San Francisco is one of the most transportation rich cities in the
country.
We've got some immense issues and challenges. We've got the great land use,
the great street design, and people are coming and using transit but it's overwhelmed.
At the same time, the people that are driving are finding it really hard to get
around the city. Too many people are getting hit by cars and they're getting killed. We also have
a population of our city that can't afford to get around, where they are physically
not able to get around. Everybody can benefit from increased mobility. Reduced
travel times and reduced costs. That time and travel is time that people aren't
spending with their families or their not spending at their jobs. In
2000, I had a stroke.
This is what put me in the wheelchair. This is my car, this is my baby. I'm not a sit at home type of
person, I'm out most of the time
out doing something. No one solution is going to help make our city
smarter. We can't focus on one corridor or one street. Our smart city
proposal is really one that we think is holistic.
We're focusing on smaller parts across the region, the city and particular
neighborhoods from an integrated mobility app that can allow you to route, book
and pay. To collision avoidance technology on our largest vehicles.
Free Wi-Fi in the neighborhoods. Improving bike sharing, car sharing and
electric vehicle charging access in the neighborhoods. Having a street with five
lanes of traffic is actually not helpful to anybody. We're trying to bring balance to our
streets for people who are walking, cycling, and taking transit and sharing.
So if we can figure out a way to get people around in higher occupant
vehicles ,you can fill
gaps in the transportation network. You can provide services where we're not
currently providing services. And we reduce the need for parking which means we
can start convincing about parking structures into affordable housing. And
then we're gonna create a community challenge and we're going to invite the
neighborhoods to say, "I'm ready for this."
Neighbors will be able to reconnect with the neighborhood, shop locally and really
help reinvest their local dollars in their neighborhood. My husband and I both decided to
get rid of our cars. We got this big old cargo bike with a little bit of this
electric motor to help us get up the hills.
We've done a real good job of just taking advantage of what our neighborhood and
our city has to offer and how we can just get everywhere
we want without a car and do it that way. This city is only 49 square miles. And every
time a car goes down you're contaminating
49 square miles so you need to get people out of cars and in some clean
vehicles. From the day the cable car was invented right here in San Francisco to
today when we are hosting 12 companies that are testing autonomous vehicles.
We are a leader in transportation technology. And with some of the nation's
top data analytics programs and researchers on our campus, University of
California - Berkeley can lend immense support in helping San Francisco meet the
Smart City Challenge. We have a society in our city baked in of early adopters who llove
to learn
test and play new ideas. That's our culture. We have the ecosystem of all the
providers, the strongest support network from the universities, and we have the
ability with all that different topographical neighborhoods in our city.
To really test this in different applications, you should know the scale of your
neighborhoods across the whole city to
the rest of the cities around the country ,and then ultimately around the world