Transportation
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California electric utilities plan to launch a program to help pay for electric vehicle charging, for income-qualified households that do not have charging at home. Other initiatives are already underway. -
The newest Transit Tech Lab competition focuses on such areas as data modernization, infrastructure management and workflows. Finalists have a chance to work with city officials and enter procurement.
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The robotaxi maker has been testing its newest vehicle on Texas streets since late December. Now, one of the cars has been spotted on a highway at night, which obscured any view of a driver.
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City officials are in the process of considering a grant from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago that would pay 50 percent of construction costs to convert an old parking garage to a green facility.
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A bill passed in the state Legislature in December cleared the way for continued testing of electronic license plates. Several other states are also weighing the pros and cons of the technology.
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A new transportation analytics tool by StreetLight Data allows cities to view a detailed look at all biking and pedestrian trips.
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Lima city leaders met with Ohio Department of Transportation to ask one very specific question: How can DriveOhio, the state's tech initiative for traffic, help with congestion caused by trains?
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The federal deadline for Metro-North railroad to fully install Positive Train Control has passed without an operational system, but the railroad technically complied with the law mandating its installation.
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The money from Michigan's Mobility Challenge grant project, started under the last governor, will go toward projects involving rural rideshare, paratransit, veteran transportation and self-driving vehicles.
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Peachtree Corners’ $2 million track has been in the works for months, but the addition of the telecommunications company will provide access to a high-speed 5G network for connected vehicles and infrastructure.
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit District recently launched a multimodal trip-planning tool that considers transit data from more than 30 transportation operators across nine counties in the San Francisco metro area.
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To push users toward different kinds of transportation — including its own bike-share — the company has started to include routes and schedules for Metra, CTA and the South Shore Line.
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After months of consideration, the city council voted to ban the on-demand scooters from sidewalks in most of the uptown area as well as add a speed cap and per-unit fee for companies.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged during his State of the City speech Thursday to expand and enforce bus priority on streets, aiming to improve average bus speeds by 25 percent by the end of 2020.
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Experts discussed various emerging transportation opportunities during a Department of Transportation-hosted summit in Raleigh Jan. 9.
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A recommendation from the Pathways Commission has set the stage for the council to weigh in on city code and where the rentable transportation fits in the community.
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A survey by the American Public Transportation Association finds that millennials value transit, but agencies must take the lead in becoming mobility managers to keep up with changing travel options.
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As Uber gets ready to pilot commercial aerial vehicles in 2023 in Dallas and Los Angeles, municipal officials said significant challenges confront all cities around transportation equity and solving underlying issues.
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Technology rolled out Friday in Minnesota and seven other states aims to help truckers find parking by broadcasting the number of open spaces at rest areas.
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GRIDSMART, based in Knoxville, Tenn., uses cameras and computers to classify and count vehicles going through intersections. The company, now joining Cubic Transportation Systems, works in 1,200 cities across the globe.
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A roughly 18-mile section of Interstate 25 is set to become a testbed for a connected vehicle and infrastructure program being funded by a $20 million federal grant.
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