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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A deadlocked vote at Tuesday's Ames, Iowa, City Council meeting will now shelve a pilot program that would have developed a one-year dockless, pay-to-use e-scooter program throughout that community.
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Upgrades to the company’s electric scooters will make the devices more responsive to travel restrictions set by local rules. Since coming to cities nationwide, governments have struggled to regulate them.
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Less than a year after its last cash infusion from investors, Ride Report is once again pulling in money. And in the intervening months, the company's customer count appears to have grown quickly.
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The Commuters Trust program, which blends transit, ride-hailing and carpooling into a suite of transportation options for commuters, is expanding after early successes building partnerships with local employers.
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Technological changes in coming years will include more widespread adoption of electric and self-driving vehicles and more use of shared cars, bicycles and e-scooters, according to a new report.
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A new service geared toward closing first-mile-last-mile gaps for commuters was announced in Sacramento and Davis, Calif., last week. Officials say their vehicles will also collect data for autonomous advancements.
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Currently, the city employs 10 full-time workers and three part-time staffers for the transit system, but if a contract is approved, Via would offer a turnkey operation with responsibility for staffing and vehicles.
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Self-driving truck developer TuSimple is expanding its partnership with shipping giant UPS in order to run more routes while developing its technology further at its main testing facility in Tucson, Ariz.
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Driverless vehicles rely heavily on sensors to navigate the world. They're vulnerable to attack if bad actors trick them into 'seeing' things that aren't there, potentially leading to deadly crashes.
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The Veloz electric vehicle forum titled 'Electric Transportation 2030: Policy, Power and Plugs' brought together attendees from private, public and nonprofit sectors.
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California has ambitious plans to have 5 million vehicles on the roads by 2030. But in 2019, the momentum slowed slightly with sales dipping just more than 12 percent. Experts aren’t concerned.
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When Los Angeles set up a new system for collecting data from — and communicating rules to — emerging mobility companies, Uber refused to comply and lost its permit. Now, it's backing a group criticizing the data system.
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California is already a world leader in the embryonic electric vehicle industry but needs more government help to flourish, according to a new report from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation.
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Rochester, Minn., is undertaking a one-year pilot project with the shuttles, which will circle an 18-square-block section of the downtown there and be implemented by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
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Various transit agencies in the New York City area will partner with nine startups on the focus areas of accessibility, revenue generation and curb space management as part of the Transit Tech Lab.
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Frederick County, Md., local government officials had the opportunity to show off their electric bus fleet and solar array at the county landfill to Congressmen from both coasts late last week.
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City leaders say Buffalo will be able to chart a more successful course in planning for the future of transportation – one with fewer cars, less parking and a various modes of transportation.
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Electric scooters are banned along the San Diego boardwalk from Mission Bay to La Jolla, with police officers there enforcing the restrictions by issuing warnings for the first 30 days and citations thereafter.
