Transportation

Public- and private-sector officials gathered this week at the CoMotion Miami conference to air new visions for mobility, and how to get there. Reimagining requests for proposals was one idea considered.

The Florida office at Midway Crossings will close Saturday and reopen Monday. Technology changes on the way include credit card machines at each checkout window and software to thwart appointment hoarding.

The Niagara County, N.Y., municipality will receive at least eight license plate readers to install around town, something Police Chief Frank Previte said would be used to help solve crimes.

In one month, AI-assisted cameras mounted on Los Angeles Metro buses generated nearly 10,000 citations for parking violations, according to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.

The state Department of Transportation has revealed the future sites of 12 new electric vehicle charging stations on two interstates. It will make another $4.7 million in state funding available to support the projects.

In remarks from Accenture headquarters in Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom offered more information on three new projects that will focus on reducing traffic, improving road safety and enhancing a state call center.

The center, operated by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, will be the central operations center for its growing fleet of autonomous transit vehicles. JTA will deploy 14 electric AV shuttles downtown by early summer.

With the goal of further enforcement of speeding and reckless driving laws, a bill that was recently passed in Connecticut calls for a plan to expand speed safety cameras on state highways.

Uber wants to become the go-to platform for operators of autonomous mobility services. Other companies like Waymo are becoming market leaders in their own way.

At the annual Curbivore conference in Los Angeles, city transit and tech leaders discussed how to keep moving forward in a new environment of shifting political priorities coming from Washington.

A transit network in Seattle has introduced technology to reduce “bus bunching” and space vehicles evenly on a route. And a suburban bus company in Chicago is taking steps to transition its fleet to zero-emission vehicles.

The state Department of Environmental Protection will grant “enforcement discretion” to automakers that are unable to meet zero-emission vehicles requirements in the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation for 2025 and 2026 models.

A partnership between Waymo and Uber launched last month brought the self-driving vehicles to the Texas capital. Data since shows Waymo accounting for 20 percent of all Uber trips in the city during the last week of March.

In a first, the California Department of Transportation is using two remote-controlled excavators to clear a landslide that closed a portion of Highway 1 in 2024. The equipment enables work in challenging areas.

The sheriff cited major errors in tickets and the inability of people to appeal their citations as reasons for cancelling the program, which flagged more than 407 paid violations per day, seven days a week.

The question of where speed cameras are allowed and where they aren't reveals a deeply divided nation. Government Technology mapped state laws and the locations of hundreds of speed camera programs across the country.

As bus drivers for Boston Public Schools got used to a new bus-tracking app, software allowed the district to collect and update real-time data on every bus route to make them more efficient.

The ride-share service and its mobile application, which are funded by a $2.1 million state grant, expanded in March 2024. Powered by transit software firm Via, the service has around 15 drivers.