The deployment in Chandler, launching this fall, will allow users of the City’s Chandler Flex microtransit service to receive rides in Waymo vehicles. Photo: ViaVia and Waymo announced a strategic partnership to allow government agencies to leverage Via’s software to introduce Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service directly into their public transit networks. Chandler, Arizona, will be the first city to benefit from this framework, integrating Waymo’s service into the city’s Chandler Flex microtransit service. The deployment in Chandler, launching this fall, will allow users of the City’s Chandler Flex microtransit service to receive rides in Waymo vehicles. The partnership between Waymo and Via enables other cities to introduce this same model to their transit networks easily, the companies reported.