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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Planners with Yellowstone County and the city of Billings commissioned a feasibility study earlier this year to investigate whether a scooter-share or bike-share program would work here.
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The purchase of the additional buses follows a 2018 pilot that found the buses were reliable on their routes and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, despite having less range than diesel-powered counterparts.
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A research report by the University of Texas, Austin, identifies more than 127,000 acres of right-of-way areas at interstate exits around the country as suitable sites for locating solar power generating sites.
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Virgin Hyperloop announces that it has chosen West Virginia to be the location of testing and development of the high-speed travel system.
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Messages within ridesharing apps are urging riders to vote in favor of Proposition 22, which would carve out a new category of work for gig drivers and spare companies from paying for full employee benefits.
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New analysis by the Urban Institute explores the transit challenges for working poor living in suburbs in four U.S. metros. The data study forms the basis for new conversations around transportation equity.
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The new system being built by Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico would detect, monitor and provide real-time truck parking availability using dynamic message signs and smartphone and in-cab applications.
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Twenty-five transit projects from around the country received some $14 million in innovation grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration, growing projects like digital fare integration and trip-planning.
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A connected vehicle partnership project between the Utah Department of Transportation and Panasonic is moving into phase two, which includes more vehicles, roadside units and expanded data sharing.
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There are many reasons an electric bus would seem to be every city’s dream: It’s quieter, it’s less complex, and theoretically it runs on cheaper fuel.
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Longmont hosted an electric vehicle parade last Saturday to help promote to residents the more sustainable forms of transportation, with more than 50 electric vehicles traveling quietly through downtown.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials has added polling to its list of activities cities can consider repurposing streets for, as the nation prepares for a presidential election amid a pandemic.
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With Nissan making electric cars in Smyrna, Tenn., and Volkswagen soon making battery-powered ID.4 sport utility vehicles in Chattanooga, Tenn., one official says Tenn., is emerging as a leader in EVs.
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Electronic license plate maker Reviver plans to make the devices available beyond California and Arizona — two states currently offering them — and is in talks with four other states.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order mandating that all new passenger vehicles sold in California in 15 years be zero-emission — a category that includes battery-powered electric cars and others.
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The growing laundry list of connected devices and vehicles continue to make the case for platforms that pull all of the data into one easily accessible system. Two projects are doing just that in Georgia and South Dakota.
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Jersey City, N.J., is putting more vehicles on the streets to address the rising demand for the Via ride-sharing program. The increased funding of $2.8 million will allow the city to add nine vehicles.
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As part of a pilot project with transportation technology firm Coord, the city has set up five “smart zones” as locations to test technology to better manage the flow of delivery and other traffic on busy curbs.
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