26 Facts About Billy Riggs

William Warren Riggs or "Billy" Riggs is an author, city planner, entrepreneur and professor of Management at University of San Francisco and Director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative.

Billy Riggs is and an international expert in the areas of sustainable transport, technology, urban development and the future of cities and the author of the book, End of the Road: Reimagining the Street as the Heart of the City and Disruptive Transport: Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow.

Billy Riggs has worked as a professional planner, in venture capital for Just Business and a strategic consultant for various technology firms and startups.

Billy Riggs has experience as a successful recording artist and music producer, having worked on award-winning projects with Frances England, Gabriel Riggs and Carlos Villarreal.

Billy Riggs is of German-Jewish descent and his great-great-grandfather, a baker from Frankfort, Kentucky fled Germany in the late 1800s to avoid persecution and mandatory military service.

Billy Riggs is said to have some Native American heritage in addition to having relatives from Ireland, England and the former Austro-Hungarian empire.

Billy Riggs attended Graceland Christian High School in New Albany, Indiana and where he excelled academically and athletically, being honored as both Valedictorian and Athlete of the Year in his senior year.

Billy Riggs played in two bands during this period, the Hermits, and Just Visiting.

Billy Riggs attended Ball State University and studied history with a focus on art and architecture while participating in NCAA Division I Cross Country and Track and Field.

Billy Riggs worked as an intern at the Robert Doughty Consultancy in Lincolnshire, England during this period.

Billy Riggs became influenced by Rich Lyons, Dean of the Haas School of Business, on the topics of leadership, behavioral economics and human capital.

Billy Riggs wrote about those in a 2010 article talking about economic development, the information economy and the lack of jobs in his hometown of Louisville, KY.

Billy Riggs was a professor of City Planning at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, from 2013 to 2017.

Billy Riggs was awarded campus research grants in 2013 and 2014, and was selected as a Service Learning Faculty Fellow in 2014.

Billy Riggs served as a Commissioner for the City of San Luis Obispo's Planning Commission.

Billy Riggs is one of the co-creators of the SFLuv blockchain based community reinvestment platform and has written about how distributed autonomous organizations can be used to finance local infrastructure.

Billy Riggs has gained national recognition for his publications and is an active researcher.

Billy Riggs issued a noteworthy report on autonomous vehicles in 2020 entitled A Policy Framework for the Future of Automated Mobility: The Need for Local Government Policy, urban technology research that called cities to rethink their web strategies and was an author of the American Planning Association's national policy guidance on autonomous vehicles, Planning for Autonomous Mobility.

Dr Billy Riggs has been an advocate of reducing auto-dependency with innovative transportation, which he discussed in the 2021 KQED documentary, Moving San Francisco.

Billy Riggs recorded sang and performed on all of the songs on the album.

Billy Riggs received assistance from his brother Gabriel Riggs, who plays for the band Silver Spoons, from cousin Ryan Lott, who performs as the artist SonLux, and his wife's cousin Gaurav Chopra, an accomplished singer and santoor player based in Mumbai.

In 2005 Billy Riggs helped his cousin Frances England record the album Fascinating Creatures.

Billy Riggs played in two bands during his high school and college years, The Hermits and Just Visiting.

Since 2014 Billy Riggs has been working with Dr David Levine from UC Berkeley to write songs related to hand washing and hygiene.

Billy Riggs is an active runner and cyclist, and finished the 2005 Boston Marathon in 2:52 having come back from a 2001 Achilles tendon injury.

Billy Riggs is said to love science fiction and wine making.