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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Before the state goes full sci-fi, the language in Connecticut’s dated motor vehicle statutes must be modernized to make clear who or what is considered an operator.
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Pennsylvania has received a grant to update digital technology in public buses, and Mercer County's shuttles will benefit.
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After requests to postpone the Caltrain high-speed rail project were heard, the project has now been pushed for consideration in the 2018 budget.
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A new mapping tool for New Yorkers has been released by Sidewalk Labs to understand how the impending closure of the L line, called "L-mageddon," will affect travel around the city.
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Autonomous cars need to learn how to drive just like people do: with real-world practice on public roads. It's key to safety, and to public confidence in the new technologies.
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A $5.1 million, 5-year contract with SENSYS, will help operate 16 traffic safety cameras around the city.
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A compromise currently being crafted by the city council would likely bring more scooters to town.
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“We don’t want to mandate the technology because we don’t want to hinder innovation,” Federal Highway Administration acting administrator Brandye Hendrickson says.
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Despite Minneapolis already being a dockless-bike friendly town, some worry about excessive theft and abandonment with more fleets on the streets.
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In a nearly $250 million deal, the ride-hailing company acquired Motivate, among other bike-share services, to help place dockless and pedal-assisted e-bikes in major U.S. cities.
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With fuel costs rising and diesel engine mechanics harder to find, many districts have begun looking at vehicles that use alternative fuels.
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SmartColumbus has joined with ODOt's DriveOhio to bring an automated shuttle service downtown this fall.
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Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has a "rapid transit" plan that would cost $300 million to create — but could politics bring a $1 billion Metrorail extension instead?
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The proposal wants to jump-start an Ohio economy that has been idle for decades in economic, population and wage growth as well as household income and poverty.
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An interactive look at autonomous vehicle projects and policies across the country as covered by Government Technology.
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The Idaho Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment Committee will hold its first meeting May 30 to begin the process of creating a framework for autonomous vehicle use and testing.
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The "Water-Go-Round" will be the first passenger ferry to use a new technology able to reduce greenhouse emissions significantly, helping revolutionize an industry largely taken over by fossil fuels.
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A camera system on an undisclosed stretch of Bay Area freeway is on the lookout for drivers ignoring the rules of the multi-passenger lanes.
