Testimony, Consulting and Mediation

Mr. Einstein has served as an expert in more than 600 public transportation lawsuits, including more than 100 involving crossing, more than 150 involving boarding and alighting, and more than 100 involving wheelchair and/or passenger securement. Cases have involved personal injury, wrongful death, labor relations and class action lawsuits. (See Common Accident and Incident Scenarios). Mr. Einstein has particular expertise in incidents involving elderly and disabled individuals and children.

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Safety Compromises

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Modes and Service

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With more than 40 years experience in public transportation, Ned Einstein has served as an expert witness in more than 650 lawsuits, for both plaintiffs and defendants, including:

150+

cases involving boarding or alighting accidents

100+

cases involving vehicle & pedestrian accidents (mostly during crossings)

100+

cases involving wheelchair and/or passenger securement

50+

cases involving walker or cane users

300+

nationally-published books, papers and featured trade magazine articles

DIVERSE BACKGROUND AND CAREER EXPERIENCE

Not only an Expert Witness, but a passenger transportation safety consultant.

Mr. Einstein designed fixed route, demand-responsive and hybrid transportation systems, conducted planning studies, prepared transportation plans, designed routes, schedules and maps, and for 10 years, directed the operations of his own 70-vehicle transportation system for disabled passengers.

PERSPECTIVE ON TRANSPORTATION & CORONAVIRUS

Public transportation lies at the center of both the problems with, and solutions to, the coronavirus. President Ned Einstein of NYC-based Transportation Alternatives has written regularly on this subject.

Getting Students Back to School During COVID-19

A model that state educational and transportation officials can tweak into formal, detailed plan and provide to their governors

Part 1: Motorcoarch Survival in the Age of Covid-19: Roles and Responsibilities

Important roles motorcoaches should have played when the outbreak began

Part 3: Transit Survival in the Age of Covid-19

Changes that must occur for the transit industry to survive and possibly become a role model for contributing to our recovery.

Part 4: Motorcoarch Survival in the Age of Covid-19:

Drivers, Health and Coronavirus After a rude wakeup call, we have begun protecting our bus and coach drivers aggressively. And effectively.

AN EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE

Thought leadership on current trends within the transportation industry

Crime Does Not Always Pay

This is even true in public transportation, where it usually does. Just look at the non-emergency me...

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Making Public Transportation Work, Part 7 –The Cost of Failure

The previous six installments of this series identified and explored, in considerable detail, the el...

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Making Public Transportation Work, Part 6: High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes

High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes are the sixth element of public transportation services to be cov...

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Making Public Transportation Work, Part 5: Ridesharing

This article is the fifth component of this series describing critical “missing pieces” of an operab...

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Introduction and Overview

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Expert Witness Services

Common Accident Scenarios

Our Approach to Lawsuits

Contact Mr. Einstein, Transportation Expert

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