Our vision
The future of mobility is a Transportation Operating System
A digital universe that brings together transportation assets, public policy expertise, and private sector innovation.
As the divisions between our physical and digital worlds continue to soften and blur, transportation is at a crossroads. Every element of modern mobility is digitizing, but separately, in its own way, and at its own pace—leading to never-before-seen difficulties in governance, a fractured experience for the general public, and a limited ability for private enterprise to help.
This is not a challenge that can be addressed only with software, nor will a single platform go far enough. What's needed is a sweeping leap forward: a Transportation Operating System (tOS). And Lacuna has a plan for making it real.
A big solution for big challenges
Reducing congestion
Eliminating traffic casualties
Ensuring environmental sustainability
Creating economic opportunities for all stakeholders
Providing equitable transportation services
Building a future-proof foundation for mobility
A tOS begins with digital infrastructure
Lacuna CEO Hugh Martin took the stage at CoMotion LA ‘22 to give a keynote that introduced the foundation of a tOS—an interoperable digital infrastructure: why it’s the next great leap forward in transportation, who needs to be involved, and the roadmap for how to build it.
From City Conductor to Transportation Operating System
today
Our digital policy management platform, City Conductor, is the foundational version of a Transportation Operating System (tOS). It is designed to integrate multiple operators for multiple modes to give a holistic picture of how the public right-of-way is used. City Conductor digitizes the existing operations of a transportation agency, automating basic tasks to help staff get more done in a day, as well as providing an unprecedented amount of high-quality data that cities can use to make policy decisions.
TOMORROW
As City Conductor matures, cities will gain the ability to digitally manage assets in their physical infrastructure, from bike corral parking to airport taxi lines, to subway stations and BRT lanes, to airspace for drones, to sidewalks shared by pedestrians and delivery robots—and whatever mobility technologies the future holds. Integrations happen one at a time until the entire right-of-way is represented, and managed, digitally.
THE FUTURE
With a fully realized tOS, orchestrating some of the ways in which many vehicle types navigate and share finite physical spaces can be done using artificial intelligence. The system can create and roll out policy solutions the moment it detects an issue, rather than waiting on humans to create assessments and strategies. Third-party innovators can create and launch new experiences for both city agencies and the general public. The tOS is transportation management not only for a new generation, but a new age.
Benefits for every stakeholder
Governments
Transportation departments can model policy strategies, mitigate problems before they occur, and easily scale governance as the public right-of-way grows in size and complexity—while fiercely protecting privacy and the environment.
For-Profit Innovators
Standardized interfaces, data models, and communications protocols drive the creation of competitive markets for new products and services, enabling new revenue streams, greater speed to market, and more efficient operations.
General Public
Seamless, multimodal transportation enables all residents to gain convenient and affordable access to better jobs, education opportunities, social connections, healthcare, and many other quality-of-life improvements
Closer than you think…
A utopian transportation ecosystem comes to visual life in the Black Panther movies. But for those of us in the real world, how close are we to achieving it? The answer may surprise you.