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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The state legislature is considering two bills, one of which would define where e-bikes and scooters could be parked and the second of which would set a speed limit. Neither pre-empts local regulation.
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A new report released by traffic analysis firm INRIX highlights the 25 most congested cities in the U.S., and experts in some of those locales see opportunities to get smarter about how they manage the flow of traffic.
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City officials are considering an ordinance that would create a broad regulatory framework for on-demand electric scooters, bikes and whatever else might come next for the mobility industry.
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The city wants to leverage data from the popular transportation planning platform to help set regulations that will impact how people move about the city, and the role providers will play in delivering mobility services.
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Maine's largest city put out the signal for bike-share companies to sign up for a yearlong pilot test. But only one, the Uber subsidiary Jump, responded. The company wants to deploy 500 bikes.
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The state Department of Environment and Department of Transportation will use the money from their settlement with Volkswagen and Audi to begin funding EV charging stations and replacing diesel buses with electric.
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Taxes on gasoline could decline as electric vehicles become more popular. While they are still the minority on the U.S. roads, sales of are growing as travel range increases and prices fall.
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Interline and the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission are working to create a single platform where people can find all the information they need to travel seamlessly using multiple transit operators.
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Two of the shuttles are slated to become the first-ever autonomous public transit vehicles in Central Florida, moving passengers through an area that boasts Lake Nona Medical City and the UCF College of Medicine.
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Two self-driving shuttles have launched at the Sacramento campus as part of a three-month pilot program, and the mayor says it shows strong potential for being continued.
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Suggestions that the state’s 28-cent gas takes should jump another 18 cents started the search for other alternatives. Some think Oregon’s tax plan on mileage in non-gasoline vehicles looks promising.
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A pilot between the state Department of Transportation and Michigan-based May Mobility began Wednesday as a so-called mini fleet took to the streets of Providence. Backup drivers will be monitoring the vehicles during the pilot.
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Deteriorating infrastructure and the potential for injury has the California city and on-demand scooter suppliers Bird, Lime, Lyft, Razor and Spin tussling over who should be held responsible when a rider is hurt.
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After decades of relying on paper processes, California's Contra Costa Transportation Authority is discovering the power of online information and digital devices to manage road projects and inspections in real time.
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Across the nation, cyclist fatalities have increased by 25 percent since 2010 and pedestrian deaths have risen by a staggering 45 percent.
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As scooters from companies like Bird and Lime become regular fixtures in U.S. cities, local governments should adopt regulatory sandboxes to determine how to best handle the new technology rather than ban it altogether.
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In Clovis, N.M., the painstaking, manual task of geocoding every street sign and roadway object has been automated using an imagery platform from Mapillary that integrates cameras, computer vision and algorithms.
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The Arcimoto Rapid Responder is just a little different from most emergency response vehicles. But with possible advantages in operating cost and size, it has three local government agencies on board to test it out.
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