WILLIAM RIGGSAcademic Leader · Urbanist · Researcher

Projects

Platforms, tools, and applied work with cities.

Research becomes useful when it becomes something a public agency can run. These are the platforms and programs where that happens.

Platform · AV&City · Founded & led

Autonomous Vehicles & the City

A research, policy, training, and consulting platform convening researchers, policymakers, industry, and communities around automated mobility and Physical AI in real urban settings.

  • Research studies and open evaluation methods
  • Executive and practitioner training
  • Policy frameworks for state and municipal governance
  • Deployment advisory for cities and operators

Open Tool · Signature framework

StreetOps

A computational framework for modeling street and curb operations — allocation, conflict, throughput, and access — so streets can be managed as public assets with measurable performance.

  • Curb allocation and conflict simulation
  • Throughput, access, and equity metrics
  • Reproducible notebooks and templates
  • Open validation datasets across partner cities
Street network analysis motif

Applied portfolio

Programs in the field

Assessment

Physical AI & Urban CCAM Readiness

A structured assessment method helping cities evaluate legal authority, data capacity, staffing, curb policy, and operational readiness for automated and embodied systems.

Civic · Founder

SFLuv

Creator and founder of SFLuv.org, a San Francisco nonprofit using local blockchain infrastructure to circulate spending within neighborhood businesses — reported by the organization at $500K+ in local community impact since 2024.

Applied

Civic Technology & Distributed Systems

Work with public agencies on digital transformation: moving technology pilots past demonstration into procurement, staffing, data governance, and sustained operations.

Applied

Curb Management Program

Applied work on pricing, allocation, and enforcement of curb space for delivery, transit, micromobility, and accessible loading in dense urban corridors.

Research to practice

Transit & AV Integration

Studying how services such as Waymo interact with public transit ridership and access, and what agencies should require from operators in exchange for street space.

International

International CCAM Collaboration

Joint work with European and international partners on cooperative, connected, and automated mobility — comparative governance, harmonized evaluation, and shared testbeds.