Transportation

San Diego-based Veyo, which developed an Uber-style model to get Medicaid and Medicare members to doctor's appointments, inked a deal to be sold to rival Medical Transportation Management for an undisclosed price.

Volkswagen Chattanooga on Wednesday unveiled a new battery engineering lab that officials say will help make the plant the epicenter of the automaker's electric vehicle efforts in North America.

The controversial tunnel project proposal has taken another step toward reality with commissioners tapping Elon Musk’s Boring Company to study the feasibility of building two 2.7-mile-long underground tunnel routes.

In one Washington city, disagreement persists on what kind of e-bikes, if any, should be allowed in places where they could create additional safety risks or cause damage to fragile environments.

More electric buses are coming to Whatcom roads — the question is how many and when as the Whatcom Transportation Authority continues to work toward a bus fleet that produces no planet-warming emissions by 2040.

Wisconsin’s Chippewa Falls Police made the jump to hybrid patrol vehicles late last year and has seen a drastic reduction in spending on fuel. Four of the five squads predominantly driven by officers are now hybrids.

The software provider, which uses AI to predict danger, recently demonstrated its products to the Florida DOT. A company executive details the company’s visions and plans as pedestrian and cyclist deaths increase.

Ten transportation technology companies were selected for eight-week project deployments in the New York City metro region to explore artificial intelligence, sustainability and other technology areas to innovate transit.

With a permit issued this week by the California Public Utilities Commission, autonomous vehicle maker Cruise became the first commercial robotaxi business in the state and the second in the U.S.

A futuristic project that would bring self-driven autonomous vehicles to New Jersey’s capital city has received interest from about 20 companies, city officials said this week, with one company holding a demo.

An Eastern Iowa railroad company has been awarded a $7.2 million federal grant to upgrade its line that serves industries in the Cedar Rapids area. The grant is one of 46 federal grant projects in 32 states.

Micromobility operators Superpedestrian and Helbiz will partner with Populus to gather and analyze trip, crash, infrastructure and other data to give cities better planning tools to make bike and scooter travel safer.

Switching out county vehicles due for replacement is part of a fleet electrification pilot program that may be a first step in converting a roughly 1,200-vehicle fleet, particularly a non-emergency pool of 295 vehicles.

The new mobile ticketing platform used by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is also operational on popular national transportation apps like Uber, Moovit and the Transit app.

The Israel-based firm, expanding in North America, has joined a recent uptick in gov tech firms with valuations of $1B or more. The Optibus success provides signals about what’s next for transit software and other tools.

It's been a year since the Department of Motor Vehicles opened an investigation into Tesla's sales pitch for its Full Self-Driving feature, which supposedly enables a car to drive itself through city streets.

The plant is being built through a joint partnership between Stellantis and Samsung SDI to produce batteries for a range of electric vehicles produced at Stellantis' North American assembly plants.

Watchers of micromobility are seeing closer partnerships and collaborations between scooter and bike-share operators and other providers of mobility services such as public transit and ride-hailing.