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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City officials of Kettering, Ohio are enacting a one-year ban on e-scooters and e-bikes, citing safety concerns. The hiatus will allow city officials to further study the issue and draft new regulations.
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The GATRA created a smartphone app to offer on-demand transportation services for Massachusetts residents in Mansfield, Plainville and Foxborough. The app mimics Lyft and Uber but all vehicles are wheel-chair accessible.
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Consumers in the largest electric car market in the country still find it difficult to name an electric vehicle brand beyond Tesla. New data suggests that drivers have more options than ever but less awareness.
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A group that lobbies for lawyers who typically represent plaintiffs is objecting to a lack of concrete protections that would ensure the right to sue an automaker if someone is hurt or killed in a self-driving vehicle.
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At the inaugural Fremont Mobility Summit last week in Silicon Valley, officials presented the city's newly released Mobility Action Plan. The plan centers on rethinking transportation and infrastructure in the region.
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INIT Innovations in Transportation, which has developed software for use with buses, light rail and trains since 1999, designed ASSISTIVEtravel, a passenger information and journey planning app.
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A company that builds EV charging stations across Colorado is teaming with a national trade association representing truck stop operators to make it easier for electric vehicles to recharge nationwide.
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A school district in California is partnering with the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority and autonomous electric shuttle maker Local Motors to provide technical education related to autonomous vehicles.
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As transportation companies continue their push to develop reliable autonomous vehicles, the first fleet of driverless mass transit shuttles has officially hit the streets of the United States.
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Uber plans to conduct autonomous vehicle tests in San Francisco, the headquarters city for the 11-year-old company that sparked a transportation revolution with the introduction of app-based ride hailing.
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A bill that would leave it to local governments to regulate electric scooters cleared the Georgia Senate this week, addressing a set of vehicles that have overtaken Atlanta and other cities across the state.
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The Ignite Action Fund, spearheaded by Smart Columbus, has helped to transition commuters to other forms of shared transit by partnering with workplaces to offer the initiative as an employee benefit.
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One state lawmaker is floating a plan to raise the gas tax to 16 cents per gallon, while doubling the registration fee for electric vehicles from $100 to $200. The plan would add an estimated $35 million to state coffers.
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The organization, dedicated to advancing alternative modes of transportation in the Ohio region, has rolled out more than 800 charging ports across a seven-county area. More are slated to come online in 2020.
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Transit agencies in several cities have partnered with Via to provide curb-to-curb micro-transit. The idea behind these partnerships is to reduce barriers created by gaps in more traditional options.
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Alto, a small rideshare with roughly 10,000 active subscribers, is expanding in its home city and pushing into another Texas city and California. The company wants to operate in 15 large U.S. metro areas in 3 to 4 years.
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A partnership among Virginia DOT, Virginia Tech, Audi and Qualcomm will introduce connected vehicle technologies for Audi drivers in northern Virginia. Participants hope the technology will help save lives on roadways.
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Sidewalk riding bans have been a point of tension among scooter companies, local gov and riders as everyone points fingers about who’s to blame for breaking the law and who should enforce it.
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