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 U.S. Department of Energy is issuing grants to 10 projects as a part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program.
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The 40-year-old system, which is the second busiest subway network in the country after the one in New York, faces not just one crisis, but several.
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The Bay Area’s dominant rail systems — BART and Caltrain — are bursting at the seams as ridership is rapidly overwhelming the services. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is in the midst of a major rail system expansion.
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The self-driving vehicle industry has yet to displace drivers, and data from the Indeed Hiring Lab shows that high-income job creation in the industry is rising fast.
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Experts agree that that there's a crucial link. On Nov. 8, Indianapolis' voters will decide if they buy the argument.
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On expert envisions automated vehicles carrying people of all ages and backgrounds to their destinations with the tap of a smartphone app.
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Oakley, Calif., is one small city trying to cash in on the explosion of smart city technology. Here's how they're doing it.
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Eventually the EASY Pay app, part of a new mobile ticketing system, will allow passengers to purchase from their phones seven-day and monthly passes.
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Ground is expected to be broken early next year for the first of up to seven buildings for a new aviation and technology center
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To ensure travel happens without incident, state and local lawmakers must embrace technologies designed with safety in mind.
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Sacramento will be among 16 select cites meeting next month to discuss ways to harness new technologies, including autonomous vehicles, as part of a new national study effort called the Smart Cities Collaborative.
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The majority of the funding will be spent to procure and install a ground-based sense-and-avoid system at the airport, allowing operators to provide safe separation between drones and other aircraft in the airspace.
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At the CityLab 2016 Conference held by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute, city officials were in the spotlight sharing their efforts to create a more livable space for residents.
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While autonomous vehicles are the ultimate destination for cars’ transformation, there will be plenty of waypoints along the road — and interim ways for drivers to benefit from new technologies.
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To protect public safety while allowing this sector to develop, policymakers will need to look out beyond where the technology is today.
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Boston recently announced a partnership with the World Economic Forum to test and deploy self-driving cars, and said at the time they could be on Boston streets before the end of the year.
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The City Council in April adopted a resolution supporting driverless vehicles for public transit, and the planning and IT departments are actively developing a strategy to make it happen.
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The hardware gives the cars enhanced vision and 40 times the processing power of existing vehicles.
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