$25K · 2025–26
Waymo Transit Incentive Pilot evaluation
Evaluation of an incentive pilot linking automated ride-hail trips with public transit use.
Research & Work
Funded research, applied platforms, and work with cities.
Research organized around decisions cities are actually facing — automation, curbs, transit, climate investment, and street performance.
Current & recent projects
Representative funded research
Selected projects from the current CV. Amounts and sponsors are listed where they are not confidential.
Waymo · $70K · 2026–27
Teens and VMT
How automated ride-hail changes travel patterns and vehicle miles traveled for teen riders.
2026–27
Economic development potential of automated vehicles
Assessment of the local economic development effects of automated vehicle deployment. Client and amount confidential.
City of Oakland / CA Strategic Growth Council · $1.02M · 2021–26
Transformative Climate Communities
Multi-year evaluation and technical support for community-led climate investment in Oakland.
Waymo · $80K · 2024–25
Curb Data Specification & AV curb allocation
Curb allocation and data specification work for automated vehicle pick-up and drop-off.
Cruise · $45K · 2022–23
Research Rider Program
Rider perceptions of safety, comfort, and operations in automated vehicle service.
Mineta Transportation Institute
Accessibility policy for autonomous vehicles
Policy research on how automated services can serve riders with disabilities.
Themes
Five lines of inquiry
The through-lines connecting funded projects, peer-reviewed publication, and public writing.
Theme R1
Automated mobility & Physical AI
What does it take for automated systems to operate well in real cities?
Rider perceptions of safety and comfort, transit integration, curb allocation, accessibility policy, and the governance of automated services in shared public space.
Theme R2
Computational urbanism & civic technology
What can we learn when cities become measurable at street resolution?
StreetOps and related computational methods for modeling street and curb operations, alongside digital transformation work with public agencies.
Theme R3
Street design & urban operations
How should the street perform as shared civic infrastructure?
One-way to two-way street conversion, street livability, and curb management as an operational discipline rather than a static right-of-way question.
Theme R4
Behavioral economics of sustainable travel
What actually changes how people move?
Social nudges, incentives, and behavioral interventions in travel and energy choices, tested in field and pilot settings.
Theme R5
Climate, equity & community investment
Who benefits when cities invest in climate resilience?
Transformative Climate Communities work with the City of Oakland and the California Strategic Growth Council, and contributions on net-zero and resilient infrastructure.
Methods & tools
StreetOps
The current computational framework used across this work: modeling how streets and curbs operate — allocation, conflict, throughput, and access — so street performance can be measured rather than asserted.
Curb allocation modeling
Applied in Curb Data Specification work on automated vehicle pick-up and drop-off
Rider experience analysis
Safety, comfort, and operations data from AV rider research programs
Transit interaction studies
How automated ride-hail affects transit use, access, and VMT
Street configuration analysis
One-way and two-way street conversion and livability outcomes
Applied work & platforms
Where the research gets used
Platforms and programs that turn research into something a public agency, operator, or investor can actually run.
Platform · AV&City
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.
Open Tool
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.
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.