% rise from last year.Bob Pishue from INRIX warns of heavy traffic on July 3rd and 7th, with potential delays up to 67%.Top domestic city: Seattle; Top International city: Vancouver, BC, CanadaHosts: Paul J Daly and Kyle MountsierGet the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/ JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/ Read our most recent email at: https://www.asotu.com/media/push-back-email

What’s Trending: A Kentlake High School teacher photographed crawling under the stalls of bathrooms and the district is mum on some reasonable questions. Seattle traffic got worse in 2023 according to new data from INRIX. 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have spoken out against Donald Trump’s economic agenda. // Seniors in Seattle are trying to get property tax relief as the cost of living becomes untenable. It’s primary day in New York and the polls don’t look good for incumbent Congressman Jamaal Bowman. // The Bellingham Herald has a “Beginner’s Guide to Pronouns.”  

Feel like you're going nowhere? That's because London remains the most traffic-congested city in Europe and the third worst globally, according to an annual survey.Evening Standard transport editor Ross Lydall reports the Inrix 2023 global traffic score found speeds in central London fell 10 per cent in a year to an average of 10mph.Ross joins Mark Blunden to discuss the capital's most congested routes, TfL's gridlock management strategies and how Londoners' on-demand shopping habits are fuelling the problem.Plus, make sure to stay tuned for part two, where we'll analyse ‘Brat summer' - a phenomenon that fuelled by Charli XCX's new album that's seen social channels overrun with low-res green squares inspired by the cover artwork.Rachelle Abbott joins features writer Maddy Mussen to discuss her piece on Brat summer as the singer prepares to play a Glastonbury DJ set. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Henderson founded Ride Report in Portland in 2015 as a startup with a vision to revolutionize how cities count cycling trips. After eight years of building the company into with over $14 million in venture capital funding and partnerships with nearly 80 cities around the globe, Ride Report was sold to Inrix last month. Will is a thoughtful leader whose advocacy and love for cycling informs his perspectives on urban planning and systemic reform of our transportation politics and systems. This interview was recorded virtually on December 8th. Links:Ride ReportInrix press release about purchase of Ride ReportBikePortland coverage of Will Henderson

Bob Pishue, a transportation analyst with Inrix, joins Lisa Dent to break down how Chicago is ranked the No. 1 U.S. city with the worst traffic and why it's actually a good thing for the city’s economy. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 Follow @maryvandeveldeFollow @LaurenLapka

Kruser talks about bad traffic around the nation with Bob Pishue from INRIX which helps cities and businesses use big data to identify and solve transportation problems.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kruser talks about national traffic issues with Bob Pishue from INRIX, a transportation and infrastructure consulting company in hour 1.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boston was recently named the second worst city for traffic congestion in the country and fourth worst in the world, according to INRIX's 2022 global traffic scorecard. Today on The Common, Boston's Chief of Streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge joins the show to discuss city efforts to make transportation safer, more efficient and less car-dependent across Boston. Greater Boston's daily podcast where news and culture meet.

This week we're joined by Dr. Nadia Anderson, former Director of Federal Affairs at INRIX. Dr. Anderson joins us to talk about what lobbyists actually do, the one year anniversary of IIJA, and how it leads to Justice 40 and equity action.   OOO   Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

In this episode, we speak with Bryan Mistele, Co-Founder and CEO of INRIX, the global leader in connected car services and mobility analytics. The Company is at the forefront of connecting cars to smarter cities in more than 60 countries around the world. Founded in 2004, INRIX pioneered the practice of managing traffic by analyzing data not just from road sensors, but also from vehicles. Prior to INRIX, Bryan was an executive at Microsoft. He built HomeAdvisor into the #1 ranked business-to-business and business-to-consumer company in both the online mortgage and real estate industries. The company was a joint venture between Microsoft and five leading mortgage banks. I am your host RJ Lumba.  We hope you enjoy the show.

Jordan Rich filled in on NightSide:A new report released by INRIX, a global transportation data and analytics company, found that Boston ranks the 2nd most congested city in the U.S. and the fourth in the world! Time lost to traffic congestion went up by 72% last year. Total Traffic and Weather Network traffic reporter Dan Mazella joined Jordan to discuss.

Chicago beat L.A, Houston and other traffic-clogged cities to be named the city with the worst congestion and traffic for the second year in a row, according to a report from the mobility analytics firm, Inrix. Reset speaks with transit expert Joseph Schwieterman about why and how this affects people's lives.

Bob Pishue, a transportation analyst with Inrix, joins Lisa Dent to explain what factors went into a study which revealed Chicago-area drivers spent the most hours sitting in congestion in 2022 than any other major US city. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 Follow @maryvandeveldeFollow @LaurenLapka

Bryan Mistele is the founder and CEO of INRIX, a leading provider of traffic data and analytics. Auren and Bryan discuss how vehicle technology is changing and when we can expect to see mass adoption of driverless cars in the US and around the world. Bryan breaks down which industries he expects will go autonomous first and how self-driving will affect total vehicle sales. Auren and Bryan also discuss the intricacies of operating a global data company and what better safety data could do for transportation.World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts.You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Bryan on Twitter at @BryanMi.

De acuerdo con Inrix, una plataforma especializada en datos y análisis de tráfico, Bogotá es la octava ciudad a nivel mundial que más horas pierde a razón del tráfico, y la primera de América Latina. Sin embargo, el problema puede ser más estructural y tal vez se debe al modelo de ciudad y la planificación urbana, pues Bogotá es una ciudad densa y eso hace que sea congestionada. En este podcast contamos con la participación de Ana Luisa Flechas, exsecretaria de movilidad de Bogotá; el urbanista, Camilo Santamaria; Carlos Torres, profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Fernando Montenegro Lizarralde, docente especial del Instituto de Estudios Urbanos de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Créditos: Dirección: Fernando Montenegro Lizarralde, profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Investigación temática y periodística: Claudia Sánchez Rivera y Milton Medina Ángel, Locución: Claudia Sánchez. Producción sonora: Edgar Guasca.

Avery Ash, Head of Global Public Policy and Product Strategy, INRIX joined Grayson Brulte on The Road To Autonomy Podcast to discuss how data can help cities and DOTs (Department of Transportations) better understand congestion and how to properly plan for it. The conversation begins with Avery discussing how INRIX gathers anonymous data from 500 million vehicles, mobile devices, mobile apps, parking lot operators, mobile carriers and smart meters all in real-time.Expanding their data gathering capabilities, INRIX recently announced a partnership with GM where data from 15 million vehicles will be used in a collaborative manner to create Safety View. This product leverage the promise of connected vehicles to improve safety planning in local communities. As local communities plan for safe road ways, data will play a vital role in determining the best way to improve safety. In Washington, D.C. for example, 20% of drivers travel at least 10 mph above the speed limit in school zones. Knowing this data, schools will be better prepared to implement safety solutions such solutions as speed bumps, crossing guards, lowering speed limits in surrounding neighborhoods and working with local law enforcement to increase the police presence. You can not expect one silver bullet solution that is going to solve this problem. – Avery AshOnce the new safety measures are put in place, schools can measure the impact of the changes thanks to the data. Data is also having an impact on how cities tackle the issue of congestion. Each year, INRIX publishes their Annual Global Traffic Scorecard and this year the company reported that the average American driver lost 36 hours in 2021 due to congestion. With all of this data being gathered, how can cities effectively use the data to reduce traffic? That is the million dollar question. In London which is the world's most congested city, where drivers lost 148 hours to congestion in 2021, the city has not figured out how to effectively reduce traffic even as the city has a daily £15 congestion tax. New York City is currently debating on whether to follow London's lead and introduce a congestion tax. But NYC has a crime problem that three quarters of New Yorkers have called a very serious problem. Crime is driving New Yorkers tourists alike to single occupancy vehicles out of an abundance of caution. When planning for congestion, it's important to take into account a variety of data points and not just rely on one source of data. It's really important to enter into these sorts of policy changes with eyes wide open and with a willingness and frankly a plan for how you are going to measure the impact. – Avery AshCould autonomous vehicle drop-off and pick-up zones be a potential solution in the future as AVs scale and are deployed in cities around the world? Grayson and Avery discuss drop-off and pick-up zones as a potential solution for congestion in cities. Wrapping up the conversation, Avery shares his opinion on the best way cities can prepare for the large scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. The first step is to get a really clear understanding of how your roadways are currently being used and what behavior looks like across your road networks, across all road users. – Avery AshFollow The Road To Autonomy on Apple PodcastsFollow The Road To Autonomy on LinkedInFollow The Road To Autonomy on TwitterRecorded on Tuesday, August 30, 2022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The head of global public policy at traffic analytics company Inrix details a new partnership with General Motors which combines data from cars on the road with other information to provide insights on road safety and help cities thwart trouble spots.

SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, an audio AI company that can “listen” to new music and identify what makes a hit a hit. GM is partnering with a company called Inrix to collect data from vehicles for US transportation officials to analyze. Protocol has an interview with Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and head of Trustworthy AI and Ethical Tech who has thoughts about bias in AI development.Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns.

SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, an audio AI company that can “listen” to new music and identify what makes a hit a hit. GM is partnering with a company called Inrix to collect data from vehicles for US transportation officials to analyze. And Protocol has an interview with Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global DeloitteContinue reading "SoundCloud Picks The Hits – DTNS 4268"

SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, an audio AI company that can “listen” to new music and identify what makes a hit a hit. GM is partnering with a company called Inrix to collect data from vehicles for US transportation officials to analyze. And Protocol has an interview with Beena Ammanath, executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and head of Trustworthy AI and Ethical Tech who has thoughts about bias in AI development. Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe, Amos MP3 Download Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org Follow us on Twitter Instgram YouTube and Twitch Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. Subscribe through Apple Podcasts. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. If you are willing to support the show or to give as little as 10 cents a day on Patreon, Thank you! Become a Patron! Big thanks to Dan Lueders for the headlines music and Martin Bell for the opening theme! Big thanks to Mustafa A. from thepolarcat.com for the logo! Thanks to our mods Jack_Shid and KAPT_Kipper on the subreddit Send to email to feedback@dailytechnewsshow.com Show Notes To read the show notes in a separate page click here!

