Transportation

Naperville is joining other Chicago suburbs in cracking down on e-bikes and e-scooters, with the city council considering setting an age limit at 16 and a maximum speed limit of 15 mph on multiuse paths.

City officials sought to clarify where the devices and others can and cannot be used. A city official said in September there had been a “rise in complaints from residents” about electric bikes on sidewalks.

The state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is paying for overnight chargers at 31 multifamily properties in Detroit suburbs. Grants come from the Clean Fuel and Charging Infrastructure Program.

The Connecticut ACLU is demanding officials turn off automatic license plate reader cameras across the state until laws are passed to prevent misuse of personal data collected by the surveillance.

A project from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research builds electrically conductive sensor wire into pavement, which allows for regular monitoring of road conditions without disrupting traffic.

Self-driving vehicles from the California-based company have been on the move for months in the capital city. The state, however, does not yet have a government agency to provide independent regulatory oversight.

City Council members have approved spending $821,000 from grants to install 10 electric vehicle chargers. The city, its interim city manager said, lags behind peers in offering such infrastructure.

The company is doing the groundwork for fully autonomous ride-hailing services next year in the city. San Diego, an official said, ranks among the nation’s top 15 municipalities in ride-hailing demand.

A month of amnesty on parking ticket penalties in Syracuse, N.Y., will begin with in-person or mail payments. Online payments will follow — once more than 140,000 tickets dating to 1997 are set up in the system.

Chippewa County International Airport, in the eastern Upper Peninsula, appears destined to become a drone hub for future flights near the Canadian border. A project there received $400,000 in state funding.

The city’s transit provider is working with AI-powered tools on an initiative known as “traffic service priority,” using onboard technology to assist in improving speeds and decreasing travel times.

Drivers in the Grand Canyon State should soon have access to dozens more high-speed electric vehicle charging ports, with most of the funding coming from the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program.

Residents can now store digital driver’s licenses and state ID cards on their Apple devices. The app can be used at most Transportation Security Administration checkpoints nationwide.

Mayor Mike Johnston’s office is extending Denver’s contract with Flock Safety — a company that operates AI-powered license plate readers throughout the city — for five months without any additional cost.

A new report from CHARGE makes the case for federal spending on clean transportation projects, saying these initiatives grow private investment, create jobs and transition the country toward an improved mobility landscape.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins hope to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities each year by using large language models to process, understand and learn from massive amounts of data.

The hub will explore new transportation initiatives while also potentially offering rail service into Toronto, all from Michigan Central, a site that once housed Detroit's passenger train station.

Newburgh Heights reported collecting the money from fines generated by two traffic cameras, during a roughly yearlong period that ended in July. Cleveland is considering bringing the devices back.