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Bus driver shortages and new concepts like school choice, offering a range of potential campuses, pose new challenges for school transportation planners. Digital route-planning tools with artificial intelligence can address both. -
A project to connect Union Station in Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium via a mile-long gondola run aims to be done for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. A similar aerial initiative is moving forward in neighboring Orange County.
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The autonomous vehicle firm, a sister company to Google, will begin road trips this summer to test and explore its offerings in Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, Fla. In Houston, about 10 vehicles will be on the road.
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The state program aimed at encouraging drivers to buy electric vehicles with $5,000 rebates expired in December, falling short of its intended goal. Now, some are wondering if the program will come back.
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Through a partnership with Waze, NJ Transit is working to alert drivers as they approach railroad crossings. Since 1975, 187 people have been killed at railroad crossings in the state, according to federal data.
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Although researchers have consistently found that electric vehicles emit less carbon than traditional automobiles, the state of the overall electric grid may determine whether the environment will be cleaner.
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The Los Angeles Metro Board voted to move forward with developing a pilot project that would make transit free for students and low-income riders on one of the nation’s largest transit systems.
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Earlier this week, city council members in Waterloo, Iowa, changed a number of local ordinances so that residents can start renting e-scooters from California-based company Bird. The scooters will arrive next week.
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Peachtree Corners, Ga., is partnering with Qualcomm Technologies and Jacobs to deploy direct vehicle-to-everything communications in two city vehicles as a development to improve safety and traffic management.
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The provision would expand the $7,500 tax credit for vehicles costing less than $80,000, eliminate the cap for automakers and add $2,500 for autos built by union members and for vehicles assembled in the United States.
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The Utah Department of Transportation is partnering with Blyncsy to provide dashcam imagery showing road conditions in and around Salt Lake City. The cameras will be mounted on ride-share vehicles, among others.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the organization responsible for public transportation in New York City, will buy 60 electric buses this year. The move will give MTA 85 total electric buses by the end of 2021.
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Transit agencies in Maryland and Massachusetts have turned to renewable energy microgrid projects to better manage the needs of their bus fleets. The move will also help meet aggressive sustainability goals.
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Sarasota County, Fla., has partnered with a subsidiary of Via Transportation to provide an on-demand public transit option. Some fixed routes of the current transit system will be eliminated.
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Eleven years after former President Barack Obama pushed for a national network of high-speed trains, the Biden administration is picking up that torch with a focus on the Sunshine State.
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The startup, which offers transportation technology with a focus on parking, has grown very quickly in the past four years. Recently the area of curb management has attracted a lot of attention in the tech world.
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Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is experimenting with autonomous technology from ThorDrive in its vehicles carrying luggage between the terminal and aircraft.
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Globally, America once produced 37 percent of all semiconductors, which go in everything from cars to computers. Now, it produces only 12 percent. Expert Skanda Amarnath shares his thoughts on how policy can change this.
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Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board voted to require ride-hailing businesses to begin using more electric vehicles in 2023. By 2030, 90 percent of the companies' miles must come from EVs.
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Drones, robots and self-driving cars were all buzzing through downtown Westminster, Md., on Thursday for the ribbon-cutting of the first phase of MAGIC's autonomous corridor project in the region.
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New York City's transit system faces a financially uncertain future as it attempts to return ridership to pre-COVID levels during a wave of assaults that is discouraging people from using the subway.
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