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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PlanetM, which is an arm of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, awarded these grants to six companies that are seeking to launch mobility pilot projects soon somewhere within the state.
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The company will start its operations in Naples on a closed course to test the sensors and computing abilities. The vehicles will then roll out to public roads in Miami and then along highways as far north as Orlando.
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A new study by researchers at North Carolina State University concluded that e-scooters have a larger environmental footprint than other forms of micro-mobility. They're greener than cars, but still have room to improve.
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The city began working on regulations months before 45-year-old Quienterry McGriff’s deadly electric scooter accident Aug. 6, but has still not passed any rules. The incident has rekindled regulation discussions.
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The new contactless payment system rolling out across the New York City bus and subway network launched at the end of May. Some 80 percent of riders "tap" into the system via a digital wallet.
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The license plate recognition system employed at Northern Arizona University parking lots will reduce the need for physical permits and kiosks, but it won’t be fully implemented until 2020, officials say.
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The Metropolitan Transit Authority will lead several year-long pilot projects to improve rider experience and system performance. The projects include crowd management and push alerts to ease congestion at stations.
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An 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in Georgia will be outfitted with a data management platform to support a connected vehicle pilot project and create a learning lab to educate jurisdictions about the technology.
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Despite securing a $1.8 million federal air-quality grant last year, the Ohio region’s transit authority is slowing down on plans to pilot autonomous people movers in the city later this year.
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The company’s CEO wants to push the feature out to customers, but auto executives worry that premature deployment of fully driverless technology would result in crashes, injuries and deaths and rile up regulators.
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The data officials thought would show one or two drivers going the wrong way turned out to 30 to 40 a week — a dangerous situation in the best of circumstances. But new tech may help buck this potentially deadly trend.
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Las Vegas plans to expand a traffic analysis project across downtown to gather data related to drivers heading the wrong direction on one-way streets, among other findings.
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The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada participated in a pilot project by INRIX to test-drive its new Road Rules platform, joining six other public entities across the country.
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The Texas transportation hub is one of the latest to begin public testing of self-driving shuttles from Easy Mile. Travelers can now ride from the Barbara Jordan terminal to rental car and ground transportation areas.
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The city of Boston's former CIO will lead the new foundation, which governs the transportation-focused Mobility Data Specification. The nation's three largest cities and Microsoft are among the foundation's members.
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The system, which applies the brakes or sends out an alert to warn a driver when a pedestrian is crossing the street, could be the difference between an uneventful day and a deadly collision.
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Shared e-scooter programs may seem like a green way to get around, but these small vehicles can have big environmental footprints.
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A Consumer Watchdog report highlights what it describes as the key security flaw in connected vehicles, noting that the potential vulnerability is growing because of the increasing number of such vehicles on the roads.
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