Meet Ontra Mobility's AI platform for transit planning: forecast demand, optimize fixed routes, integrate on-demand zones, and simulate “what-ifs” to balance cost, ridership, and convenience. Plan in weeks, not years.
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Thrilled to see my co-founder Anthony Trasatti on this deep-dive podcast about the future of transit. They covered why now is the moment for public transport, what great transit should optimize for, how it interacts with rideshare, and the role of AVs.
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@ontramobility.bsky.social is at #MOVEAmerica this week! 🚍
We’re demoing our AI platform for transit network design—it predicts demand, designs bus lines & stops, identifies on-demand zones, and simulates scenarios to balance cost, ridership, and accessibility.
Come say hi at table S87!
I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@ontramobility.bsky.social is at #APTATransform this week! 🚍
We’re demoing our AI platform for transit network design—it predicts demand, designs bus lines & stops, identifies on-demand zones, and simulates scenarios to balance cost, ridership, and accessibility.
Come say hi at Booth 507!
"In terms of its underlying causes, the current homelessness crisis is very nearly the opposite of the 20th century urban crime wave. It is a product of affluence, inequality, and political sclerosis." publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...
the technical reason for this is that the MTA doesn’t conform to the GTFS-RT standard which means that when looking in the app you get phantom buses (buses that are in the static schedule but don’t exist in real time)
Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody.
We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza.
Together we are standing up for those with no voice.
Please rank both 1 and 2!
So, yes, I want to see more redistribution, but I want to see that redistribution deliver what it promises. If Democrats are taxing people to build high-speed rail, that high-speed rail should exist; if they are taxing people to build electric vehicle chargers, those chargers should get built; if they are promising lower drug prices in Medicare, those lower prices should show up quickly. One way you build support for higher taxes is to point out the monstrous levels of wealth inequality; another is that you deliver things people want, and you deliver them quickly. Democrats are good at one of those strategies and bad at the other. But that is not an accident: To overhaul the government so it can deliver what it promises would require Democrats to confront not just their enemies but also their friends.
think this snippet of Ezra Klein's new essay is great. If people keep not getting the outcomes of their high taxes, they'll get upset
Had a great time chatting with the DigitalOcean team for their blog!
We talked a lot about what we're building at Ontra Mobility -- a platform to help cities and transit agencies plan smarter cities using our AI and Optimization algorithms.
www.digitalocean.com/blog/powered...
good piece on how Trump admin officials talk about policies online vs. in court
www.politico.com/interactives...
Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.
The actual "classist" statement is claiming, as Duffy did, middle class and low-income New Yorkers are “forced” onto the subways, while repeatedly referring to it as a "shithole" and showing your ignorance of urban policy by claiming driving must be the primary mode of transit. This guy is a moron.
first it was illegal immigrants losing their legal rights, then it was legal immigrants, soon it will be US citizens
Attention! Mayoral candidate Brad Lander will be answering questions from everyone in the NYC Micromobility Community TODAY at 11am, get your questions in now:
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Reliving the past 10 years of social history in academia as I fill out my first Collaborators and Other Affiliations form for NSF is a weird experience.
UConn has 3 of the top 7 home court win streaks in women’s basketball history.
The other 4 streaks in that top 7? UConn ended them.
We just made a major update to the @ontramobility.bsky.social website detailing our transit network planning and design capabilities. Check it out www.ontramobility.com
NIH reduced indirect costs rate to 15%. If NSF follows, it could be devastating to R1s
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list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
If you need gov data for your research, time to start backing it up www.theverge.com/news/604484/...
Speaking of confusion, what I am hearing is that the federal freeze is still in effect, but the OMB has merely rescinded the memo notifying people about the freeze.
Concerned about NSF funding
inspired by @humantransit.bsky.social's "de-congestion pricing" i think we should call removing mandatory parking minimums "parking deregulation". lots of people really love deregulation
