Connor Riley

YouTube video by Ontra Mobility Ontra Mobility - The AI Platform for Transit Planning

Meet Ontra Mobility's AI platform for transit planning: forecast demand, optimize fixed routes, integrate on-demand zones, and simulate “what-ifs” to balance cost, ridership, and convenience. Plan in weeks, not years.

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YouTube video by Disruption Drive with Hari Sripathi How Ontra is building the future of Demand Responsive Transit for Megacities?

Thrilled to see my co-founder Anthony Trasatti on this deep-dive podcast about the future of transit. They covered why now is the moment for public transport, what great transit should optimize for, how it interacts with rideshare, and the role of AVs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vd...

@ontramobility.bsky.social is at #MOVEAmerica this week! 🚍

We’re demoing our AI platform for transit network design—it predicts demand, designs bus lines & stops, identifies on-demand zones, and simulates scenarios to balance cost, ridership, and accessibility.

Come say hi at table S87!

Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@ontramobility.bsky.social is at #APTATransform this week! 🚍

We’re demoing our AI platform for transit network design—it predicts demand, designs bus lines & stops, identifies on-demand zones, and simulates scenarios to balance cost, ridership, and accessibility.

Come say hi at Booth 507!

Notes On a Nonexistent Crime Wave If American cities aren't war zones, they must be turned into war zones

"In terms of its underlying causes, the current homelessness crisis is very nearly the opposite of the 20th century urban crime wave. It is a product of affluence, inequality, and political sclerosis." publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

the technical reason for this is that the MTA doesn’t conform to the GTFS-RT standard which means that when looking in the app you get phantom buses (buses that are in the static schedule but don’t exist in real time)

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody.

We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza.

Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

Please rank both 1 and 2!

So, yes, I want to see more redistribution, but I want to see that redistribution deliver what it promises. If Democrats are taxing people to build high-speed rail, that high-speed rail should exist; if they are taxing people to build electric vehicle chargers, those chargers should get built; if they are promising lower drug prices in Medicare, those lower prices should show up quickly. One way you build support for higher taxes is to point out the monstrous levels of wealth inequality; another is that you deliver things people want, and you deliver them quickly. Democrats are good at one of those strategies and bad at the other. But that is not an accident: To overhaul the government so it can deliver what it promises would require Democrats to confront not just their enemies but also their friends.

think this snippet of Ezra Klein's new essay is great. If people keep not getting the outcomes of their high taxes, they'll get upset

Had a great time chatting with the DigitalOcean team for their blog!

We talked a lot about what we're building at Ontra Mobility -- a platform to help cities and transit agencies plan smarter cities using our AI and Optimization algorithms.

www.digitalocean.com/blog/powered...

good piece on how Trump admin officials talk about policies online vs. in court

www.politico.com/interactives...

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

The actual "classist" statement is claiming, as Duffy did, middle class and low-income New Yorkers are “forced” onto the subways, while repeatedly referring to it as a "shithole" and showing your ignorance of urban policy by claiming driving must be the primary mode of transit. This guy is a moron.

first it was illegal immigrants losing their legal rights, then it was legal immigrants, soon it will be US citizens

From the MicromobilityNYC community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the MicromobilityNYC community

Attention! Mayoral candidate Brad Lander will be answering questions from everyone in the NYC Micromobility Community TODAY at 11am, get your questions in now:

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Reliving the past 10 years of social history in academia as I fill out my first Collaborators and Other Affiliations form for NSF is a weird experience.

From the Professors community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the Professors community

Yikes www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

UConn has 3 of the top 7 home court win streaks in women’s basketball history.

The other 4 streaks in that top 7? UConn ended them.

Ontra Mobility Ontra Mobility - Transit For All

We just made a major update to the @ontramobility.bsky.social website detailing our transit network planning and design capabilities. Check it out www.ontramobility.com

NIH reduced indirect costs rate to 15%. If NSF follows, it could be devastating to R1s

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

If you need gov data for your research, time to start backing it up www.theverge.com/news/604484/...

Speaking of confusion, what I am hearing is that the federal freeze is still in effect, but the OMB has merely rescinded the memo notifying people about the freeze.

From the Professors community on Reddit: NSF Implementation of Trump admin Executive Orders Explore this post and more from the Professors community

If you didn’t get it, here is a copy of the email sent by NSF www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

Concerned about NSF funding

Deregulating Parking Uncovering JAPA: Learn how Champaign, Illinois, has combated onsite parking constraints by removing minimum parking requirements and improving the utilization of existing parking.

i may be late to this party www.planning.org/blog/9294686...

inspired by @humantransit.bsky.social's "de-congestion pricing" i think we should call removing mandatory parking minimums "parking deregulation". lots of people really love deregulation