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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Improving traffic management was a major theme at the ITS World Congress this week. We interviewed Sameer Joshi of Siemens to hear the latest in Intelligent Transportation Systems and related technology.
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UI officials are asking for $3 million to establish a non-profit institute focused on "autonomous intelligent machines and systems."
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The potential benefits are vast for those cities which make the best use of the tools at their disposal: the costs for those which do not are equally significant.
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Why do we keep investing the minimum amount while other countries pass us by in quality and breadth of transportation networks?
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With Central Japan Railway’s efforts to sell high-speed trains on the U.S. coasts going nowhere, Texas has emerged as the company’s best hope for introducing its wildly successful technology to the American market.
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The auto industry is seeing a convergence of factors that make fuel cell cars more viable, according to the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.
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The effort is part of the Federal Transit Administration's National Fuel Cell Bus Program, an initiative that has awarded over $90 million in grants to projects that advance the manufacture of fuel cell technology in U.S. transit buses.
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Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are in the early stages of a novel idea to move stop and yield signs, among other posted traffic, from the side of the road into the car itself.
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FutureStructure interviews Michael Wilson, Managing Director of Public Transportation for North America at Accenture, about why transit agencies should be investing in transportation asset management.
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When it's done in 2015, the I-80 Smart Corridor project will feature 133 large high-tech signs and will gather information from networks of sensors and cameras on the freeway, major side streets and ramps.
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Britain has announced a plan to fast-track driverless cars, meaning self-driving cars could hit public roads by early 2015.
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A state appellate court has cleared the way for the sale of bonds for California's controversial high-speed rail project, overturning a lower-court ruling.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's plan for north-south rapid-bus corridors, linking downtowns, businesses and research centers, is viable but will cost $78 million to implement along three recommended routes, a new county study says.
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It's called predictive analytic software. And it could be the start of a whole new generation of traffic safety, a new tool as revolutionary as seat belts or radar.
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Gov. Rick Scott goes along for "a great ride" in an autonomous Audi A7.
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The Sun Link is a good example of modern streetcar services that are bringing a new transportation option to communities across the country – or in some cases, bringing back an old one.
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It’s not just other cars vehicles will be in constant contact with, they’ll be keeping close watch on their drivers too.
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Some see railroads as dated technology. Others see railroads as a platforms for entirely new means of transit.
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