FutureStructure Transportation
-
Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
-
Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
-
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.
More Stories
-
The Colorado Department of Transportation will use a self-driving Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV), as a barrier to protect highway workers.
-
Ford has invest $1 billion in Argo AI, which will help the auto giant develop autonomous vehicles by 2021. Argo is currently testing Ford Fusion hybrids on the streets of Pittsburgh.
-
People and cars will need to communicate in some other way.
-
Ford has also said it will invest $1 billion over the next five years in Argo AI, a self-driving startup.
-
States like New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Nevada are all open to continuing research in truck-platooning.
-
If it’s not in your car now, it will probably be in your next one.
-
Researchers are developing a system that makes sure drivers who go the wrong way are easier to alert and track.
-
For the revolution to succeed, smart regulators and thoughtful entrepreneurs will need to work together.
-
The vision is an almost cyborg-like car, with features closely linked to the driver.
-
The city is looking for 1,600 private vehicle volunteers for pilot program to measure safety features along the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.
-
Intel is counting on the data-intensive autonomous driving market to fill some of that gap.
-
In this Q&A, Harriet Tregoning, former principal deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, talks about the importance of managing change and that things need to be designed for adaptation.
-
Velodyne now makes lidar, the laser-based sensors that let autonomous cars see their surroundings with stunning precision, even at freeway speed
-
To preserve their communities' economic and social well-being, leaders will need to manage an endless cycle of technological disruption.
-
Transit officials there are nearing the end of a one-year pilot program that could reinvent paratransit services.
-
Mainstream analysts have assumed adoption of fully autonomous vehicles will take much longer, despite predictions by entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk that they are just around the corner.
-
The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria's latest edition has new instructions for reporting the emerging sector of autonomous vehicles.
-
The few projects that have studied mileage-based usage taxes have been in California, Oregon and Washington. This will be the first East Coast study.
Most Read
- Your Smart Home Is Watching You: Privacy in the Age of AI Robots
- Cyber Attacks on Schools Plateaued in 2025, but More Records Exposed
- What tech does this camera use to watch your back on your bike?
- Alabama Creates AI, Emerging Tech Oversight Board
- A 2025 Retrospective and Predictions for 2026 From Jeff Cook