Transportation

After their success in other locations, Waymo has announced their plan to bring their robotaxi service to Los Angeles. The company has been mapping the roads since 2019 but does not know when the service will be available.

Earlier this week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that it had begun a three-day demonstration period to test the use of electric autonomous vehicle shuttles at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Metrolink, a Southern California commuter rail service, no longer powers its locomotives with petroleum-derived diesel and has switched to more natural plant- and animal-based renewable fuels.

The Fresno County Rural Transit Agency has launched a new electric vehicle ride-sharing program meant to beef up transportation options in and around Fresno’s rural, unincorporated communities.

The state Department of Transportation recently purchased a new data system from TomTom — the company that pioneered the idea of GPS navigation systems in our cars — that provides real-time traffic data.

Data delivered via the gov tech provider could help city officials bring more taxis to underserved areas, better serve disabled riders and craft other programs. The push follows similar work in L.A. involving scooters.

The city of Beaumont's new electric scooter program has seen a significant increase in ridership in less than a year, but the council has safety concerns about a spike in underage riding.

Two buses in a Georgia school district outfitted with technology to allow them to communicate with traffic signals gave the buses green lights on heavily traveled corridors, resulting in improved performance.

The city’s recent pitch about a sweeping transit-focused development ordinance, dubbed “Connected Communities,” passed in July as part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bid to combat segregation and gentrification.

The Los Angeles International Airport website was inaccessible Monday morning after a disruption from pro-Russia hacking group Killnet. The group has recently been targeting airport and state government websites.

Seniors riding the Monterey-Salinas Transit system can now use the Cal-ITP Benefits app to quickly confirm their eligibility for discounted fares, and then tap-and-pay with a credit or debit card.

Plus, a new study identifies stumbling blocks to AI adoption, a dam in China will be Earth's largest 3D-printed structure built by automation and theft of cryptocurrency skyrockets.

The Monday outage did not affect airport operations, according to airport officials. A handful of U.S. airport websites were also down early Monday morning, including Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and several others.

Up until recently, the move to electric fleet vehicles in Cary, N.C., has centered on smaller vehicles, like police cars and riding mowers. Now, the city’s first side-loading garbage truck will be put into regular service.

The rural northern community of Grand Rapids is now being served by Minnesota’s Autonomous Rural Transit Initiative, an 18-month pilot program to explore the use of self-driving on-demand microtransit.

The latest Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority pilot project, MARTA Reach, pulled in the expertise of tech giant Microsoft and students at Georgia Tech to build a platform that helped to close first- and last-mile gaps.

On Monday, the MTA announced that it will expand the use of high-tech automated mobile cameras installed on buses to capture real-time bus lane violations along its routes in an effort to speed up service.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new pollutant standards and plans to increase electric vehicle sales starting in 2026. The announcement closely follows California's decision to phase out the sale of new gasoline vehicles.