HELLO MILO
The City of Arlington has launched Milo, a free
autonomous shuttle service that operates on select
off-street trails in the Entertainment District before and
after major events at AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Park
in Arlington.
Fans attending the Dallas Cowboys pre-season home
game on August 26 were among the first to ride a Milo
shuttle as part of the City’s innovative transportation
pilot program. The City showcased the battery-
powered Milo shuttles and the service routes during
a media preview August 11 at Richard Greene Linear
Park.
The City is leasing two of these self-driving, electric
vehicles from EasyMile, a company based in France,
as part of a one-year pilot program to explore
autonomous transportation technology in a real-world
setting. While the City of Las Vegas ran a two-week
autonomous shuttle pilot program earlier this year,
Arlington is the first municipal government in the
United States to offer ongoing autonomous shuttle
service to the general public.
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“The experts are saying every day there is something
new being invented in transportation. It’s a great
opportunity for us to do these pilot projects, for us
to actually test them in our community and for our
citizens to be able to look at them and see if they work
here and what their opinion of it is,” Arlington Mayor
Jeff Williams said. “We want to see how this technology