Transportation

Snowplows in Syracuse, N.Y., have been equipped with fleet management technology from Samsara to improve snow removal operations and give residents a real-time picture of the city’s street conditions.

Honda on Monday unveiled a $124 million wind tunnel facility located in East Liberty, Ohio, with officials noting it will allow the company to test several products, including race and electrical vehicles.

According to a U.S. Department of Energy calculator, electric and hybrid vehicles are easily cheaper to run than gas-only vehicles, but consumers should also think about the total cost of their vehicles, experts say.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is set to begin a six-month pilot to deploy and test several electric service trucks, with the aim to eventually decarbonize its entire 1,000 vehicle fleet.

Bicycle and transportation researchers in Nashville, Tenn., are pointing to the growing phenomenon of electric bikes as the Music City develops its multimodal approach to transportation.

Transportation nodes serving as the meeting point for various transportation types are helping to accommodate the many mobility needs of city residents. They also serve as opportunities for stakeholders to collaborate.

University of Michigan researchers partnered with Ford Motor Company to study carbon emissions over the life of both electric vehicles and internal-combustion engines across the United States.

The Annapolis City Council has unanimously agreed to spend $1.5 million on an electric ferry and the infrastructure needed to support it. The city also plans to purchase other electric vehicles.

Fremont, a city in California’s Bay Area, is undertaking an upgrade of traffic signals along a busy street there to give priority to emergency vehicles and make travel safer for all users.

Plus, Instagram works to combat hate speech on its platform, password manager 1Password nears a $7 billion valuation and studies show how adjusting traffic signal timing significantly reduces pedestrian collisions.

For all of the incentives to aid in the purchase of an electric vehicle in California, dealers and buyers are asking for them to be easier to find, streamlined and available at the time of purchase.

State transportation departments are increasingly using road-based sensor technology to alert drivers of closures, detect crashes and notify emergency responders, and curb fatal truck accidents.

New research from the Argonne National Laboratory shows that greenhouse gas emissions are consistently less with EVs than gas-powered cars — even when the utility supplying their energy is using coal to generate it.

The U.S. Department of Transportation said $2.2B in federal funds would be available for 35 transit agencies across the country. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City will receive $769 million.

A bill recently passed by the Colorado House of Representatives would allow consumers and businesses to use digital license plates. The legislation is heading to the Colorado Senate.

The school board of Pittsburgh Public Schools will decide this month whether an artificial intelligence system will be deployed to fine and discourage people for illegally passing stopped school buses.

The legal fight over development of waterfront land in Baltimore has tilted in favor of a high-speed maglev train operator seeking to build a passenger station on the site where a developer separately proposed housing.

Thanks to an expected uptick in tax collections, the latest Washington legislative session will prove to be a busy one with various proposals, including a 16-year transportation plan.