Transportation

An apprenticeship program at Velocity Vehicle Group in the Los Angeles metro area is training workers to service heavy-duty electric vehicles. The training is partnered with similar educational opportunities at Rio Hondo College.

All-electric buses are now operating in nearly every state in the nation, according to new data from the federal government. Use this tool to see which agencies are leading the electric bus charge.

Removal of snow is among the most important tasks of state and local governments. Newer mapping and other tools are helping officials better deploy plows even as public works departments face severe staffing shortages.

Transportation officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are working on a plan to use Glydcars — small, electric and autonomous vehicles — to make last-mile connections to more traditional forms of transit.

A new computer simulation is helping NASA and Joby Aviation better understand how air taxis and other electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles can fly at the country's busiest airports.

The state has finished spending the funds it received from the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, using the money to boost the number of EV chargers and electric, heavy-duty vehicles.

Sioux Falls has selected a transit provider to operate its transportation service. The move promises to bring new innovations and efficiencies for transit users in South Dakota’s largest city.

While some cities and companies are recoiling from the risks posed by autonomous driving technology, Arlington is picking up some of the slack with its own program in the downtown area.

Bus operators face a lot of challenges on the clock, but they say technology shouldn’t be one of them. From the reliability of newer electric buses to employee monitoring software, drivers weighed in on the demanding job.

Fully independent vehicles remain far from everyday options, as tech companies and automakers struggle to perfect the technology. Advocates believe the technology could one day be safer than riding with human drivers.

Before Tesla's recall of more than 2 million vehicles for a software update related to Autopilot, more than 100 Tesla accidents in the Bay Area had drawn attention from federal investigators.

An audit for the year ending June 30 by a Charleston-based accounting firm found that an agency within the Department of Transportation was risking unauthorized access to critical information systems.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has opened the application process for private and public entities to tap into federal funds to own and operate electric vehicle charging stations.

New understandings related to parking, micromobility safety, intersection activity and more are being realized thanks to smart transportation technologies. Officials say the data they are able to collect opens the door to new innovations.

Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm is leaving mid-January after a short 16 months on the job, throwing the agency into another search for a leader amid the nation's largest transit expansion program.

As cities work to get more electric vehicles and micromobility options like e-bikes onto streets, they're also putting livability and equity at the center of how technology can improve the urban experience.

Once the home of a juvenile detention center, a 25-acre site is now slated to house the California Mobility Center, which will be a center of innovation in the zero-emission transportation sector.

Seamless and easy car-charging is the goal for drivers and the auto industry. But getting to complete interoperability is still an elusive target requiring widespread coordination among multiple stakeholders and standards.