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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said new license plates are needed to work with cashless tolling systems, red light cameras and the readers used by police. An estimated 3 million vehicles will be affected by the changes.
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In a letter to Lime, dated Aug. 16, city officials accused the company of repeatedly allowing scooters to operate in restricted areas above the speed limit. The company says it’s being treated unfairly.
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A small fleet of vans will offer a last-mile connection to Coaster commuter rail service, allowing stakeholders to study whether such a system is able to get more commuters out of their cars and onto shared rides.
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PlanetM, which is an arm of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, awarded these grants to six companies that are seeking to launch mobility pilot projects soon somewhere within the state.
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The company will start its operations in Naples on a closed course to test the sensors and computing abilities. The vehicles will then roll out to public roads in Miami and then along highways as far north as Orlando.
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A growing number of developers, architects and engineers have started building new garages in major U.S. cities with the capacity to be switched to other uses, if and when the need arises.
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A new study by researchers at North Carolina State University concluded that e-scooters have a larger environmental footprint than other forms of micro-mobility. They're greener than cars, but still have room to improve.
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The city began working on regulations months before 45-year-old Quienterry McGriff’s deadly electric scooter accident Aug. 6, but has still not passed any rules. The incident has rekindled regulation discussions.
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The new contactless payment system rolling out across the New York City bus and subway network launched at the end of May. Some 80 percent of riders "tap" into the system via a digital wallet.
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The license plate recognition system employed at Northern Arizona University parking lots will reduce the need for physical permits and kiosks, but it won’t be fully implemented until 2020, officials say.
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Geologists at the Arizona Geological Survey have created a statewide landslide database that documents more than 6,000 landslides, debris flows and rock slides. The tool will help better inform roadway projects.
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The Metropolitan Transit Authority will lead several year-long pilot projects to improve rider experience and system performance. The projects include crowd management and push alerts to ease congestion at stations.
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An 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in Georgia will be outfitted with a data management platform to support a connected vehicle pilot project and create a learning lab to educate jurisdictions about the technology.
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Documents released by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority show a network of 40-foot “mast arms” on light poles as one potential solution for the new tolling infrastructure within the congestion pricing zone.
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Despite securing a $1.8 million federal air-quality grant last year, the Ohio region’s transit authority is slowing down on plans to pilot autonomous people movers in the city later this year.
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The company’s CEO wants to push the feature out to customers, but auto executives worry that premature deployment of fully driverless technology would result in crashes, injuries and deaths and rile up regulators.
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The data officials thought would show one or two drivers going the wrong way turned out to 30 to 40 a week — a dangerous situation in the best of circumstances. But new tech may help buck this potentially deadly trend.
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Las Vegas plans to expand a traffic analysis project across downtown to gather data related to drivers heading the wrong direction on one-way streets, among other findings.
