Dallas Area Rapid Transit has joined a national effort to explore how autonomous buses could shuttle people around cities in the future.
It is one of about a dozen transportation agencies that are part of the Automated Bus Consortium, which will research driverless buses and run pilot projects to better understand how they could be rolled out nationwide.
— Dallasnews.com
The consortium, whose membership includes the transit agencies of Los Angeles County and Atlanta, and the Michigan Department of Transportation, was created by AECOM and aims to begin testing a fleet of 75 to 100 full-sized automated buses in major cities by 2021 or 2022.
Todd Plesko, Dallas Area Rapid Transit's vice president for service planning and scheduling told Dallas News, "My goal is to drive the cost down of operation of this service and increase the safety so we'll have fewer accidents. But it has to be done in a way that we bring the customers along so it doesn't frighten them, so they feel the technology benefits them."
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