3/28/2025· Transportation
The Misuse And Underuse Of Video Cameras
By: Ned Einstein
This article will address a theme that continues to pop up more and more in the lawsuits on which I work, as an expert witness, in various modes of public transportation: The use of video cameras as part of the industry’s monitoring efforts - the industry’s weakest link.
12/20/2023· Transportation
Danger Signs Ahead For U.S. Transit And Motorcoach Sectors, Part 1
By: Ned Einstein
America’s worst transportation problems may be recent. But they had their roots in a century of serious mistakes, even if, in fairness, many were not foreseeable nearly that long ago. Compared to many countries with a fraction of our resources, America made no efforts to decrease traffic levels by creating new major cities – like Brasilia and Tel Aviv (the latter of which had recently been its nation’s capital; the former still is).
10/25/2023· Transportation
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Service and Wheelchair Tipovers
By: Ned Einstein
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that every wheelchair securement position have some type of floor hardware – and even specifies its longitudinal and lateral spacing (49 CFR 38.23(d)(2). It also requires that every position contain three sets of tie-downs – although the clear, irrefutable industry standard is four.
5/11/2023· Transportation
Leaving Money on the Table, Part 1: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Service And Brokers
By: Ned Einstein
This installment explains how the two major forms of wheelchair transportation were fragmented by oversight failures in the Johnson Administration. Not only did this fragmentation evolve into extraordinary levels of corruption, but the consolidation of these two types of programs was rarely, if ever, effected.
3/21/2022· Transportation
The Post-COVID Era Motorcoach Industry
By: Ned Einstein
In this article, I am merely explaining the consequences of cabinet and administrator choices being made in the passenger and freight transportation fields, and commenting on the overall challenges of running the labyrinth of variation and complexity which USDOT is.
12/1/2021· Transportation
Transportation Network Companies - Even Worse Than Expected
By: Ned Einstein
The “Bad Regulations” series noted above identified a litany of institutional and industry-wide failures to stop the incursion of TNC’s from gutting the taxicab industry. Alongside the successful decimation of that sector, and the near-collapse of tour and charter service caused by the COVID-19 (and our failures to mitigate it), few noticed that fixed route transit ridership had declined by roughly 10 percent during the two years preceding COVID-19.
9/17/2021· Transportation
Defending Public Transportation Contractors: The Whistleblower's Song (Part 3)
By: Ned Einstein
As we struggle to bounce back, limited stimulus funds notwithstanding, it would help to know what we are in for. Reducing bloated public sector transportation costs are likely a part of that future. In response, private contracting should explode. But this does not mean the operating environment will be rosy, or even coherent.
7/18/2021· Transportation
Defending Public Transportation Contractors: The History Of Contracting And Brokerage
By: Ned Einstein
In many cases, the negligence of lead agencies and brokers are the principal proximate causes of an incident; in some cases, it comprises the sole proximate causes. For this reason, understanding the dynamics among these three entities – private operating companies, lead agencies and brokers - is the key to
4/12/2021· Transportation
Defending Public Transportation Contractors, Part 1: Lead Agencies and Brokers
By: Ned Einstein
For decades, motorcoach providers have provided commuter-express service, under contract, to transit agencies (and, occasionally, to municipalities, counties or regions which do not have formal transit agencies). Particularly in the past 20 years, this role has expanded:
2/13/2021· Transportation
COVID-19, Shenanigans and Liability Part 2: Making Money by Compromising Health
By: Ned Einstein
Amtrak, the heavily-subsidized enemy of the motorcoach industry, is now outdoing its airline industry colleagues. But as a quasi-government monopoly, the taxpayers will effectively cover the damages if problems develop. That Amtrak may not even belong in most parts of the country is …
by Patrick M. Kennedy, John Kennedy
by Joel R. Coats, et al. (editors)
by Sidney P. Blum
