GoMentum Station has partnered with the ride-hailing company, Lyft. Lyft believes in self-driving cars making the future of ground transportation safer. They have partnered with several companies working on self-driving cars such as Nutonomy, Ford, General Motors, Drive.ai and Waymo. Lyft has also opened a hardware and software engineering facility in Silicon Valley dedicated to autonomous vehicle development, called Level 5. Read on
Self-driving vehicles took another big step forward in California with the first testing of driverless shuttles on public streets today. Two EasyMile shuttles moving up to 15 miles per hour were tested at the Bishop Ranch business park in San Ramon where local officials touted the electric shuttles as a way to someday connect people more efficiently to nearby transit. EasyMile EZ10 shuttles hold up to 12 people, testing of them began at GoMentum Station in 2016. Read more
Contra Costa Transportation Authority made history today when a little red shuttle pulled onto a public road with nobody at the wheel. The fully autonomous EasyMile shuttle is the first driverless shuttle in California to be granted permission to drive on public streets. Contra Costa's goal is nearly a hundred of the little autonomous busses by 2020. See the full story
CONCORD, Calif. - Excitement is building about fully autonomous vehicles - especially in the Bay Area, where GoMentum Station is going full throttle to help change the way people, goods and services will eventually travel about the world. Read the full story in the Bay Area Monitor.
Concord selects autonomous vehicle to be parade’s grand marshal.
CONCORD, Calif. (KGO)- It’s an American tradition for parades to have a grand marshal, and that grand marshal is usually a person. But Tuesday’s Fourth of July parade in Concord was a bit unusual.
The grand marshal this year was a little red bus with no steering wheel and no driver’s seat- an autonomous vehicle.
Read the full story at ABC News.
Artificial intelligence holds the promise of rapidly altering existing industries, and transportation is not immune.
CONCORD, Calif. — Machines today can do incredible things. Computer algorithms are advanced enough to best world champions in chess or the multi-week champion on Jeopardy! If you ask that same chess-playing computer to a game of checkers, however, complications arise.
While said computer may excel at one task, using that same computing power to solve an equally or even less complex problem is the largest hurdle for artificial intelligence (AI) developers. During a discussion on how AI will effect mobility at GoMentum Station's Redefining Mobility Summit on March 30, a series of speakers took on this question head on.
Read the full story at Government Technology.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced ten automated vehicle proving ground test sites that will form a Community of Practice with the goal of advancing autonomous and connected vehicle technology.
Randy Iwasaki, executive director of the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority, which operates GoMentum Station in Concord, Calif., said he was “honored to be selected as one of the ten locations in the United States. This is the only technology on the planet that can help reduce traffic fatalities to zero.”
Read the full story at Government Technology.
The June 2016 eNewsletter introduces the CCTA Board's tranformative 30-year Transportation Expenditure Plan, announces a closure of I-80 on June 18-19, gives an update on GoMentum Station and features highlights of the Redefining Mobility Summit and Bike to Work Day. Read our newsletter.
The Highway 4 Corridor Project, led by California’s CCTA, will expand and modernize Highway 4 to accommodate increased traffic volumes and future construction of commuter rail in the fast-growing eastern portions of Contra Costa County, near San Francisco. Read the article