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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Plus, a university café sells students coffee in exchange for their personal data, and a team of researchers at NYU have created artificial fingerprints that accurately imitate real biometric IDs.
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City and industry officials gathered in Sacramento, Calif., for day two of the annual Meeting of the Minds Summit to discuss the problems and opportunities in the transportation sector.
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Columbus, Dublin, Athens and Marysville have all signed agreements with the state’s Department of Transportation to be part of the DriveOhio autonomous and connected vehicle pilot.
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City and industry officials are gathered in Sacramento, Calif., for the annual Meeting of the Minds Summit to discuss problems and technological solutions in areas like transportation, sustainability and equity.
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In partnership with the Ohio Department of Transportation and Honda, the city of Marysville announced this week that all of its traffic lights will be upgraded with connected technology, along with 1,200 vehicles.
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Some 150 smart signals will be deployed across so-called “smart spines,” which lead in and out of the downtown area. The project has $11.3 million earmarked for 2019, and $15.1 million for 2020.
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The rise of on-demand delivery services are putting additional stress on already busy city streets, according to a report by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management and the research firm 6t.
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Companies peddling by-the-mile electric scooters have rapidly set up shop across the U.S., forcing cities to weigh the benefits with the problems they bring.
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The experiment, which used AI to identify hot spots that police and transportation officials then responded to, was limited to one section of highway. And there are other mitigating factors — like hockey, for one.
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Biometric screening made its debut at DFW before a recent flight to Tokyo that had passengers take a picture before boarding. The limited pilot now operates at two gates in Terminal D, but will soon expand to 75.
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State legislators in Texas will decide in their next legislative session whether to move forward with a Department of Public Safety pilot project to test digital versions of driver's licenses and identification cards.
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In addition to the fleet of 21 full-sized street sweepers, a smaller electric version will work within the city’s six miles of protected bike lanes.
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After the deal to purchase all-electric buses for the city’s transit fleet ran into equipment malfunctions, manufacturer Build Your Dreams is saying poor staff training was behind the incidents.
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Soofa was one of two winners for Miami-Dade County, Fla.'s challenge in Ford's City of Tomorrow program. Now it will set up its informational displays in different areas of the city for transportation purposes.
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Despite being saturated with alternative transportation methods, Uber believes the city is full of potential. The company announced Monday that it would be rolling out a fleet of electric bikes.
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More than 900 pages of emails paint a clearer picture of the shortcomings of the city’s effort to roll out a bike-share program that would eventually be replaced by a Bird and Lime scooter pilot.
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Sharee, the first bike-share to operate in Honolulu sans a dock, is moving deliberately into the city. Other jurisdictions have struggled to control loose bikes and scooters in the public right of way.
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The number of traffic-related fatalities nearly doubled between 2016 and 2017, through officials say 2018 appears to be trending down with only 11 fatalities logged on county roadways as of Oct. 31.
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