Hello Interactors,Last Sunday I ‘rabbit-holed’ on the origins of Easter. That led me to Passover, and then Ramadan. The origin stories all involve the movement of people, or their ephemeral equivalents, through space over time. And they all share a ‘common interest’ in one of the most ancient cities on the map — Jerusalem. Is there a map for that?As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…MAPPED OUTSpring has sprung, Easter Pass(ed)over, and Ramadan lingers on. Last week Christians celebrated the rising of their messiah from a tomb, Jewish people celebrated the exodus of their people from slavery, and Muslims continued to gather, contemplate, and fast. It’s rare these three holidays occur at once. The Islamic calendar of 354 lunar days cycles with the moon through the 365 solar days of the Christian calendar allowing the these three religious holidays to coexist every three decades.The histories of these religious traditions are all rooted in the interactions of people and place. Ramadan celebrates the night the Quran was passed down from above, Easter stems from the Germanic goddess Ēostre who rises to coax the sun to return, and Passover is from the Hebrew word pasha meaning “he passed over” commemorating the angel of death passing over them.People pass over terrain every day around the world. As Ēostre rises the sun warms the earth and people begin agitating, moving, traversing, and colliding like molecules being heated by the sun’s radiation. As the earth rotates waves of interactions between people and place rise and fall with the sun, rolling across the earth’s surface in perpetual motion.And yet our maps sit still. They are static moments of effervescent daily life frozen in time. Google Street View offers snapshots of people living their lives; unforgiving they strive, pixels blurring their eyes. But our world is anything but static. And yet our lives depend on fixed representations of us and all that surrounds. Take electoral district maps as an example. Every ten years, when the U.S. census is taken, the federal and state governments are required to reapportion the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and State Legislatures to match the current population. Accordingly, they’re also required to map numerically equal districts in the spirit of neutrality in a process called redistricting. Here’s an interactive redistricting map from FiveThirtyEight.It is seemingly impossible to be impartial in the remapping of these districts. Various subgroups of the general population are advantaged while others lose out. The system tends to bias regions with economic vitality because they typically attract the most people. Those people most advantaged economically are also those who are most mobile. Those less mobile tend to be more economically disadvantaged and are usually low-income, minorities, less educated, and skilled laborers in declining industries and geographies.The rich get richer, the poorer get poorer. Those who are mobile, move; and those stuck, are out of luck. One piece of research from 2019 by two political geographers reveals that “that districts with the fastest rate of growth have a higher level of affluence.” This means the ‘winners’ will gain house seats while the ‘losers’ lose seats. Their research looks at the 89 U.S. House seats that have shifted due to redistricting since 1960. Their results shows that,“Rewarding population growth means rewarding certain interests that produced it, the converse is true for punishing population loss. This is an underappreciated point among the many who think that a population basis for apportionment is problem-free and self-evidently superior to any other scheme.”WIGGLE ROOMThere are many rules applied to generating electoral district maps by the states, but according to the Loyola Law School the most common is Contiguity. There are 45 states that stipulate districts must be contiguous. In other words, a district can’t have an island floating inside another district. Borders must be adjacent. The next most common rule is adherence to Political Boundaries “to the extent practicable”. Thirty-four of the states have this as part of their state constitution or statute. This means a district map has to attempt to align its boundaries to county, city, or town lines.Compactness is another rule or guideline. They say, “scholars have proposed more than 30 measures of compactness” and that, “32 states require their legislative districts to be reasonably compact; 17 states require congressional districts to be compact.” Idaho appears to have the most specific definition of ‘compactness’ stating officials, “should avoid drawing districts that are oddly shaped.” I honestly have yet to see an electoral district map that is not oddly shaped. It turns out ‘compactness’ is a matter of opinion. Just look at Texas!Communities of interest also commonly show up in districting rules. There are 15 states that consider keeping “communities of interest” whole when drawing state legislative districts; 11 states do the same for congressional districts.” Those with a ‘common interest’ are people who share the same interest in a given piece of legislation. Just last May Kansas reinstated their guidelines and criteria stating:“There should be recognition of similarities of interest. Social, cultural, racial, ethnic, and economic interests common to the population of the area…should be considered.”Given these popular rules, it’s not hard to see how poor people and ethnic and racial minorities are literally excluded from representation. It’s also easy to see how redistricting amplifies political partisanship. The U.S. Constitution says little about how to limit these powers. And while the Supreme Court have stated excessive partisanship is unconstitutional, they’ve also “explicitly blessed lines drawn to protect incumbents, and even those drawn for a little bit of partisan advantage” Moreover, they’ve said they will not consider claims of extreme partisanship claiming there is no legal way to determine how much is ‘too much’.But I’m not certain there is a fair way to map representation using static maps that assume constituents somehow live, work, pray, or school within an electoral district. Perhaps it’s possible in some rural areas, but I go through three congressional districts and four state legislative districts just to get to the airport. To be ‘contiguous’ and ‘compact’ the district lines go down the middle of Lake Washington. Do the people I see on the other side of the lake really have different ‘community interests’ than mine?It was Thomas Jefferson who pushed to violently displace or exterminate Indigenous people, possess their land, and then grid it up to be sold (or given for free to homesteaders), farmed, and then taxed. After all, he was a farmer with an agrarian vision of colonial settlements across the country featuring schools, churches, and a government seat within ‘political boundaries’. You can read just how easy it was for settlers to grid their own property in a piece I wrote last year called, Make Your Own Survey in Under a Day.While these people mobilized across the country, farmers and settlers were not that mobile relative to today. Early settlements were naturally ‘compact’. ‘Common interests’ were instilled through fear. Settlers banded together despite their ethnic or religious differences because they fretted over when and where the original occupants of the land they were farming may return hostile and violent demanding their stolen land be returned. And ‘contiguity’ would have been easily achieved given the rectilinear plots they platted.Territorial and electoral mapping became more complicated the more complex American societies became. Trains, streetcars, and bicycles made it easier for people to travel longer distances to live and work. The ‘common interests’ became more diffuse with each advance in transportation and wave of immigration. I can see how a politician might wish to squiggle the square on a map to wriggle toward voters to tap.Wriggle as they may, their constituents wiggled more. Now we have evidence that mobility and affluence are linked to partisan political maps that advantage the advantaged at the expense of ‘others’. We also know that lower income people are often priced out of affluent areas to suburbs, exurbs, and even rural areas. They are forced to live in areas often very different than where they work. Are their ‘common interests’ really relevant to their legislative representation?For example, if poorer people must rely on public transportation to get to and from work or school, are local, state, and congressional politicians in suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas really going to listen to their complaints about equitable transportation? Will they get fair ‘legislative representation?’And increasingly, for some, the pandemic has made it possible to live and work in wildly different places. What does ‘compactness’ or ‘communities of interest’ or ‘contiguity’ look like on a map under these dynamic conditions? Mapping for the purpose of political representation, taxation, and even urban and transportation planning assume built environments are as permanent as the physical earth in which they arrange themselves. Even a decennial census admits to a certain pace of life that is inconsistent with the increase in mobility, technology, and, unfortunately, climate change and economic inequality.MAPPING SPACE AND TIMEThere are some who have been calling for a shift from this stiff short shrift. From as early as the mid 1990s, a leading voice in this choir of change is Michael Batty. He is an urban planner, geographer, spatial data scientist, and professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. In 2002 he wrote an editorial in the Journal of Environment and Planning titled Thinking About Cities as Spatial Events.In it he writes,“It is possible to conceive of cities as being clusters of `spatial events', events that take place in time and space, where the event is characterized by its duration, intensity, volatility, and location. There may be interactions in time and space between events, leading to clusters and other aggregations, but the dominant way in which these descriptions are characterized is clearly temporal.”He defines duration as being as short as ‘trip making’ — measured in minutes or hours, to ‘living at a residential location’ — measured in months or years. Intensity could the intensity in which an event impacts people or place. It may be correlated with the ‘compactness’ of people involved in ‘common interests’ relative to those around them. Volatility is the variation in intensity and may be correlated with duration. A white collar worker with a predictable routine (or working from home) would measure as less volatile than a gig worker taking part-time jobs across a given region, country, or the world. Location, then, is the traditional measure and mapping of the terrestrial as well as population scale, size, and density.In his 2018 book, Inventing Future Cities, Batty dedicates a chapter to The Pulse of the City. Here he talks of a,“’liquid city’: a place where physical desires, face-to-face contacts, and digital deliberations provide a new nexus of innovation. Flows, networks, and connections, rather than inert structures, dominate this physicality as infrastructure comes to represent this new liquidity built on layer upon layer of flux and flow.”He isn’t the only voice challenging traditional static notions of place, Doreen Massey was another. She was a British social scientist and geographer and Professor of Geography at the Open University in the UK. She began her career in the field of economic geography where she focused on social and economic inequities that create stark divisions between regions and social classes. This led her to reconceptualize the sense of space.In a 2013 interview, she talked about how space is often the afterthought when considering ‘time and space’ in the social sciences. Time is given much attention as ‘the dimension of change and dynamism’ and space is relegated to inert earth ‘out there’ that we ‘cross-over’, ‘devoid of temporality.’ She points to a well held historical position in academia that if the field of history is about time, then geography must be relegated to space. Throughout her career, she worked to change that.Her research and writing aimed, “to bring space alive, to dynamize it and to make it relevant, to emphasize how important space is in the lives in which we live, and in the organization of the societies in which we live.” She offers this scenario as an example: When we are ‘crossing-over’ ‘inert land’ ‘out there’ in a car or train and glance out the window, we acknowledge we are moving through space and the physical geography is indeed part of it. But our eyes and brains also capture snapshots of people walking across a street, ordering food from a street vendor, or strolling in a park. These moments, like those on Google Street View – these interactions of people and place – are also part of the space.She surmises that,“Space concerns our relations with each other and in fact social space, I would say, is a product of our relations with each other, our connections with each other.”Mapping these concepts and phenomena is as complicated as explaining it, but dynamic mapping continues to make strides in mapping complex spatial processes. One of the most visceral examples is this 2014 video of 30,000 airplanes flying in Europe’s airspace over the course of a single day.And there are tools that help analyze air traffic flow data like this.Companies like INRIX have been studying traffic flow data on the ground for decades. Their software allows for traffic flow analysis and visualizations using real-time data from vehicles.When I take the bus I use an app called OneBusAway that shows in near real-time the location of a bus on route from origin to destination.There are also companies like StreetLight Data who buy anonymized and aggregated location data from mobile phone providers that probabilistically determine traffic flows generated from cars, bikes, and pedestrians.These are examples of dynamic cartography that approach articulations of Batty’s ‘liguid city.’ They are baby steps toward representing the dynamism Massey sought to better understand our relations and connections with each other. But they lack the richness census data provides and we’re a long way from trusting governments to track us 24/7 365 days a year as part of their routine census collection. Many people already view the census as a personal violation of privacy.At the same time, our methods are stuck in the past. When Jesus was believed to be rising from his tomb, the Israelites fleeing Egypt, or Muslims fasting as the Quran was handed down it was all happening in cities they believed to be as permanent as the religions they birthed. In the case of Jerusalem, it was. That certainty came under question during the dawning of the Enlightenment and the spread of colonialism. The Industrial Age accelerated the pace of change and innovation in technology and urban design. Society’s pace quickened and cities, and connections to them, acted as civic accelerators.In 1914 Scottish cartographer and geographer John Bartholomew created an Atlas of Economic Geography for King George V. It included a map that showed how long it would take to get to various places around the globe. It would have taken King George several weeks to traverse the boundaries of his British Empire. You can now do it in a day.There is a disconnect between the open-ended superexponential growth of ‘political boundaries’ that accelerate our pace of life and the process of determining who governs them. Representative governments are determined by methods of mapping from a bygone era. What does this say about our future?I’m with Michael Batty when he says,“I think there is much we need to say about cities as we come to terms with a world that is intricately connected and where information underpins our every act.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of our lives, including our travel habits. Listen as Bob Pishue, transportation analyst at INRIX, shares his mobility analysis that explores transportation trends including miles-driven and travel times. Download the INRIX 2020 Global Traffic Scorecard.

