Transportation

Across the country, transit agencies are getting involved in vaccination efforts. Many are giving people free rides to vaccine sites via bus, train or light rail routes, or are using their fleets for door-to-door pickup.

The Ray, a highway testbed in Georgia, is partnering with Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, the Texas Department of Transportation and the city of Austin to explore transportation opportunities.

The two companies are working to build a line of fully integrated electric vehicles. Optimus Ride had previously modified around 30 Polaris vehicles with autonomous vehicle technology systems.

The city has kicked off an innovative pilot that uses autonomous vehicles to provide on-demand transit services. The project, which has been named RAPID, involves several partners.

The company has been growing in recent years, gathering city customers around the world and expanding into curb management and street closure solutions. Now its investors are re-upping, and new ones are jumping aboard.

Via, which provides on-demand micro-transit services in dozens of cities, has acquired transportation planning platform Remix in a $100 million deal. The deal may help cities offer better integrated transit options.

Portland Metro, an elected planning body serving the greater Portland, Ore. region, is no longer working with movement data company Replica, due to disagreements around the level of data the company would share.

FedEx is the latest in a long line of American companies that are committing to carbon neutrality as more industries continue to alter their usual practices in an effort to combat climate change.

Amid tightening environmental regulations driving an industrywide shift to electric vehicles, Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday detailed a major step forward in its path to an all-electric future.

Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday announced millions of dollars in new transportation investments meant to bring a cleaner environment and years of good-paying jobs to portions of the Garden State.

The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.

The Silver State's award-winning Intelligent Transportation System serves the traveling public today with an eye on the future

The GM-backed company logged more than 770,000 miles last year, while its rival Waymo LLC drove just under 629,000. Both drove hundreds of thousands of miles more than other top brands in the space.

New leadership in the White House and at the U.S. Department of Transportation could signal renewed interest in projects centered on improving mobility around cities, as well as larger rail capital projects.

A group of nearly four-dozen automakers, industry advocacy groups and corporations sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging action on legislation that would allow for greater deployment of autonomous vehicles.

To help jump start the growing EV market, America's biggest public utility is teaming up with Tennessee in a new initiative to build a network of fast-charging stations every 50 miles along major highways.

The Xcelsior AV — an electric, autonomous transit bus, developed by New Flyer and Robotic Research — is headed for testing in a pilot project with the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

The automaker said it aspires to have all of its global new light-duty vehicles, including full-size pickups and SUVs, be zero emission by 2035. It also targets 2040 for its global products and plants to be carbon neutral.