Transportation

A small North Carolina town hosted a test pilot of an all-electric, autonomous public transportation shuttle. Survey data reveals what riders said about how they felt before and after riding. 

Residents of Midland, Texas, got an up close look at a caravan of various electric vehicles during an event aimed at removing the mystery and stigma associated with the increasingly popular technology.

The mobile app seeks to make it easier for transit drivers to complete administrative tasks, keep in touch with management and communicate about schedules. It also aims to help agencies retain drivers amid a shortage.

Rides on the region's paratransit van service Call-A-Ride were canceled early Saturday after a cyber attack on Metro Transit left the agency unable to contact customers or access the scheduling system.

Despite years of work to distribute, install and integrate the signs into Houston's internationally acclaimed traffic management system, officials have brought only 36 of the 91 dynamic message signs online.

CapMetro in Austin, Texas, aims to put in place the kinds of public policy that will reverse gentrification trends with a blueprint to put equity at the center of its project planning process.

States like Georgia and North Carolina are courting the electric vehicle industry, attracting investments from not only car companies, but battery and charging manufacturing efforts as well.

School district officials have explained that the district followed the legal procurement process and solicited bids for patrol vehicles from more than 90 vendors and auto dealers.

Nearly all of the 100 largest metros across the United States charted a growth in biking activity from 2019 to 2022, a new analysis of the transportation sector shows. Walking, meanwhile, has declined.

Electric vehicle charging developments are making car charging increasingly ubiquitous across the American landscape, with chargers in familiar travel locations like truck stops and curbside parking spaces.

Cities across Northern California are turning to AI-powered chatbots versed in dozens of languages to answer residents' questions and intake service requests for things like pothole repair, graffiti and parking fines payment.

The Turnpike Commission has approved a contract with Applegreen Electric to install, operate and maintain electric vehicle charging stations at every service plaza by January 2027, officials announced.

The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District's Board of Directors unanimously voted to buy 57 hydrogen-powered, fuel-cell electric buses that will largely serve the Watsonville area.

The digital curb management project in Seattle marks one of the city’s first steps toward fully modernizing how curbs are managed, given the widening demands on these spaces by commercial fleets and conventional parking.

Some 53 overhead charging stations are set to be installed at Metropolitan Transportation Authority depots in Staten Island, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, according to a recent announcement by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The U.S. Department of Energy has launched an educational campaign that stresses the benefits of installing null charging ports in employee parking areas at workplaces.

The transportation authority wants to erect up to 49 billboard structures, most with double-sided display screens, which would result in 86 total digital billboards throughout the city.

Haverford Township in Pennsylvania transitioned its downtown public parking from digital kiosks to the ParkMobile system, which removes clunky hardware from streets and replaces the parking experience with an app.