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City long-range plans starting to account for Uber, Lyft, and autonomous vehicles – National League of Cities

January 3, 2018

Cities are quickly bumping up their planning for autonomous vehicles and “transportation network companies” like Uber and Lyft, according to the latest numbers from the National League of Cities, in its report The Future of Equity in Cities.

Its last report, in 2016, found that only 3% of the largest cities had TNCs in their long-range plans and 6% accounted for AVs. But the latest numbers are 30% for TNCs and 38% for AVs, both still shockingly low numbers but also growing at a hopeful rate.

Other key findings include:

20 states have passed legislation related to autonomous vehicles.

Nearly 1 in 10 jobs in America is a transportation or infrastructure related job.

66% of cities have invested in some sort of smart city technology.

25% of cities that haven’t invested in smart city technology are currently exploring it.

There is also a lot of valuable information on jobs that will decline and and increase. Two occupations that are set to greatly increase are pretty directly related to the transportation of the future: respiratory therapists and bike mechanics.

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