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Travel this long holiday weekend will be busy -- and not only by pandemic standards.Experts expect it will rival the busiest Independence Day weekend of the pre-coronavirus era. Lines at airports and jams on the highways will be back with a vengeance, they say.AAA forecasts a record number of Americans are taking to the increasingly busy roads this weekend, and warns they will encounter the most expensive July 4 gas in seven years. America's airports haven't been this busy in more than a year, and some airlines are struggling to keep up with the demand.With crowds at the airports and cars on the highways, this weekend is expected to look similar to the times before the pandemic rocked the industry.But reminders of the pandemic remain: Face masks are still required for all passengers -- even vaccinated ones -- on all public forms of transportation, including airplanes, trains and buses, and in hubs like rail stations and airports. Restrictions prevent or complicate international travel to many countries. Cruises are just restarting with some onboard changes. And while airlines are back to selling middle seats, many have not yet returned full alcohol service."Even our regular fliers are sort of first-time fliers at this point," Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, told CNN.Road trips are more popular than everThe 47.7 million Americans that AAA forecasts will travel more than 50 miles between Thursday and Monday rivals the record-setting 2019 figure of 48.9 million.The number of vacationers packing the car for a road trip, AAA expects, will be the largest ever: 43.6 million.That means roads in vacation hot spots will see an even larger influx of traffic.The transportation data firm Inrix says many cities -- from New York to Los Angeles -- are experiencing less traffic than usual this time of year, as many workers continue to sign in from home. Washington, D.C. traffic is 13 percentage points below usual, and San Francisco is down 21 percentage points. Both numbers are still higher than this time in 2020, when only 34.2 million people hit the road, AAA said.But the story is different in the nation's tourist hubs. Nine cities in Florida -- including Tampa and Orlando -- are seeing more traffic than usual."This is going to be a robust travel season," said AAA spokesman Andrew Gross.Among the factors causing families to take road trips, Gross said, is protecting unvaccinated children from crowded planes or trains, and high demand for rental cars in places they might have looked at for flights. Rental car companies that downsized fleets when demand dropped during the pandemic are now short on supply. That has driven a spike in rental prices -- when there are cars to be had.Gas prices are also climbing, and the national average of $3.12 on Thursday is the most expensive since reaching $3.66 in 2014. Prices at the pump reflect not only the demand for fuel, but the challenge to get it delivered to gas stations around the country. Some stations may run out, AAA says."It's not that we have a gas supply issue in this country," Gross said. "There just are not enough gas tank drivers available, because during the pandemic, there weren't a lot of deliveries, so these drivers -- highly in demand -- they went off and found other jobs."The unruly skiesAir travel at some vacation hot spots -- such as Nashville and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina -- is already exceeding pre-pandemic levels, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday. Officials launched a campaign to hire 6,000 workers, and the agency said it will continue staffing up through Labor Day.July 4 travel kicked off with one of the busiest days at airports in 16 months.The TSA reported screening 2,147,090 passengers on Thursday. That number fell just short of the record-setting 2.17 million screened last Sunday. TSA said it expects that record "to be outpaced over the holiday weekend."As passenger numbers climb, so do...

