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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If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them.
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Cobbcommute.org provides drivers with real-time information about congestion, travel speeds and road closures on the county’s arterial roads.
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We must make cities “smart” by using computer systems and the Internet to better balance demand for things like energy, transport and waste management with secure and reliable supply.
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Light rail advocates claim such transportation systems introduce a whole new type of development, one that appeals to both working millennials and retired snowbirds.
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The reason we have such congestion is not because we have low-tech vehicles that require excessive braking space -- it’s because we have failed at urban planning.
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Though the industry won’t be impacted “significantly” for at least a decade, the landscape will begin to shift dramatically after that.
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There's a lot of room for improvement in the world's transportation infrastructure, and using big data is one way to close the gap.
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Cost, cybersecurity and privacy protection are just some of the unsolved challenges that stand between the technologies' potential and reality.
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Electronic toll systems are credited with enhanced driver safety and traffic flow.
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This idea is not new; it has existed for decades. But while a vactrain sounds like a good concept, it’s relatively unfeasible to actually build. In this sense, Musk’s Hyperloop project is not a novel application of science but a novel application of engineering – using existing technology in new ways to get around the inherent challenges of a vactrain.
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Cities around the globe are faced with rapid population growth, increasing inequality, pollution and congestion. But Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, knows how it wants to improve and is quickly making the right changes to get there.
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The project, which others have estimated could cost more than $10 billion, is still on track to open to the public possibly as early as 2021.
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The director of Google’s self-driving cars says the cars have confronted a variety of scenes on surface streets around the company’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
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Mcity, billed as a linchpin to preserve southeast Michigan's dominance in automotive technology's future, is designed to accelerate development of inter-vehicle communication and driverless cars.
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Most states have laws to protect bikers from cars, but they're hard to enforce. One city is testing a new device that makes it easier.
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The deciding judge contended that Uber has not complied with state laws designed to ensure that drivers are doling out rides fairly to all passengers, regardless of where they live or who they are.
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Florida already has reciprocal deals with Georgia and North Carolina that allow the electronic devices to be accepted on their toll roads.
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The ultimate goal is a human/machine interface that is essentially more like driving a car than flying a small aircraft.
