Transportation

The Georgia Department of Transportation and Cambridge Mobile Telematics have announced the launch of Reach Home Safely, a safe driving app to improve road safety and prevent crashes.

As railways increasingly rely on digital connectivity, a “strategic alliance” between Digi International and Cylus combines their products into a unified solution designed to offer better cyber protection.

A poll of 600 likely voters in the November general election found more than half felt it important for the state to become the center of electric vehicle manufacturing — but only about one-quarter would consider buying an EV.

A new report on micromobility ridership in 2023 from the National Association of City Transportation Officials examines trends in the use of shared bikes and scooters, in the U.S. and Canada.

Acadia National Park had no electric bicycles on its carriage roads as recently as five years ago. Today, that’s a different story. Fully half of the bicycles rolling along its scenic roads today are e-bikes, officials said.

East Lansing-based ADASTEC will bring the vehicle to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore within the week, then program and test it with a safety driver. Lakeshore tours on the bus will be available starting in mid-August.

The hub’s 37 projects will center on long-haul trucking, heavy cargo shipping, power generation and aviation. The state was chosen as a national hub by the U.S. Department of Energy. A $1.2 billion contract formalized that this month.

Tulsa Innovation Labs has received a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to develop an innovation hub that will look at ramping up advanced manufacturing for autonomous systems, from agriculture to transportation.

The technology has been used since 2021 at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to check arriving international passengers. The Transportation Security Administration is now using it at checkpoints for all departing passengers.

The South Pasadena Police Department is now comprised of 20 Tesla vehicles, a transition that is nearly complete. As electrifying fleets rises in popularity, the force is among the first in the nation to go all electric.

The successful deployment of an online parking reservation system in June at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has revealed high demand for spaces. An expansion is likely in coming months.

Council members in the Washington county voted to adopt what’s known as the Safe Systems Approach, in a move to lower transportation fatalities. Technological aids like cameras and speed governors on official vehicles could follow.

The Regional Transportation District has installed a “live look-in system” on all buses, letting police dispatchers see and hear people, situations and events onboard in real-time. The move, which began last year, is aimed at increasing safety.

GreenWealth Energy and Voltpost will expand low-speed, dwell charging at multifamily housing locations and curbside, to make electric vehicles a more workable solution for renters and people with lower incomes.

On an empty site where a motor home factory previously stood, Georgia bus maker Blue Bird is now building a 600,000-square-foot, 400-worker factory to produce electric school buses.

More than 60 percent of drivers would find it acceptable if vehicles gave an audible and visual warning when they exceeded the posted speed limit, according to a new survey from a highway safety group.

In the year’s second quarter, 704 EV charging stations came online nationwide — bringing the total number of public fast-charging sites to nearly 9,000. At this rate, they will outnumber U.S. gas stations inside a decade.

Traveling across the West in an electric car turned out to have unexpected thrills, and occasional frustrations. Our reporter found that the chargers were out there — but connecting with them sometimes meant taking the long way around.