Chris Thomas is a Co-Founder at Partner at Assembly Ventures and he previously co-founded Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Key topics in this conversation include: Rethinking the mobility ecosystem The ISA framework for identifying and creating value for mobility The unique approach taken by Assembly Ventures The importance of candor in Chris’s life and career How Chris built a lasting relationship with Bill Ford during an internship Links: Show notes: brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/christhomas Chris’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherthomas/ Assembly Ventures Medium page: medium.com/assembly-ventures Chris’s bio: Chris Thomas is a Co-Founder at Partner at Assembly Ventures, the first trans-Atlantic mobility fund in the world based in Detroit and Berlin. Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute, entities dedicated to helping Detroit become one of the world’s foremost future mobility ecosystems and creating the future of mobility talent in North America. Prior to the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While at Fontinalis, he served as a board member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a board observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster (SPAC in December 2020) and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis, Chris served in the U.S. Army as a communications officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an investment banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a senior advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a co-owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously served as the chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems. Chris earned his master’s degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both economics and international relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the city of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Sometimes we want to avoid technology when we travel, but other times tech can actually make travel easier and more enjoyable. Stay tuned this week as we chat with Scott Tharler, The Family CTO, to get his recommendations for family travel. About Scott Tharler Married with three children, Scott Tharler is a gadget expert with over 20 years of experience writing consumer technology columns for Club Life Magazine, Gear Patrol, Maxim, Fodor's Travel, American Airlines and many others. He’s performed live gadget demonstrations on TV and radio, as well as for public schools and libraries, and at private companies and retreats. And this past fall, Scott launched The Family CTO, a new kind of gadget site to help you enhance your digital lifestyle with fun, practical gadgets. To hear the latest episode of The Family CTO podcast, just ask your smart speaker to “play The Family CTO podcast.” Or find and stream the show on your preferred podcast platform. If you’d like to see all sorts of helpful tech solution roundups, reviews and buying guides—or ask Scott a gadget-related question—head over to TheFamilyCTO.com. You can also follow Scott on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. Travel Tech Recommendations This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. RoadTrippers is great for discovering roadside attractions and local recommendations. AllTrails is helpful to find hiking trails and read reviews and see pictures from real people. GasBuddy is helpful for finding gas stations, especially those that have cheaper prices. Scosche FrescheAir portable HEPA air filter is great for getting rid of odors on long road trips. The Calm App is helpful for providing sleep sounds or helping you get to sleep at night when in a new place (or at home) For road trips, it helps to have a reliable stand for your phone, especially if you are using it for GPS. Scott recommends the GoDonut, which is a little round phone or tablet stand. Iottie is a dash or windshield phone mount with Amazon Alexa built in. Wilson Electronics WeBoost is a cell signal booster for cars. Eggtronic Power Bar is a battery that allows you to wirelessly recharges two phones and a watch at once. QuietOn Sleep Earbuds offer active noise canceling to drown out noise when trying to sleep in a hotel room. Loop Earplugs are not electronic, but they naturally attenuates concerts and loud noises and are also good for sleeping. Bringing along a Roku Streaming Stick+ or an Amazon Fire stick will help provide entertainment in the hotel room if the TV has a port that you can plug into. Nomatic accessories such as the wallet and Navigator Tech Organizer are useful for storing cords and accessories. Twelve South AirFly Pro is a 2-way Bluetooth headphones adapter for connecting two headphones / AirPods to one device. Puro Sound Labs has volume limiting Bluetooth kids’ headphones. Pictar Pro Grip is a smartphone grip, charger, and remote shutter which is great for using your phone as a camera. Insta360 Go 2 is a tiny action cam Western Digital My Passport Wireless SSD is a small wireless drive for storing extra photos. You can put the SD card from your camera into it and it will automatically back up your photos. And because it is wireless you can share it with others. SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive USB Type-C is a good back up for Android phones and the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Go is good for backing up iPhones. Inrix Driving App is a good traffic monitoring app that if you plan ahead, you it will tell you the best time to go and during your trip, it shows you the best route. ScottEVest offers great tech-oriented travel clothes with lots of pockets. SkyHour lets you donate or save money toward flight time. ACBC offers zip travel shoes for men that lets you change out the top of the shoe. Link Flip-shoes is a topless, no thong flip flop. [00:00:00.120] - Kim Tate Gadgets and gizmos galore today, we're talking about family travel tech.   [00:00:16.760] - Announcer Welcome to Vacation Mavens, a family travel podcast with ideas for your next vacation and tips to get you out the door. Here are your hosts, Kim from Stuffed Suitcase and Tamara from We3Travel.   [00:00:31.640] - Tamara Gruber So Kim we're both back from our road trips.   [00:00:34.100] - Kim Tate And I don't know why I'm cheering that. I kind of want to be back on it.   [00:00:39.020] - Tamara Gruber Don't tell your husband that. But I'm wondering, we were going a long time. You were gone a long time. Did you find any, like tech or apps or things that you found really useful on this trip?   [00:00:51.620] - Kim Tate Yes, I actually have some good things to mention. And so this is perfect timing. I think I'll start with the app thing because there are two apps that I use tons.   [00:01:01.010] - Kim Tate And the first one was called Road Trippers. And we've talked I think we've talked about road trippers in the past. And I know you and I did a giveaway of a road trippers plus membership, which I think is pretty affordable. It's I want to say twenty four dollars a year, if that sounds right. I don't know if that sounds right to you.   [00:01:18.380] - Kim Tate So they actually gave me a complimentary one to try out. And so I thought, OK, I'm planning this massive trip. And we went basically from the Oregon coast all the way down the coast of Northern California and then kind of ducked inland and went down to stay at a friend's guest house for a while. And so I planned the whole trip with this road trippers plus.   [00:01:37.310] - Kim Tate And I absolutely loved it. It was cool. I think using the app is better. At first I started just using it on my desktop, like on through a Web browser, and once I installed the app, using on your phone is way easier, but it just helps you, you know, map your route and find little that kind of like roadside attractions.   [00:01:57.230] - Kim Tate But there's some really cool stuff on there. And like there was this one part where it was like a scenic byway. And I thought, oh, that's cool. So I added it to my itinerary. And then I looked on alltrails and found a hike to go with it. So that's the other app I used was on this trip. A lot that I recommend is all trails, but yeah. So Road Trippers Plus was just cool because it people can also add photos.   [00:02:18.230] - Kim Tate And so you really get a sense of like because one was like the largest totem pole and I thought, well that's pretty cool, like my girls might like that. But then when I looked at the photos I was like, yeah, it seems kind of like a cheesy tourist stop.   [00:02:29.330] - Tamara Gruber Yeah. Like you've been to Vancouver.   [00:02:31.520] - Kim Tate Yeah, exactly. Like so so we skipped that, you know. So that's the idea is that it has some of those things. But also, you know, I finally decided on this trip, I wanted to do a drive thru tree and so I went and I got to see like what the drive through. There was three of them that are kind of the main ones that I know about. And I looked at the pictures and then also read the reviews and what people said. And it helped me decide that, like, OK, we're going to do this one that's in Klamath.   [00:02:55.940] - Kim Tate And so I really liked it for that sort of stuff because it is user generated content. So I loved that there's reviews about the spots and, you know, sometimes there's good photos and you really get a feel for it.   [00:03:07.160] - Tamara Gruber So that is what I like about all trails. You know that you can really get a sense of what you're going to see and how hard it is and things. And then, yeah. So it's nice to see it has that kind of community because I haven't done the plus a pro version, but I did look at it on my desktop when I was planning my trip, but then I ran out like the free version only has like so many stops or something.   [00:03:26.150] - Kim Tate Yeah. Yeah.   [00:03:26.840] - Tamara Gruber But I did see like we were going to drive past the what's it called. The Oh gosh. What's that movie. The baseball movie with Kevin Costner. Field Dreams. we're going to drive past that site. So I was like, oh Glenn. Like what else are we going to be in this corner of Iowa to, like, drive past that? Would you want to go? But then it turns out they were closed in March.   [00:03:44.540] - Kim Tate Oh, no, that happened to us. We wanted to go to the Martinelli cider tasting that we've done before, actually. And I was like, oh, I'm going to add that on there. But yeah, they were closed. They're not doing it right now. So I was like, oh, bummer.   [00:03:56.060] - Kim Tate But anyways, yeah. So I definitely if you're looking for new app, I think road trippers and paying for the plus, like Tamara said, you get to have as many stops as you want and so you can use it if you just want five stops and so you can get a feel for it and then you can really decide.   [00:04:12.110] - Kim Tate But using the app, like if you're doing planning on your iPad or your iPhone is the key. So that was the one thing.   [00:04:17.960] - Kim Tate And then, like you already said, all trails is huge. And I actually use that. It was so cool because we found we were driving through Oregon and I realized kind of the timing. It was a nasty, nasty day. And so the day I was going to do this big and didn't stop, it was gross. It was so windy and gross.   [00:04:35.270] - Kim Tate And I said, well, there's no point in us going because we're just going to be cold and miserable. And so then the next day, I was looking that night on trails and trying to find hikes, you know, along this stretch we were going to be doing and I found a dune, you know, a dune hike. And it was this random, like I never would have known where it was. It was like John P. Duganhim trailhead or something like that.   [00:04:58.940] - Kim Tate And I wouldn't have known to go there. And sure enough, it was a tiny parking lot, probably ten cars. And we parked and we we hiked maybe a quarter of a mile in.   [00:05:07.520] - Kim Tate And then all of a sudden we came out to this amazing, huge, like massive felt like the Arabian desert sand dunes. So awesome. Yeah, and if it wouldn't have been for all trails and just kind of looking and like you said, you know, being able to see the photos that people have submitted and really getting a feel like I like all trails because it shows you like the actual route and it gives you the distance.   [00:05:29.490] - Kim Tate So you can see like, oh, it's a loop, it's not back and it's just it works really well. And then it has a really cool, like getting there section for most of the trails, not all of them. And it helps you.   [00:05:39.870] - Kim Tate Like I said, it helped me go OK, right after the city. I need to kind of be looking because there's this campground. It's the turns right after that. Yeah. Yeah.   [00:05:48.360] - Tamara Gruber So that sounds fun. So any other tech or apps that you used?   [00:05:52.560] - Kim Tate Yeah. So another app, one more app. And then I have one tech thing. So another app that I loved was called Gas Buddy and I've heard of that before and I know I used it in the olden days like when it first came out, but I actually got it again and I found it really useful on a road trip because I actually ended up using Costco gas stations a lot.   [00:06:10.140] - Kim Tate And same with Fred Meyer because we're Costco members. And like at one place, we saved 30 cents per gallon by just driving a mile down the road and going to a Costco instead. And so, you know, I mean, it's not always worth it, but at 30 cents a gallon, it saved us about five or six bucks. So it was worth the little one mile down the road type thing.   [00:06:28.440] - Kim Tate But I think gas buddy's just great because you can really see that, oh, in this city, should I fill up now where our hotel is or should we get on the road for an hour and then fill up? Because I'm I kind of like to keep my gas really full, especially when I'm traveling on my own. Yeah. I'm like, once it gets below a half a tank, I'm like, okay, keep my eyes open, you know, where's where's the next gas fill up?   [00:06:48.000] - Kim Tate I'm going to do so anyways. But yes, a gas buddy was good. And then the one piece of tech that I absolutely loved and like full disclosure, these guys sent me this item by skosh and I got it from CES, which took place virtually in January.   [00:07:02.340] - Kim Tate It's called The Fresh Air HEPA Air Purifier. It's an air purifier that's like a cylinder. So it almost is like a coffee tumbler type thing. And it actually fits perfectly like in a cup holder in a car.   [00:07:14.190] - Kim Tate And I was wondering, I'm like, OK, how much use are my going to get on this? But we're going on a road trip. So I said, sure, send it to me, I'll try it out.   [00:07:20.820] - Kim Tate And it was so useful for these days of like eating in the car, because I will admit we ate McDonald's a couple of times and then one time we actually got like fish in the car, like fish and chips and coleslaw, and we're eating it in the car. And even though you throw the garbage away, your car still kind of stinks. And I turn this thing on after we would eat. And it really worked like it was amazing. And then the next morning, because almost every day for me, I have a really sensitive nose.   [00:07:46.140] - Kim Tate And so. Yeah. So you know how you park in the hotel and like, you don't really notice it because you've been in the car the whole day.   [00:07:51.750] - Kim Tate But then you go sleep in the hotel and then you come out the next morning, you open your car and you're like, OK, yeah, it smells like fish or McDonald's or whatever. I did not experience that on this trip at all. And so I think this thing really helps. So anyway, that's my one piece of advice   [00:08:05.220] - Tamara Gruber We ate in the car a ton also because it was just safer and I told Hannah, she's going to turn into a chicken nugget because they're going to start, like, calling her Nugget. I think we had more fast food in those two weeks than we've had like the last two years. It was crazy, but it's just easier and honestly, like it felt safer, like some of those kind of things. So, yeah, usually I would love to do all the local stuff, but we didn't this time, so I could have used that for sure.   [00:08:30.540] - Kim Tate Yeah, it's and I mean it is, I think it's, I think it's ninety nine dollars so it's not cheap, cheap. But if you do spend a lot of time in the car, I was, I was impressed with it. I felt like it worked. So I'm just thinking also like after picking up kids from athletic practice might be good.   [00:08:46.080] - Tamara Gruber Definitely. Yeah, for sure. So I remember even when we were we were talking a couple of years ago about that road trip that you took out West with like a bunch of teenagers near like.   [00:08:56.910] - Kim Tate Yes. Their feet. Yes. Yes, I remember that. Yeah. Perfect timing for, like, you know, summer road trips with teens.   [00:09:05.130] - Tamara Gruber Well, those are definitely good recommendations. I would feel like we didn't use nearly as much, although I will say that I lived with the Calm App because I needed that to for background noise, for sleeping.   [00:09:18.510] - Tamara Gruber And I also tried I think we're going to talk about this when we get into our interview. But I did just get some air pod pros and they're supposed to be noise canceling. But let me tell you, it's not quite enough to block out my husband's snoring. And the other thing is I didn't realize how short their time frame was because I used to have, like, the Bose sleep buds and they would last night. So these like go, they stop, they run out of battery at like six hours or so.   [00:09:44.220] - Tamara Gruber And so I would find myself like waking up and then I would take them out and I would like put them in the, you know, in the charger and like just like kind of like doze a little bit, hold it in my hand for a while. Then when, like, it always seemed the time of morning when Glenn got really loud.   [00:09:58.440] - Tamara Gruber So then I would put him back in for like another hour or so, like I need to charge these things. But the calm app at least, you know, like, well, it does do some calming. I actually enjoy it for sleeping, but I like the this kind of the sounds that they have.   [00:10:12.120] - Tamara Gruber So, yeah, that was really my only thing, although I definitely need. Those little tinier, you know, earplug things that go in the ear, yes, these things definitely still hurt as a side sleeper.   [00:10:23.400] - Kim Tate So, yeah, I, I couldn't handle that because like you said, I'm a side sleeper, so.   [00:10:28.950] - Tamara Gruber Well, I know that Scott has a lot of other recommendations for us, so why don't we jump over and start chatting with him and find out what other tech he has to recommend.   [00:10:45.960] - Tamara Gruber So today we're here with Scott Tharler, and he's a gadget expert with over 20 years of experience writing consumer technology columns for Club Life magazine gear patrol Maxim, Fodor's Travel, American Airlines and others. He's also performed live gadget demonstrations on TV and radio, as well as for public schools and libraries.   [00:11:03.900] - Tamara Gruber And this past fall, Scott also launched the Family CTO, which is a new kind of gadget site which helps you enhance your digital lifestyle with fun and practical gadgets. So welcome, Scott.   [00:11:14.340] - Scott Tharler Hey, thanks for having me here.   [00:11:16.110] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, it's nice to talk to a gadget guy because I think, you know, I know Kim has reviewed quite a bit of gear in the past, you know, on her website. And I come from a tech background. So I think we both have that in our brains, which is probably why we started podcasting together, too.   [00:11:32.820] - Kim Tate Yeah, I'm excited. I've always kind of been an early adopter, too, which my husband hates because he he never buys the first iteration of something. He always waits a little longer. And I'm sort of getting into his line of thinking, but I still like having the brand new gadget.   [00:11:46.860] - Scott Tharler Well, there's something nice about having something that helps you out when you need it most. And I'm so into travel tech because that's it's the whole reason I got into gadgets. It's when you want something to help you enjoy stuff more or you want to make sure that you're connected and whatever that means to you, tech can help you on your trip.   [00:12:07.980] - Tamara Gruber So before we jump into some specific tech recommendations, can you tell us a little bit about, like, your family and how did you get into tech as a career?   [00:12:17.740] - Scott Tharler Sure, well, I'm married with three kids, they are 10, eight and four, which is they are interesting ages. I think every age is an interesting age, but those are interesting as they're starting to get to those preteen and teen years.   [00:12:32.410] - Scott Tharler I got into gadgets, I guess I was always into watches. I first started getting into watches, probably when I was about my kids' age. I was like eight or ten and I had a fancy watch that could not only digitally tell you the time, but the seconds. And it had an alarm like that's what passed for fancy back then. And from there that was like my gateway drug to gadgets. I had watches that could tell you the temperature, that had a calculator that played games that could dial the phone.   [00:13:04.540] - Scott Tharler And it's very funny now because I don't even wear a watch now. But watches were kind of how I got into it because I just love the idea of always having some tech with me.   [00:13:13.960] - Kim Tate That's cool. I was always jealous. I was not a Swatch kid. I wanted a Swatch, but my family couldn't afford one. So when you speak of watches, I kind of have these flashbacks to my nervousness of people who own the Swatch watches. And I remember playing Snake on a couple watch I had at some point.   [00:13:34.300] - Scott Tharler Yeah, there's definitely some Swatch envy out there, but I, I still look at watches. I'm jealous of my kids because now their watches have cameras and stuff built in and apps and they're listening to music from them and stuff like I literally couldn't have even dreamed of back then.   [00:13:51.940] - Kim Tate So we know that Tamara and I, we love tech and we're definitely into it. And so we're definitely excited about this and helping our listeners learn a little more about maybe some cool travel tech.   [00:14:02.650] - Kim Tate So outside of your phone, what do you think is the best tech gadget that somebody could bring with them when they're traveling?   [00:14:10.500] - Scott Tharler You know, it's a tough one because there's so many, you know, on some level, I'm I'm almost disappointed if I don't get stopped going through TSA because it's like, dude, I have so many things with me, I'm going to say something disappointing. My most favorite gadget is just my brain, because I am always thinking, like, OK, what am I going to be doing?   [00:14:31.380] - Scott Tharler How am I going to be using this? And so what winds up happening is there's not just one special gadget, but I take a lot of time to pack cords and adapters and accessories to make sure that I have what I need so that if I'm in the car, you know, OK, we're going to be renting a car. So I'm going to want to bring a car adapter so I can charge my stuff in the car or I want an audio, Jack, so I can make sure that if I want to play something from the TV in this place that we're staying at, that I can play it on this.   [00:15:06.060] - Scott Tharler So it tends to be more functional stuff. And I start packing. My wife will say, like, oh, are you packed already? I'm like, yeah, yeah. I just need to throw some clothes in a bag. Like I always have trousers.   [00:15:20.910] - Scott Tharler It's always electronics first because I really it's like when you pack you think, what am I going to be doing? I'm going to be going hiking. So I need comfortable shoes, comfortable socks and a water bottle and a hat. I do the same thing, but I think I want to make sure that my water bottle has a sensor on it to tell me that I'm drinking enough water. And given that we're going to be hiking, I'll probably want to bring a three hundred and sixty degree camera so that I can take pictures of everything around me and really get some great panoramic shots.   [00:15:50.820] - Tamara Gruber So you're not a minimalist, I think is what you're saying when it comes to to travel?   [00:15:55.980] - Scott Tharler I, I try to be I'm in theory. Well, when I'm packing, I'm not a minimalist. I have all sorts of redundancy when I'm packing. But when I actually go out. Yeah. I don't want to be schlepping around. You know, if we're at a waterfall in a state park, I want to be enjoying the waterfall. I don't want to be fumbling through my bag looking for just the right stand or just the right camera, just the right anything. It's important to know when to put your gadgets down and actually just enjoy where you are.   [00:16:25.730] - Kim Tate Yeah, I think that's a great point.   [00:16:26.930] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, and there's only so much you can fit in your bag, I always find, like I finally ended up selling my drone because I found I was always trying to bring, like, a tripod, my camera, the drone, all the cords, your laptop, you know, like ever your GoPro for the actual shots and too much stuff.   [00:16:45.090] - Tamara Gruber Yeah. But anyway, I thought it would be helpful if we kind of break it down into different kinds of travel when we're talking about family travel and see, you know, maybe some of your recommendations for that type of environment, you know, what will help us in, you know, different types of travel environments. So maybe we can start with road trips since a lot of people are doing those right now. Do you have any tech gadgets that you would really recommend for people going on a road trip?   [00:17:08.120] - Tamara Gruber And I say this, Kim and I are both, you know, have big road trips coming up, so.   [00:17:12.720] - Scott Tharler So the first one I mentioned is a car adapter. There are plenty of ones where there are very small ones that can charge to a USB like a regular if you have your charging cord with you and they can do a USB, see if you have that kind of a device. So I would look for something small that can charge multiple devices at once.   [00:17:34.020] - Scott Tharler And then also I think stands are important things that hold your phone or your tablet in place. I just got this really interesting one called a go donut, and I do not like the name of it, but it is actually it's like four inches across. I'm actually holding one right now and it's like the size of a donut. And then it has these slits in there that allow you to put your phone or tablet at different angles. And so you could put this on, say, the armrest and then everybody in the back seat is watching something.   [00:18:05.640] - Scott Tharler So that's cool. There are other ones out there that are more they would keep it more secure. So if you're bouncing all over the place, you don't have to worry about it going. This is I mean, it's pretty steady, but there are other things that I bring along that are more like a clamp that clamps on to one end and then it clamps your phone into place.   [00:18:24.180] - Kim Tate Yeah, I've seen those that, like, clamp onto the headrest and then lock in the phone. And I've always felt like those were a little safe, you know, nice. A little bit of a safety in case there was an accident or something. You don't have this projectile flying around.   [00:18:35.580] - Scott Tharler Yeah, you don't. You want as a rule, you want like the fewest number of things flying around the cabin. So there's actually one there's a company called Iotti and I'll send you a link and we can put it in the show notes. But they have this it looks sort of like a charging stand, but it's a suction cup that goes to an arm and holds your phone in place. And it actually has Alexa built in. And so you have your Amazon smart assistant with you in the phone, in the car, and then you basically just tell in the app, the Alexa app, that you want this to work.   [00:19:12.060] - Scott Tharler So I know that whenever we go someplace, we go to an Airbnb or a hotel or whatever, the kids feel like they're more at home. If Alexa is there and I'm not going to bring the Alexa speaker everywhere we go, but it's nice to know if you're in the car, you can say, hey, Alexa, how far are we from the nearest restaurant or whatever? And it's a it's a hands free thing. So you don't have to worry about, you know, fumbling with your phone or your tablet while you're driving.   [00:19:40.140] - Tamara Gruber I wish I had something like that when my daughter was little and she would just ask so many questions when we were driving. And I was always like, why don't you write that down in your notebook and we'll look that up when we get home because mommy didn't know the answers.   [00:19:53.610] - Scott Tharler Yeah, there are so many ways of passing the time. And I think, you know, I think gadgets are one way, but I like the fact that my kids are getting old enough that we can do all sorts of fun word games and math games and more of like the kind of things that I would do as a kid to pass the time when I wasn't we didn't have phones or anything like we didn't even read in the car. It was just sort of playing games.   [00:20:17.910] - Scott Tharler And so there's part of that. But for people who do use their phones and tablets a lot, it's good to have something like we boost, which is basically it boosts your cellular. So if you're going to be driving and getting, you know, a change of scenery, you could be going through some parts that you're only getting one or two bars. And so it's good to know that you have connectivity. And so there are things that are it's either a stand that you put your phone in or it could be something that boosts several devices, like whatever devices are in the car so that you always have cellular service.   [00:20:53.700] - Scott Tharler And I think that's a good one for people who are thinking about road trips. That's really cool.   [00:20:58.680] - Kim Tate Yeah. Especially as since so many of us rely on our phone GPS and you have those little moments where it's like, I can't find you any longer and you're driving along hoping that you're not going to miss a turn. Yeah, yeah.   [00:21:09.810] - Tamara Gruber It looks like you're driving through outer space or you're off the road.   [00:21:14.640] - Kim Tate Anything else about road trips?   [00:21:17.130] - Scott Tharler Road trips are interesting because it's not like when you're flying, you think I want to bring the fewest number of things possible and things need to be light. When you're bringing stuff on a road trip, then that's when I would think about bringing a drone instead of, you know, a different camera. So there are drones that sometimes I'll bring a drone along.   [00:21:39.390] - Scott Tharler It's not like an always thing. But I do think that there's some things that you think like, oh, I'll I'll just put this in the back and then if I use it, it's OK. Coolers are a good example. Actually, it's funny because they're not really super techie, but I started to write a piece about Cooler's because I love the the family CTO is all about the lifestyle and like, what are you doing? What problem are you solving?   [00:22:02.760] - Scott Tharler And there are a lot of different colors. And I didn't know until I did the research that in this article I'm going over like ten different kinds of cooler's. So, for instance, you might have a backpack cooler if you're going hiking, you might have something where it's more about the kind that you put when you're rolling onto the beach. So you want to make sure it has good wheels that go in the sand or there might be a different kind that does better for ice retention if you're going out camping.   [00:22:29.900] - Scott Tharler And so it really depends on the kind of trip. And so for all of these gadgets, it's thinking about what are you going to do and how can the technology serve you rather than how do I get 100 gadgets into my car? It's really thinking about the the purpose of the gadgets.   [00:22:47.780] - Kim Tate Yeah, I think you have to think also quickly about Coolers. We have like a little mini fridge for cars. That's supposed to be like a cooler. But we've realized it's really a pain in a way because it's really hard to open the door unless you keep a cushion kind of around it. So you can't pack the car as tight as you'd want, whereas if you have one that opens from the top, you could just open it and grab something out of it.   [00:23:08.090] - Kim Tate And then when they started inventing the car light, I don't know, I'm so old. I just noticed a cigarette light adapter. But whatever that's called and the 120 volt or something in the back, those worked so well because he could plug those fridges right in the back. But we still have older cars and so we don't have one of those. But when we've rented cars on a trip, it's been nice to be able to plug directly in back there instead of having a big cord going all the way up to the front.   [00:23:33.380] - Scott Tharler Yeah, and they have some now. There's a company called Go Son that has essentially the ice list cooler and it's solar powered. So you can not even have to worry about that. You can charge it up beforehand and then use solar to just keep it going if you're especially if you're out camping and stuff like that and you have some sunshine.   [00:23:52.250] - Kim Tate That's awesome. Oh, well, what about for hotel rooms and vacation rentals, you know? And I have a few of those coming up. So any products that you think, you know, we mentioned the Alexa, but anything else you think maybe makes it feel a little more comfortable tech wise?   [00:24:08.820] - Scott Tharler Yeah, I mean, tech wise, the first two things I always think of are basically power and audio or power and entertainment.   [00:24:17.520] - Scott Tharler So for power, I have this thing here called the Egg Tronic Power Bar, and you can't see it because we're on a podcast. But it's essentially like it looks like a bar that's about the size of a maybe a thicker version of like a big remote control. And then there are three spots on it. And it's essentially a battery that you can wirelessly charge like two phones and a smartwatch on at the same time. And I love that because I don't want to have to start worrying about where am I digging for outlets.   [00:24:48.360] - Scott Tharler And I'm not going to bring the same dock that I have by the side of my bed. You know, I don't want to start worrying about that. And so it's nice and portable and it's a big battery. So it is going to charge like three things and and be good. What's another one? I think for entertainment stuff, you could bring a streaming stick. So like a Roku or an Amazon fire stick. Those are fun to bring because it's little.   [00:25:14.220] - Scott Tharler And if you're someplace where either they don't have a lot of TV or you get stuck on a rainy day, you can sort of plug in your streaming stick, whatever it is, into the HDMI port of the back of the TV and then give it power. You do have to remember to bring your remote. I've done that where I forgot to bring the remote. But if you do that, then essentially it's like you're bringing your entire collection of entertainment like you never, never in the old days would you have brought like a DVD player and a remote and three hundred DVDs.   [00:25:46.440] - Scott Tharler But this you're just bringing bringing something that's like the size of a USB drive and you basically have all your movies. So I like the idea of doing that. It just has to connect to whatever the the Wi-Fi is.   [00:25:59.250] - Kim Tate And my girls actually we've forgotten remotes before, but they'll use their phones. So I guess at least with the Amazon fire, it has an app that you can use as a remote on your phone.   [00:26:07.980] - Scott Tharler So, yeah, and that's a great backup. I've actually had to do that with the Roku before. So as long as as long as your phone is on the same Wi-Fi network as the streaming stick, then that's a great workaround.   [00:26:20.400] - Tamara Gruber It's funny, my daughter just asked me the other day, I think the Grammys are going to be on on a certain night or some awards show that she went to watch while we were traveling.   [00:26:28.560] - Tamara Gruber And she's like, do you think the hotel will have CBS? They are so used, like only doing streaming kind of stuff they don't even know, like regular TV?   [00:26:38.700] - Scott Tharler Yeah, yeah. I my kids are growing up in a very interesting world where, like, if they can't listen to the exact song that they want or watch the exact movie that they want. Right. Then, then they're just befuddled. Like, why can't we? Because in the olden days we had to wait for things like we had to wait for a commercial.   [00:26:57.450] - Scott Tharler And then when The Wizard of Oz comes on once a year, you see it. You don't just say, like, you know, play Wizard of Oz and then it just shows up.   [00:27:04.200] - Kim Tate Yeah, we actually just had that last night where we were going to watch a movie and, you know, they were ready to just rent it for three bucks. And I was like, well, let me just check and see if it's on anything, because we have all these services and then we also pay for Comcast. And sure enough, it was free on Comcast through like Fox Channel or whatever. And they were like, oh, but it has ads and commercials, mom. I'm like, too bad we're going to take advantage of this like free streaming and not pay three bucks for it.   [00:27:33.990] - Kim Tate But they're just so like they just expect that they can just get it. And it's kind of funny. And we also happen to pay for Spotify, even though we already pay for YouTube music because they like Spotify and all their friends are on Spotify. And so I don't know. This tech tech world is when you have teenagers, it becomes a another level.   [00:27:54.180] - Scott Tharler Yeah, I mean, you were talking about swatches, I remember there was a thing when I was in junior high school of that people would have these jackets that could pack into themselves and it was like fold up jacket and everybody had it.   [00:28:08.160] - Scott Tharler And so, you know, that's one thing if you're buying like a 30 dollar jacket, but then there's like headphones and laptops and phones and there's so much stuff that teenagers are going to want to have that that seems overwhelming to me. So that's sort of what I'm bracing for. So you mentioned if you go to a vacation house or a rental or something like that, one of the things you might not be used to are the sounds that are going on.   [00:28:32.160] - Scott Tharler And so I like to bring they're either passive or active noise canceling earbuds. And by passive, I mean it literally is just an earplug. And there's a particular brand called Loop that I like. And then for active, that's more of what you're used to for noise canceling. But these are tiny. There's a company out of Finland called Quiet On and they're so small that they fit into your ears and you can actually sleep with them on and they will last the whole night.   [00:28:58.950] - Scott Tharler And it makes a big difference if it is canceled out snoring and other environmental sounds that I just didn't want to hear that help me sleep better on vacation because you want to be you want to be actually awake to enjoy your vacation. So it's nice to to be fully rested.   [00:29:14.450] - Tamara Gruber I'm gonna have to look those up because I think I've talked about on the podcast before, I used to use the Bose sleep buds and then the battery stopped working and then the company recalled them actually because they couldn't get the battery to work and actually refunded me, even though it was I had had the product for a year. And I've been wanting them to come out with a new one. I think they did just come out with a new one. But then I also just recently finally gave in and got the Apple AirPods that are noise canceling.   [00:29:39.870] - Tamara Gruber So they're not as small. So obviously not as comfortable, but they at least are multipurpose. But those sound those aren't great because that is always my issue is snoring and definitely any hall noise. When you're in a hotel like I can't stand when people walk by, like late at night making lots of noise or you're near the elevator or the ice machine, you know, something like that. Yeah.   [00:29:59.460] - Scott Tharler Or people that don't realize that, like after 10:00 p.m., maybe just don't stand in the hallway talking. They're actually other people who are families who might want to get to sleep. I always feel like such an old person saying that. But, you know, we just paid to come down here, stayed at Disney Resort and we're going to be going before the park opens. So maybe get back into your room and have that conversation.   [00:30:19.900] - Tamara Gruber That's why I hate when you either know that there's a wedding there because, you know, there's going to be the drunk people coming back late or when there's some kind of sports sports team tournament, it's those kids are going to be like, we're running up and down the hallways.   [00:30:31.180] - Tamara Gruber Yep, yep. So we talked about kind of in the hotel room where vacation rental. We talked about in the car. I know it's been a long time since we've flown. We're probably a lot of us, maybe not everybody. But, you know, what are some things that you would recommend to use on a flight to make it more comfortable or more enjoyable?   [00:30:50.040] - Scott Tharler Well, you know, I said that I am very much into the adapters and the cables and everything, but I don't want to be reaching into my bag until like a rat's nest of stuff to try to get at whatever I'm getting at.   [00:31:03.420] - Scott Tharler So I like having an organizer that's just four cables and little accessories like that. There's a great company you probably know about them called Nomatic. And it's that the last part of it is spelled like automatic. So Nomatic has great suitcases and bags. And I just discovered that they have some other sort of everyday carriers, like a wallet, a very minimalist wallet that just carries your cash and cards in with this little material, as you can imagine. And then they have this thing that they just call their travel organizer.   [00:31:35.220] - Scott Tharler That's exactly for what I just said. So it carries spare batteries and earbuds and memory cards and all your wires and things so that when you you know that you want to take something from that out, you can just pull out one thing, open it up, and there you have it. So I like that. You know, the old thing used to be, like you said, Bose, like everybody, you would walk down the aisle and you could just see like 20 different people wearing Bose headphones.   [00:32:01.140] - Scott Tharler And those are great. But it's not it's not the first thing I think of. I think of like, are my kids going to be set? And I'm not necessarily going to get them three hundred dollar headphones. So I like the idea of getting them their own headphones. There's a company called Puro that makes great kids' headphones that are actually stylish and they are a volume limiting so they can't crank it up over eighty five decibels, which can cause hearing damage.   [00:32:29.250] - Scott Tharler So I love Puro headphones for that.   [00:32:32.190] - Scott Tharler And then the most important little accessory you can have sometimes, especially if you have two kids, is a splitter, but they actually make them. Now there's a company called 12 s that make something called the Air Fly Pro and it's basically a Bluetooth adapter. And so it works both ways. So way number one is that if you plug this into the armrest or sometimes they have like an audio jack in the back of the headrest, you plug this in and then you can have two different sets of Bluetooth earphones listening to that same audio, whatever that is. So that's a great thing to stop fights for 90 minutes.   [00:33:13.830] - Kim Tate But it actually works important because I can't tell you how many times I've seen people bring Bluetooth headphones on a flight without their, you know, the cord that all the Bluetooth come with. But they forget the cord because they're just used to using Bluetooth and then they have the seatback entertainment for like a long international flight and they can't do anything that they have to ask for.   [00:33:32.250] - Kim Tate One of the pay five dollars for the cheap, you know, dollar store earbuds from the airline.   [00:33:37.770] - Tamara Gruber I still have like a JetBlue survey in my little travel kit, because for Hannah, I've had to do that a few times.   [00:33:43.090] - Scott Tharler Yeah, yeah. It's awful. And these actually this 12 South product I just mentioned, there's another kind of Bluetooth adapter, which is it can take wird headphones and make them Bluetooth so it works the other way. So if you have your favorite wired headphones or earbuds or whatever, you can plug those into this and then it can be Bluetooth to whatever your phone or whatever is the source of playing the music. Cool, and I'll give one shout out of something that happened to me is, you know, wireless earbuds are so popular and like air pods, they actually have like little and this is not techie, but I don't know what you would call it.   [00:34:23.460] - Kim Tate It reminds me of like glasses holders like that. You would keep on a pair of glasses to be able to hang there. But I had an earbud in and I was kind of falling asleep and it popped out of my ear. And then I'm like looking all over the floor for this earbud that just fell down. And, you know, it's not a good you don't want to be digging around for a earbud on the floor of an airplane.   [00:34:42.660] - Kim Tate So just a heads up that if you are using earbuds, it might, you know, see if you can look into any that have a some kind of like especially it works with the airports. I know where you can keep them together. So if one pops out, you don't. It's attached to the other one.   [00:34:56.910] - Tamara Gruber Still, I feel like that's why they make the announcement now. Like if you lose something, don't you know, like call your flight attendant or something. Yeah.   [00:35:05.430] - Scott Tharler Yeah. I don't want to be digging around on the floor for anything that's I don't know. Everybody has their own thing with germs in most places like around my house, if something falls on the floor, I will pick it up and eat it. That's fine. But there's certain floors where I just go like I don't even like walking around. Hotel room floor is like without socks on. So I don't know.   [00:35:28.650] - Kim Tate I hear you there. Well, why don't we move on and just quickly chat about photography? Because a huge part of travel is taking photos. So I know this can go down a huge you know, it could be an episode on its own, but just, you know, kind of top level. Do you have any favorite gear that you like to bring on family vacations for photography? Yeah, definitely, there are a bunch of different factors, I won't go into drones because we talked about that.   [00:35:54.430] - Scott Tharler I think one thing is most people don't even think about bringing a traditional camera, you know, like the old school camera. And so if you're going to be using your smartphone, then there are a couple of things that you can do to make it even better. There's a company called Pictou that has something called the they're pro grip, that it does a few things. First of all, it looks like sort of half of a camera. And so it looks and feels like you're holding a camera.   [00:36:23.770] - Scott Tharler So it's not you don't have to do that weird thing where you're like scissoring your your pinky and your pointer to try to hold your camera when you're taking pictures. But it actually will charge your phone while it's in there and it has some actual real life buttons on there. So you can do things like bring up a different mode or zoom in or actually take the picture by clicking a button, which is nice because then you don't have to, like, look away and fumble and touch your screen.   [00:36:50.770] - Scott Tharler So having something like that is fun. Another thing if you're going to be using your phone is a gimble. Have you guys ever used a gimble when shooting photos or videos? Yeah, we've. Yeah, yeah.   [00:37:03.280] - Kim Tate I own the Osmo pockets but and then the Osmo mobile too so.   [00:37:11.290] - Scott Tharler Yeah. So like that's the DJI product. A lot of these drone companies realize they're making things that allow the drones to be steady and take great pictures. Hey, why don't we make everybody's picture study. So I would recommend having a gimble with you.   [00:37:26.090] - Kim Tate I think for video mainly like if you're shooting video is what I've noticed on that. So, yeah, kind of my go to for that.   [00:37:32.890] - Scott Tharler There's sort of something nostalgic like when you picture, if you picture like your parents, your grandparents like, oh, remember those pictures we took from Bermuda in the fifties? You picture it being kind of shaky. So there's something nice about it. But if you plan on watching something for more than like two minutes, like you really don't want shaky video. So it's nice to just get rid of that. Another thing that's good to have is if you're going to be taking a lot of pictures and videos, that's going to take up a lot of memory.   [00:37:57.160] - Scott Tharler And so it's good to have a back up of memory. And so Western Digital makes a product that's basically like a wireless drive. It's about let's say I have it here. It's like about six inches by six inches and maybe an inch thick. And you can take if you do have a camera that you're shooting off of, you can take the memory card from that, put it in, and it will automatically back up your pictures. And it's a wireless drive, meaning that you can then everybody on their own phones can load up the app and see whatever pictures or video you shot from that.   [00:38:34.180] - Scott Tharler So you could actually have a bunch of videos that are just on there. And then if you're waiting at the airport, you could be everybody could be looking at pictures and watching them and talking about them on their phones and stuff.   [00:38:45.580] - Scott Tharler So I like having a way of backing up stuff so that I don't lose pictures that I've taken. I guess another one would be there's a company called Insta 360. And I actually just talked about this product called the Go on my podcast, and it's like the size of your pinky. And they just came out with the go to just this week. And it's so small that I read somewhere that it weighs the same as six pieces of paper. Like, it's super duper small and this is the kind of thing that you could wear and you can program it to just take pictures like every 30 seconds or every whatever.   [00:39:26.620] - Scott Tharler And so it's a great action cam because it actually does it uses some software to do some stabilization optically. And then it's just also good because there are a lot of fun effects.   [00:39:40.360] - Scott Tharler You can do slow motion, you can do time lapse. So like if you want to see, you know, it's kind of pretty to see a time lapse picture of, like the clouds going by along the beach in Hawaii or seeing a sunset or just seeing the rush of people in a city. So there are a lot of different fun effects that you can do and they make it really easy to edit stuff. And so it's a great little camera.   [00:40:01.540] - Scott Tharler But really, the secret sauce is the editing. It's so easy to make really fun effects and it's just a new way. Instead of like, you know, in the old days, you take a picture, you print it out, you look at it like that's all there is to do with it. This there's so many different ways of sort of making your memories into a more of a multimedia experience. So I like their stuff. So what does that look like?   [00:40:24.850] - Tamara Gruber I'm just trying to, like, picture how small it is. Is it you like clips on?   [00:40:30.320] - Scott Tharler Yeah, so they have different mounts and clips, the one that I have, the original one is it has a magnetic back. So you would put like the magnetic back one little piece of it under your shirt and then this on your shirt on their website. They show people literally like it's on a sweatband or on a hat. You can clip it on there.   [00:40:48.410] - Scott Tharler So it's more of like your eyes, your perspective, but it is tiny. And so there is sort of a conundrum with with having tiny tech. Like you just said, the last thing you want is to have a couple hundred dollar action cam falling on the floor of your airplane and then you don't know where it is or that you lose it in your Airbnb or wherever you are. So they have some some really good accessories that help you mount it to different places because they want you to be mounting onto your bike or your car or whatever so that you can take some interesting shots.   [00:41:22.060] - Tamara Gruber Kim, all I can think about is how many how much photo editing you're doing to, like, straighten the horizon.   [00:41:27.140] - Kim Tate Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It sounds like it's like stitching together and so   [00:41:35.210] - Scott Tharler yeah, it'll stitch it together and then it's all this artificial intelligence stuff that you basically upload this stuff and it says, OK, I will tell you what your best shots were or I will put together a montage of like all the coolest video that you did. So that's that's what makes it really cool, I think. Yeah.   [00:41:56.180] - Tamara Gruber But otherwise it sounds a little bit overwhelming. I'm just thinking back to back in the day when we would all come back from a trip and make like a photo book, you know, like how many of those photo books did we actually do? And, you know, like kind of I know I gave up on them in about twenty fifteen or something like that.   [00:42:13.010] - Tamara Gruber But so that's we've certainly covered a lot so far. I'm just curious. We've talked a lot about hardware, but do you have any favorite travel apps that you like to use when you're planning?   [00:42:23.990] - Scott Tharler You know, I'm so boring when it comes to that. I really just use Kayak to to look at what the best flights are because I just love the granularity of being able to say, you know, I want under this price range with no red eyes going through these airports. But for these dates, I tend to book hotels on Priceline. And because I do, I've become like a VIP gold. And so I just like the express deals. And if I what I like about Priceline is that you can get a good rate, but it it really rewards flexibility, which most travel does like.   [00:42:59.780] - Scott Tharler And so if you don't have to stay in an exact place at an exact time, you just know, I want to be somewhere near Charlottesville because we're going to go on the Skyline Drive. And so, you know, within twenty miles you can find something that is a good deal. So I like those you know, there actually some apps I've used. You're talking about road trips. There's one called INRIX. That is a it's basically a traffic monitoring.   [00:43:26.960] - Scott Tharler And I know other people use Waze or just Google Maps. It's sort of built in. But INRIX, I found if you say I'm going from here to here, it's the most accurate way of doing real time updates to say actually based on traffic, we think it would be best if you went this way. And then it has another interesting thing where you can slide the timeline. So it would say like, OK, it's three thirty, but what if we left at four and it will use whatever fancy eye is out there thinking of what's going to happen with the traffic to say, you know, if you go at three thirty, it's going to take you an hour. But if you go at four, it's only going to take you thirty five minutes.   [00:44:04.580] - Scott Tharler So I kind of like that. Other than that, I think there's there actually some interesting things that are more like programs that I found. My daughter is currently in the fourth grade and apparently that's a magical age because there's a program that the government has called every kid outdoors where they get like a free pass to every state park or every national park. Every national park. Yeah.   [00:44:27.920] - Kim Tate And so and they actually expand it to fifth graders this year as well because of the shutdown last year.   [00:44:33.410] - Scott Tharler Yeah, and that's great. And there was another thing here I happened to be in in New York. And they have there's a program called Ski in New York where fourth graders can ski for free. So it's a golden time to be nine or ten years old. Like, there's all sorts of fun things, but I think it's just a matter of sort of looking out there and seeing what cool programs happen to be out there. The the only thing that I don't know if you've heard of, there's a site out there called Sky Hour.   [00:44:58.250] - Scott Tharler Have you heard of that one? Sky Hour our is an interesting one.   [00:45:02.210] - Kim Tate I know you can imagine what it does, but.   [00:45:04.010] - Scott Tharler Yeah, yeah. No, it's like you when you recently had I think her name is Danielle from the the thought card, she was talking about saving up for trips. It's actually something to help you save up for trips, but it's something where people can help out. And the basis of it is that you pay for hours of flight, you're not paying for distance. You're not paying for like this is how much it is.   [00:45:25.790] - Scott Tharler You literally I think it's something like, you know, it's sixty dollars. For an hour of flight and so you can start to do the math and realize, like if you're going to Florida or California, that might not make sense, but actually going to Europe, that's not that crazy. Like, it's not that crazy that you would pay for, you know, five or six hours to certain places in Europe. And so if I know you're going on a trip, I could say, hey, Kim, I'm going to donate an hour to your trip and then either other people add more hours to that or you just pay whatever the differences.   [00:45:58.930] - Scott Tharler But it's basically good on any airlines. You're just paying for something that then gets instead of transferring points into a flight, it's if you have the right number of hours that turns into a flight. So I just thought that was an interesting spin on things I hadn't seen before. That's really cool.   [00:46:15.430] - Kim Tate Yeah, I was thinking it was going to be I know there's websites that'll show you like the Sunrise and Sunset Times for specific locations so that you can do it. So I was thinking when you said Skaara, that was what I was doing. It was. But that sounds way cooler. And I think that would be really good. I was thinking to my graduation trips type thing where, you know, you can say, hey, donate an hour of flight time or something.   [00:46:36.010] - Tamara Gruber That's pretty cool.   [00:46:37.010] - Scott Tharler Yeah, but it's also that factor, like you're saying with your other guest, where you get to see it building up. So you get to see, oh, cool, I have this much towards my trip and it's not just like maybe I'll get to go on the trip or maybe I won't. Right.   [00:46:51.280] - Tamara Gruber Right. You know, that's really neat. It makes you think of like when people get married and they register where you can kind of donate towards their honeymoon or something like that, it'd be another neat way to use it.   [00:47:01.720] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, exactly. Well, we've certainly have talked about a lot of things, but we have a question for you that we ask all of our guests. And I imagine that you're is still going to have some kind of tech angle to it since you talked about water bottles of sensors and all these kind of things. But do you have any favorite brand of clothing or, you know, what do you wear when you travel?   [00:47:23.800] - Scott Tharler I definitely do. And I think the first one is called Scotte Vest. And I am I am not the Scott and Scotte Vest. It's actually a friend of mine, Scott Jordan, that I've known for 20 years. And I love his stuff because it started off as just being literally like a fishing vest with a bunch of pockets in it. But it's grown to be shirts. I'm actually wearing a what they call their camping shirt now. It's it's like a nice short sleeved button down shirt.   [00:47:49.210] - Scott Tharler They have pants and shorts and dresses. They even have a mask nowadays. But all of their stuff is based on not just having a lot of pockets, but bringing your tech with you. And I know when I'm going on a business trip, if I have the blazer, they have like a sport jacket with a lot of stuff. It literally saves me like a carry ons worth of stuff that I can put in there. And so I have cords and batteries and a lot of the stuff that I talked about, I will have in specific pockets in that.   [00:48:19.390] - Scott Tharler So I'm a big fan of Scotty.   [00:48:21.280] - Tamara Gruber Best you can tell your friend Scott that I also own two of the long cardigans that they have for women with those big, deep pockets.   [00:48:29.650] - Scott Tharler Cool. Yeah. I mean, they they really have expanded. They have I guess they never got into shoes, but they have underwear. There's all sorts of stuff like if you want to for some reason, if you want to be walking around your hotel room and your underwear, but you also want your phone with you, then they've got you covered.   [00:48:46.370] - Tamara Gruber Yeah, I'm really picturing the pocket, you said.   [00:48:50.210] - Scott Tharler Yeah, there's there's all sorts of fun ways that could go. But but basically I, I always have something. I always have like one or two things with me that are like it's usually like a polo shirt and a t shirt or, you know, like a camping shirt and a t shirt that have these pockets built in. And it's just it's nice. And it's also I think people nowadays are more accepting of the fact that you're going to have tech with you, but you still don't want to look like you're schlepping around a bunch of stuff.   [00:49:18.610] - Scott Tharler So it's good at hiding the fact that you have definitely.   [00:49:22.150] - Kim Tate I agree. Yeah.   [00:49:23.380] - Scott Tharler The other one that I tend to bring with me, it's an Italian shoe company called ACBC and it stands for anything can be changed. And basically these are these you might have heard of these. They're like zip up shoes. And what I mean by that is that you bring along like one pair of soles and then you zip the tops off like and right here I'm actually holding them in my hand. And so if you're hiking during the day and you're walking around another part of the day and then at night you're going to be going to some nicer event or just going out to a nice dinner, then you could basically have just three sets of the tops that you zip on to the bottom and it takes up way less space.   [00:50:04.480] - Scott Tharler You know, like when I go to the annual Consumer Electronics Show, I could have five pairs of shoes, but it takes up not that much more than just one or two pairs of shoes in my bag.   [00:50:15.550] - Tamara Gruber Oh, that's really neat to look into, though, because I've not heard of it, I am familiar with, like the women's flip flop brand that has where you switch out like the top, you know, the thong part, but interesting.   [00:50:26.840] - Scott Tharler Oh, it's funny you mention that actually, because there's a new company that I just I know you guys are fans of Oofos, but there's one that I just found out that they're based out of Israel and it's called Link. And they have what they call flip shoes. And they're like flip flops, except for they don't have the top part, just like the bottom part only. And so the bottom part goes like around your foot and hugs your foot and then you don't your front two toes don't have to grip on to the thong for dear life that like your foot, you walk out of your shoes.   [00:50:59.630] - Scott Tharler So those look really cool. I haven't tried them yet, but they look really amazing.   [00:51:04.090] - Tamara Gruber Sounds like modernistic space agey.   [00:51:06.910] - Scott Tharler Yeah. Yeah, definitely.   [00:51:09.100] - Kim Tate Well, Scott, why don't you tell our listeners where they can find you online? Because I know a lot of this tech they're going to want to kind of see and you probably have a lot of reviews and pictures. So where can they find you?   [00:51:19.570] - Scott Tharler So the company is called the Family CTO. And of course, we have channels on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook. There's a podcast you can look up wherever you listen to podcast, you can look up the family CTO. But really, the website is the great launching pad. So if you just go to TheFamilyCTO.com, then there are links to all of that stuff.   [00:51:41.960] - Tamara Gruber Well, we will link to all of that in our show notes, as well as a lot of the products that you mentioned today. And so I know I'm going to be Googling a lot of things after this interview and looking things up. So I hope that our listeners found it very helpful. And I really appreciate you coming on and sharing all your knowledge. You have gone much deeper than either Kim and I think I've ever done into a dove into this, you know, family travel tech.   [00:52:06.350] - Scott Tharler Oh, it's my pleasure. I love talking about it. And thanks for having me on the show.   [00:52:14.030] - Tamara Gruber So we're back. And I just wanted to give a shout out to one of our listeners, Lee. He wrote in because he was listening to the episode that we did with Nate from Room Steals about tips for finding hotel deals. And I know that Nate was asking us recommendations for comfortable men shoes, and we didn't really have a lot to tell him. So anyway, Lee recommends Cole Hahn. He really loves those. And he said that their souls were actually made by Nike, which I did not realize.   [00:52:37.530] - Tamara Gruber So that explains why they're a little more comfortable. So guys that we've been ignoring, sorry about that. And we have some more recommendations for you. So thanks, Lee, for giving us an email and and giving us your tip.   [00:52:50.300] Yeah, that's a good tip. I actually, you know, my husband has a very Cole Hahn working shoes that, you know, are kind of l

