
The Bike Lane Newsletter
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Let’s talk about e-bikes
September 21, 2023
How great bike plans transform communities
September 21, 2023
More data on car-bike interactions needed in drive to protect VRUs
August 11, 2023
Ensuring safe journeys should top our ‘back-to-school’ lists
August 11, 2023
Automakers ‘need all the help they can get’ from safety tech startups
July 13, 2023
Your bike advocacy playbook
July 13, 2023
Revolution coming in ‘bicyclist safety via tech’
July 13, 2023
E-bike popularity, the infrastructure bill and ‘a lot of great wins so far’
June 08, 2023
Ultra-wideband: A feasible addition to D2V safety?
June 08, 2023
Let’s talk about safe autonomy
April 30, 2023
OSU using photorealistic driving simulations with AI to advance VRU-safety research
April 30, 2023
A lively chat about transportation
April 13, 2023
Good and bad news from Paris, San Francisco
April 13, 2023
The USDOT is forging a new path in VRU safety
April 13, 2023
Saving lives on the road today, tomorrow and for decades to come
March 02, 2023
We were wrong about sharrows
March 02, 2023
Making tech for first responders is rewarding, challenging
January 26, 2023
Cycling, industry and the future of connected mobility
January 26, 2023
PSS at ITS with Tome for Project Halo
January 26, 2023
More bikes, less parking = safer streets
December 01, 2022
The case for Guaranteed Basic Mobility
December 01, 2022
The real value of V2X: Open national data standards
October 27, 2022
The push for pre-competitive standards
October 27, 2022
The importance to transportation systems industry standards
October 01, 2022
Mobile Device Capabilities for Broadcasting and Receiving VRU Safety Messages Over Bluetooth Wireless Technology
October 01, 2022Newsletter Archive
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 1 • May 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 2 • June 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 3 • July 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 4 • August 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 5 • September 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 6 • October 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 7 • November 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 8 • December 2022
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 9 • February 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 10 • March 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 11 • April 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 12 • May 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 13 • June 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 14 • July 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 15 • August 2023
- The Bike Lane: Vol. 16 • September 2023
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About The Bike Lane
Welcome to The Bike Lane!
Protecting vulnerable road users (VRUs) is more critical than ever. Fortunately, some of the best in business are building bikes, scooters, and vehicles with connected technology in mind dedicated to this very purpose.
As proud founding members of the Society of Automotive Engineers Industry Technologies Consortia® (SAE ITC) VRU Safety Consortium™ (VRUSC), we created The Bike Lane newsletter as a sales-free zone dedicated to the common mission of making roads safer. The Bike Lane is a place for cross-industry voices to be shared and heard. It’s a forum to explore the tough questions around VRU safety, and how the bike, automotive, and tech industries are responding to those concerns. Our guest bloggers and podcasters are the professionals working actively on projects and programs related to VRU safety. They live and work where the rubber meets the road, literally and figuratively.
As for the Tome Safety Team, we believe that precompetitive software and standards are necessary for safer roads. We ride (and drive), and it’s personal. Our team brings collective experience to ongoing standardization efforts and technology development aimed at protecting VRUs.
With so many great companies working together to achieve this common goal of safer roads, our mission will be accomplished that much sooner. So much progress has already been made, and there’s still much work to do. As this happens, we’ll be reporting it back to you in The Bike Lane!
Stay safe, innovative, and ride on!
Angela Fessler
Director, Safety Team
Tome