Transportation
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The Hawaii Department of Transportation has launched its Eyes on the Road project, which leverages dashcams in private and state-owned vehicles to gather vast amounts of information on roadway conditions. -
All e-bikes must be registered and insured, whether they are low-speed e-bikes that require pedaling and can't exceed 20 miles per hour, or they are motorized bicycles that reach 28 miles per hour.
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A Missouri bill would enable self-driving taxis but it would open roads to autonomous semitrucks, prompting pushback from commercial drivers. Supporters include disability rights advocates.
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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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After having arrived safely at a destination, there is the vague awareness that we don’t know how we got there. We can’t remember the landmarks along the way, and, without our handheld device, certainly couldn’t get back to our origin point.
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The Ohio pilot project, known as the Prenatal Trip Assistance program, will use a Web platform that will make it easier for pregnant women to request transportation for medical visits.
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TriMet, which manages public transit in Portland, Ore., is exploring a range of advancements so vehicles can operate more efficiently and cut through congestion.
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With new funding from Hyperplane Venture Capital and other urban-tech investors, the Pittsburgh-based company plans to diversify and cover more territory.
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Bird, Lime and Skip are asking officials to let them stick around past the close of a four-month trial period, but the city seems to be holding firmly against the idea.
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The arrangement for 15 electric buses slated for the city’s transit fleet is being cancelled after staff cited brake failures and other equipment malfunctions during training and testing, according to Mayor Tim Keller.
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All new sedans the county buys will be electric starting in 2020, all new SUVs will be electric by 2025, and all new pickup trucks will be electric by 2030. It's also going to push other government agencies to convert.
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The online collection of case studies, strategies and other information will provide cities with insight into how Columbus is making public transit safer and easier to use.
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Motion sickness is caused by a conflict between the signals from our different senses. When the signals do not match then we are more likely to develop motion sickness.
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Just weeks after dropping a long-running legal battle against the city of Seattle over ridership data, the companies have locked horns with the Port of Seattle over data about trips to and from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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The Central Ohio Transit Authority is leading an effort to develop "smart mobility hubs," complete with interactive kiosks, at four locations in Columbus, Ohio.
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The on-demand scooter company is facing stiff impound fees from cities that were fed up with its deploy-now-and-ask-permission-later approach.
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Scooter- and bike-share operators Lime and Spin form an agreement with transportation technology company Remix to share loads of real-time data with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.
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