Big data has exploded in the last decade, especially as applied in transportation. Starting from GPS in commercial vehicles and evolving to mobile phones, when this data is fused and synthesized it gives us real-time and historical data. From monitoring current road conditions, measuring performance, offering real time choices and making our roads safer, Big Data is helping to transform the industry. Join me when I talk to Ted Trepanier. He started his career with the Washington State DOT and has been with INRIX, a big data fusion company for more than a decade. He'll talk to us about big data, privacy, and encouraging innovation in our public agencies. Big Data Moves the Era Show notesINRIX https://inrix.com/About Ted Trepanier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-trepanier-14206516/Contact Ted ted@inrix.comYou can see traffic trends during the pandemic via Inrix here https://inrix.com/covid-19-transportation-trends WSDOT Driver tips for Thanksgiving Weekend (pre covid) https://wsdot.wa.gov/travel/times/holidays/thanksgiving/driver-tips

The latest Highways Voices podcast from Highways News has heard why transport modelling is key to making the most of the growth in traffic data that is being gathered to understand changes in patterns due to the Coronavirus crisis. Guest Darren Capes from the Department for Transport explains a data project he's overseen for the Transport Technology Forum which analyses data gathered from more than a hundred local authorities. “I think the snapshots are increasingly useful, we now have nearly a year's worth of data,” he tells the podcast. “So not only we're able to see what's happening and how lockdown is affecting trade and travel and daily life, but we're also able to make some interesting comparisons between pre-lockdown or between what's happened in the various ones. So we can start to see some interesting trends.” But it's the use of the data in the future where he gets increasingly animated. The former City of York transport manager suggests that the power of transport modelling will help give real insights into the new shape of traffic.  “We're seeing increasingly elaborate models, we're seeing increasingly powerful computing capabilities that allow us to run models, much more complex models,” he says. “I think cities should be starting to invest more in real time modelling and bringing the power of modelling, bringing their transport planning services together with the network management services, working with companies, traditional players and new entrants into the market that can model things in real time… I think now is the time to start to invest in the resource to get the modelling in place to get a new understanding of what how your city will work in the future.” This week's other guest is INRIX director Peter Lees who told his former colleague Paul Hutton about the INRIX Traffic Scorecard's value in understanding travel behaviour and how people's commutes will change long-term. “We've noticed the biggest drop being commutes in and out of towns and city centres,” he explains. “So, whereas generally travelling between centres on the motorway network and the larger road networks, and between smaller town and village centres hasn't been affected as much, we anticipate that that will rebound. And it has already started to to a degree more quickly than the regular commuting traffic where, you know, it's a bit of an unknown at the moment.” The podcast also features a new feature, “Adrian's Accolade”, where Highways News co-owner Adrian Tatum picks out an organisation or person due special praise for an industry-improving idea. Who wins this week, Tarmac, Balfour Beatty or the UK Roads Liaison Group? Find out by listening to this great addition to industry knowledge.

