FutureStructure Transportation
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The all-or-nothing package includes $482 million for smart corridors and $137 million for “local mobility” improvement, among other items.
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The new $500,000 software will allow the Augusta Public Transit system to keep better track of passengers and provide ridership data to continually improve the service.
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Department of Energy-funded programs are looking to improve on both range and charging time for electric vehicles.
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Data shows public transportation usage and trip data for rail and bus systems.
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The state is putting a lot of money and resources toward a small-town facility that will play host to futuristic cars.
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Carmakers have pushed for a national framework of laws, hoping to avoid dealing with a patchwork of regulations that might force self-driving cars to turn the wheel over to a human at some state borders.
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Self-driving truck company Otto showed off its automated semi-truck in Concord, Calif., on Aug. 4 while announcing the beginning of a testing program at GoMentum Station.
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After being announced as the winner of the DOT's first "Smart Cities" challenge, Columbus is excited to begin work on its next-gen transit system, but results will more likely come in years, not months.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said the agreement is a framework to guide discussions that could lead to specific ways for the two governments to work together.
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This is an innovation in energy that has implications going forward for every sector of modern industrial society. It isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say that Solar Impulse has ushered in a new era.
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In general, auto industry execs and regulators believe the evolution toward self-driving cars will improve safety and reduce traffic fatalities, but one of the trickiest problems is making it clear to the driver exactly what the car's technology can and cannot do.
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If consumers continue to accept these technologies, manufacturers will keep moving toward developing autonomous vehicles.
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Central Ohio Transit Authority recently began installing new wireless communication technology on its buses to replace outdated radios, and plans to add Wi-Fi capabilities for passengers by the end of 2017.
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The $17 million loan will be used for the design and construction of research facilities at the center.
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It’s an event that is likely to go down in history. The aim of this historic round-the-world-flight is to prove the power of clean technology to change the world.
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The automaker has begun testing a self-driving bus in the Netherlands.
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Although it’s on the horizon, a future where humans have no interaction with a car’s driving system is still far away.
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The goals are lofty, but fitting the new tech into the social and political landscape might be the bigger challenge.
