Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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The company, spun out of Google, will multiply its driverless fleet size with Chrysler Pacificas.
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The company is racing against several other players in the self-driving automotive space to put vehicles into commercial operation.
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The city has had problems with disruptive transportation technology in the past. So when startups began blanketing other cities with electric scooters, Portland, Ore., decided to take a more measured approach before allowing them in.
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Seattle has the most alternative-fuel vehicles in its municipal fleet. But its fleet is supposed to be 100 percent alternative.
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With fuel costs rising and diesel engine mechanics harder to find, many districts have begun looking at vehicles that use alternative fuels.
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SmartColumbus has joined with ODOt's DriveOhio to bring an automated shuttle service downtown this fall.
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Everyday uses of artificial intelligence that can talk, listen and see are coming. Is government ready?
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Despite Minneapolis already being a dockless-bike friendly town, some worry about excessive theft and abandonment with more fleets on the streets.
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The state of New York is looking to regulate what towns will be able to charge for the newest cell transmitters.
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In a nearly $250 million deal, the ride-hailing company acquired Motivate, among other bike-share services, to help place dockless and pedal-assisted e-bikes in major U.S. cities.
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The move represents one major policy lever states have in trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
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The city of Sacramento is piloting digital license plates on a couple dozen of its electric cars, and the potential benefits of the dynamic new devices are many, including safety, diagnostics and public information.
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Rather than obeying the order to remove dockless scooters from public streets and sidewalks, two companies are hoping the city will come around.
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As one election turns into the next, Sacramento's divisive debate over rent control, data privacy and gas taxes are beginning to heat up.
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They've grown a little colder on self-driving vehicles.
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The city and county of Honolulu becomes the first government agency in the nation to pass a bill that caps fares charged by ridesharing services.
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The "Water-Go-Round" will be the first passenger ferry to use a new technology able to reduce greenhouse emissions significantly, helping revolutionize an industry largely taken over by fossil fuels.
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Federal law makes it hard for states to capitalize on one of their biggest assets: their highway systems. But that hasn’t stopped state officials from trying.
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