Transportation
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The CEO of CHAMP Titles — which recently raised $55 million — talks about where the industry is headed. His optimism about upcoming significant growth is matched by another executive from this field. -
The city’s tourist-heavy Oceanfront neighborhood is using a digital parking solution from eleven-x to improve parking management and grow revenue in its “resort area.” Area residents will get parking credits.
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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.
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The improved, user-friendly platform provides travelers access to reliable, up-to-date information regarding traffic conditions, construction activity, and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s response to weather-related events.
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The Bay Area’s dominant rail systems — BART and Caltrain — are bursting at the seams as ridership is rapidly overwhelming the services. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is in the midst of a major rail system expansion.
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On expert envisions automated vehicles carrying people of all ages and backgrounds to their destinations with the tap of a smartphone app.
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Plans calls for Muni Metro to tie into the BART system about 12 to 18 months after a deal can be negotiated with the carriers.
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Ground is expected to be broken early next year for the first of up to seven buildings for a new aviation and technology center
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To ensure travel happens without incident, state and local lawmakers must embrace technologies designed with safety in mind.
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Sacramento will be among 16 select cites meeting next month to discuss ways to harness new technologies, including autonomous vehicles, as part of a new national study effort called the Smart Cities Collaborative.
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The majority of the funding will be spent to procure and install a ground-based sense-and-avoid system at the airport, allowing operators to provide safe separation between drones and other aircraft in the airspace.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking an open approach in its outline to help protect against cyberattacks because the staff and engineers who develop new cars and trucks are learning as they go.
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While autonomous vehicles are the ultimate destination for cars’ transformation, there will be plenty of waypoints along the road — and interim ways for drivers to benefit from new technologies.
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Over time, the airline would like to create two data centers, or two network brain centers, so if one falters the other can kick in automatically.
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Boston recently announced a partnership with the World Economic Forum to test and deploy self-driving cars, and said at the time they could be on Boston streets before the end of the year.
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The City Council in April adopted a resolution supporting driverless vehicles for public transit, and the planning and IT departments are actively developing a strategy to make it happen.
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The hardware gives the cars enhanced vision and 40 times the processing power of existing vehicles.
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Several council members expressed reservations about accepting the grant because it required the city to contribute a 50 percent match.
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The program has been redirected at building self-driving programs that can be sold to existing carmakers as an Apple add-on.
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Researchers at the University of Washington are compiling data on the system to help determine whether it is “as effective as claimed."
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The network would replace the turnpike’s microwave-radio system, whose capacity to carry data from toll plazas, camera systems and road sensors to centralized computers will eventually reach its limit.
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