Bob Pishue, Transportation Analyst for INRIX shares a study that found Congestion Alone Cost San Francisco Over $1B in 2020  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the February edition of the ITE Talks Transportation podcast, Bryan Mistele, President and CEO of INRIX, talks about the impact of big data and data analytics on the transportation sector, including how his company utilizes real-time information to improve location-based insights for companies, cities, and road authorities around the world.

Bryan Mistele, President and CEO of INRIX, talks about the impact of big data and data analytics on the transportation sector, including how his company utilizes real-time information to improve location-based insights for companies, cities, and road authorities around the world.

Bryan Mistele, President and CEO of INRIX, talks about the impact of big data and data analytics on the transportation sector, including how his company utilizes real-time information to improve location-based insights for companies, cities, and road authorities around the world.

On today's episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about Trump’s comments on “price gouging”, murder hornets in the supply chain, and we’ll recap FreightWaves LIVE @HomePlus, special guest Bob Pishue,Transportation Analyst, Inrix.And, Good News Bad News regarding USPS, PPE, and more. Then we hear it from you in Comment Section Rodeo.Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsWatch

On today's episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about Trump’s comments on “price gouging”, murder hornets in the supply chain, and we’ll recap FreightWaves LIVE @HomePlus, special guest Bob Pishue,Transportation Analyst, Inrix.And, Good News Bad News regarding USPS, PPE, and more. Then we hear it from you in Comment Section Rodeo.Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsWatch

Visit agreatbigcity.com/support to learn how to support New York City local news and allow us to keep bringing you this podcast. If you are a New York-based business and would be interested in sponsoring our podcasts, visit agreatbigcity.com/advertising to learn more. We've been following the 14th Street busway since it was first proposed, and after being blocked twice by legal complaints, the street has been swept free of cars and the buses have been roaming free for two weeks now. In a press release from the MTA, preliminary data shows that ridership is up and buses are moving faster along 14th Street. A cross-town trip from Third Avenue to Eighth Avenue will now take 10.6 minutes, compared to a 15 minute trip from last year. While collecting data on the Select Bus Service plan implemented along the M14 route, the MTA saw a jump in ridership, with 15% more people choosing to take the prioritized buses, and in the short time the 14th Street busway has been operating, the ridership has jumped again, topping 31,000 daily riders on an average weekday. The busway, which limits traffic on 14th Street from 6am to 10pm, is planned to last 18 months, after which the DOT will assess the impact it has had on bus transit and traffic in the surrounding area. — Also this week, independent data analysis firm INRIX evaluated traffic data from the streets surrounding the 14th Street busway and found that there was no change in traffic speeds, and zero impact on traffic to the immediate north or south of 14th. The initial objections raise by local community groups claimed the busway would negatively impact nearby streets by pushing 14th Street's traffic into their neighborhoods, but the speed increase for 31,000 daily bus riders came at no expense to traffic, with differences in average speeds on surrounding streets never slowing more than a half a mile per hour. Here's how INRIX described the results: "The impact, or lack-there-of, may seem surprising but similar projects around the world have had similar results. The reallocation of space from vehicles to buses represents a far more efficient use of a limited public resource. Whereas one urban lane in congestion can move roughly 1,000 people an hour, a transit way can hit 25,000. As a result of this project, more people are getting where they need to be faster and more reliably." 53 years ago on October 17, 1966 — 12 members of the FDNY are killed when a burning building collapses, becoming the largest single loss of life in FDNY history until the 9/11 attacks 18 years ago on October 24, 2001 — A 14-story construction scaffolding and brick building façade collapses, killing five workers and seriously injuring 10 others in a courtyard at 215 Park Ave South near Union Square 54 years ago on October 18, 1965 — Closing day of the NY World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Park — Bowery Boys podcast 24 years ago on October 23, 1995 — A Greenpeace activist piloting a "gas-powered parachute" flies a banner outside the UN building 88 years ago on October 24, 1931 — The upper level of the George Washington Bridge is opened in a dedication ceremony, and opens to traffic the next day — United States Marine Band conducted by Leonard Slatkin playing William Schuman's 1950 composition "George Washington Bridge" 60 years ago on October 21, 1959 — The Guggenheim Museum Opens on the Upper East Side 136 years ago to October 22, 1883 — The original Metropolitan Opera House opens Beginning October 18th through the 20th, you'll have the once-a-year opportunity to explore the city like never before when Open House New York brings you exclusive tours of the city's architectural masterpieces that are sometimes hidden from public view or pass by unnoticed the rest of the year. Visit ohny.org for the full schedule of events, some of which require advance registration, but most of which are open all day to the public. The choices range from brand-new developments like 277 Mott Street to historic homes like the Alice Austen House, built on Staten Island in the 1690s. Going beyond architecture, you can also tour special projects like a solar rooftop in Harlem and an urban farm run by Brooklyn Grange in Long Island City. Each site sets its own visitation hours, so visit ohny.org to plan out your weekend! And, if you're planning on marching in the Village Halloween Parade, you better be finishing up your costume soon! Halloween is less than two weeks away, and the city's biggest party will be stepping off Thursday, October 31st at 7pm at Sixth Avenue and Canal. The parade is unique because it lets anyone participate! If you wear a costume centered around this years theme of "Wild Thing", you'll be allowed to march is a special section of the parade, but anyone who shows up in a costume will become part of the parade, and usually more than 50,000 people show up! Visit halloween-nyc.com for full info, and if you haven't decided on a costume yet, visit the AGBC costume ideas generator at agreatbigcity.com/halloween-costumes where you can get funny New York-themed costume ideas like dressing up as a vintage traffic jam now that the 14th Street busway is open or strike fear in the heart of anyone who has walked the city streets by becoming the Starbucks Bathroom of Doom! A Great Big City has been running a 24-hour newsfeed since 2010, but the AGBC News podcast is just getting started, and we need your support. 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Park of the day Crotona Park Parks Events 10th Annual Harvest Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park — Saturday, October 19, 2019 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Concert Calendar This is the AGBC Concert Calendar for the upcoming week: The Misfits with Rancid and The Damned are playing Madison Square Garden in Midtown West / Chelsea / Hudson Yards on Saturday, October 19th at 7pm. Mana is playing Barclays Center in Boerum Hill on Saturday, October 19th at 8pm. Steely Dan is playing Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side on Saturday, October 19th at 8pm. Benin International Musical is playing Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium in Hell's Kitchen / Midtown on Saturday, October 19th at 9pm. 85 South is playing Apollo Theater in Central Harlem on Sunday, October 20th at 5pm. 85 South is playing Apollo Theater in Central Harlem on Sunday, October 20th at 9pm. Tidal X with Alicia Keys is playing Barclays Center in Boerum Hill on Monday, October 21st at 8pm. Steely Dan is playing Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side on Monday, October 21st at 8pm. Charli XCX is playing Terminal 5 in Hell's Kitchen / Midtown on Monday, October 21st at 8pm. Charli XCX with Allie X is playing Terminal 5 in Hell's Kitchen / Midtown on Tuesday, October 22nd at 8pm. Steely Dan is playing Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side on Tuesday, October 22nd at 8pm. Dermot Kennedy with Talos is playing Kings Theatre in Ditmas Park / Flatbush on Tuesday, October 22nd at 8pm. Jessie Reyez is playing Brooklyn Steel in Greenpoint on Wednesday, October 23rd at 8pm. Fantasia with Robin Thicke is playing The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in Midtown West / Chelsea / Hudson Yards on Friday, October 25th at 7pm. Billy Joel is playing Madison Square Garden in Midtown West / Chelsea / Hudson Yards on Friday, October 25th at 8pm. Alec Benjamin is playing Terminal 5 in Hell's Kitchen / Midtown on Friday, October 25th at 8pm. Find more fun things to do at agreatbigcity.com/events. Today's fact about New York Here's something you may not have known about New York: In 2016, the MTA had 5,710 buses in its citywide fleet Weather The extreme highs and lows for this week in weather history: Record High: 88°F on October 22, 1979 Record Low: 30°F on October 19, 1940 Weather for the week ahead: Light rain on Sunday through Wednesday, with high temperatures rising to 67°F next Friday. AGBC Weather Weather.gov forecast Thanks for listening to A Great Big City. Follow along 24 hours a day on social media @agreatbigcity or email contact@agreatbigcity.com with any news, feedback, or topic suggestions. Subscribe to AGBC News wherever you listen to podcasts: iTunes, Google Play, or Pocket Casts, Spotify, Player FM, or listen to each episode on the podcast pages at agreatbigcity.com/podcast. 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In our final recording from AVS 2019 we were joined once again by Avery Ash, Head of Autonomous Mobility at INRIX, to talk about the expansion of INRIX's Road Rules Platform in July. Last year, INRIX debuted its AV Road Rules solution to help cities with cataloging, validating, and managing traffic rules for AVs on public roads. Their latest expansion provides functionalities that enable cities to incorporate loading zones and parking restrictions for TNCs (SUM Zones, anyone?), dockless bike/scooter zones, and other infrastructure like EV charging stations and fire hydrants. Learn more about AV Road Rules here: http://inrix.com/products/road-rules/ Keep up with Avery on Twitter: @AveryAAsh As always, you can also keep up with the Mobility Podcast on Twitter: @MobilityPodcast, @AVGregR, @SharedMobilityS, @SmarterTranspo. Learn more about AVS here: https://www.automatedvehiclessymposium.org/home Thanks again to Jane Lappin of Toyota Research Institute and the tremendous teams at AUVSI and TRB for having us at AVS this year!

The latest data from Inrix paints a dismal picture for folks traveling Wednesday (that's today!) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Drivers in Boston, New York City and San Francisco will see the largest delays with drive times nearly quadruple the norm, according to AAA and Inrix,whichaggregates and analyzes traffic data collected from vehicles and highway infrastructure. AAA is projecting 54.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 4.

Earlier this summer, INRIX released an exciting new platform that helps cities and AV manufacturers prepare for an autonomous future together. Avery Ash of INRIX recently joined SAFE Greg, BB&K Greg, and Pete to discuss how the AV Road Rules Platform can help to improve AV safety through an innovative approach to public-private collaboration. Follow Avery on Twitter: @ AveryAAsh To learn more about AV Road Rules: http://inrix.com/products/highly-automated-vehicles/ And, as always, you can keep up with us on Twitter: @ MobilityPodcast, @ AVGregR, @ SmarterTranspo, @ SharedMobilityS