Issue / Local governance
Pivoting from Mobility on Demand to Food Delivery: Lessons from the MOD Pilot in Los Angeles
May 27, 2022 | Paul LewisThe COVID-19 pandemic prompted transit agencies across the country to quickly modify service, protect the health of passengers and...
Metro’s Recurring Problems Raise Questions About Oversight, Management
May 21, 2022 | Robert PuentesWith most transportation systems, it is clear who is responsible, said Robert Puentes, president of the Eno Center for Transportation,...
Webinar: What is next for MOD: Lessons from Los Angeles’ MOD Pilot During COVID
May 26, 2022 | Jonathan HammondIn January 2019, LA Metro launched a first-mile, last-mile mobility on demand (MOD) pilot with Via, offering shared rides to and from...
Tackling Governance in Transit Megaprojects – Key Lessons from Eno’s Examination of Transit Governance in Austin
Apr 22, 2022 | Paul Lewis and Romic AevazOver two dozen new rail transit projects are set to open for service across the United States by 2030. There will likely be even more...
Austin’s Project Connect: Independent Review of Governance and Leadership
Apr 22, 2022 | Paul Lewis, Romic Aevaz and Robert PuentesWith the passage of Proposition A in 2020, Austin voters gave their approval to an ambitious, far-reaching vision for the region's...
Guest Op-Ed: What Streets Are Today, What Streets Should Be Tomorrow
Apr 08, 2022 | Seth LaJeunesseThe COVID pandemic upended our way of life. As of early April 2022, nearly a million people in the US have died from the disease, and...
Guest Op-Ed: Micromobility Toward the Future – An Opportunity Arose in the Pandemic
Apr 01, 2022 | Mengying JuIf we attempt to depict the future of transportation, it might be low carbon, unmanned, shared, or electrified. On the other hand, it...
Guest Op-Ed: America Needs to Invest in Universal Road User Education
Mar 29, 2022 | Jonathan French, P. E.As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and over 800,000 lives lost in the U.S., the number of road user deaths could...
Guest Op-Ed: Preparing Transit for the Future of Work
Mar 18, 2022 | Nick CarosThe scale and speed of the transformation in the nature of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. Remote work, which...
Webinar: Reforming Governance to Transform Cities
May 05, 2022 | Madeline GormanCities own the streets that transit agencies need for their bus lanes. Regions often lack a coordinated entity to oversee...
Guest Op-Ed: The Rise of Delivery as a Service
Mar 11, 2022 | Marcella KaplanEveryday life entirely changed for most when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic on March 11, 2020....
Guest Op-Ed: Alternative Traffic Enforcement to Re-Center Road Safety
Mar 04, 2022 | Ethan EbingerTransportation has become the most policed aspect of daily life in the United States. The most frequent interactions between police and...