Transportation
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The money is a bet that more airports and cities will use the company’s computer vision technology to help manage increasingly busy curbside spaces. Automotus traces its roots to two college buddies in Los Angeles. -
Michigan Central in Detroit is quickly becoming a center for air and ground mobility innovation. The state Advanced Air Mobility Initiative, announced in July, aims to stimulate drone development.
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Lorain County Transit has received a $2.7 million federal grant to expand its Via Lorain County microtransit service. The offering uses intelligent algorithms to serve riders more efficiently.
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Clean energy and transportation goals could get a boost from the charged atmosphere around preparation for the next Olympics, in Los Angeles. Advocates say much remains to be done to electrify vehicles and infrastructure.
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A one-of-a-kind laboratory has opened in Eastern Washington, bringing together some of the world's most respected researchers to work toward a speedy solution to large-scale energy storage issues.
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Research from CivicPulse shows many of the 1,219 U.S. counties with no public electric vehicle charging infrastructure are mostly rural with fewer than 25,000 residents. But more populous counties, too, lack chargers.
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People took a record 157 million trips on shared bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters in 2023, the National Association of City Transportation Officials said in its recently completed survey of urban micromobility trends.
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The EV market is in turmoil and its future is uncertain as consumer demand for electric vehicles is lagging the sales goals, and the automakers are pulling back investment in their production.
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The Beta District’s new executive director lays out the nascent Central Ohio ecosystem’s vision for growth in areas like mobility and agriculture. The sectors, he said, “are definitely tied together.”
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The North Central Texas Council of Governments Regional Transportation Council approved $1.6 million to fund moving the proposed route into the federal review process.
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The West Virginia DOT wants to choose one vendor to build and maintain the first phase of the state’s charging stations, funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Biden.
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system cut service to many East Bay and South Bay stations for a time Thursday morning. Trains on its Orange and Green lines were being turned back at the Bay Fair station.
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The money, delivered Wednesday by a Congressional representative, comes amid struggles at an electric school bus factory, from complications with a federal subsidy rollout. It will go toward five zero-emission buses in Calumet City.
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The devices will go in this week along O Street, on traffic signal arms and streetlight poles, to gather information for a study. It’s part of a pilot aimed at potentially creating new pickup and drop-off spots, and higher parking turnover.
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The new 2023 Shared Micromobility State of the Industry Report finds slightly more people made use of it in the U.S. last year — even as the number of devices in service fell by more than 3.5 percent.
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Lower EV values — combined with higher government incentives — could open the opportunity to a wider demographic of buyers to try EVs as manufacturers work to meet government sales mandates.
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The Texas capital received a nearly $48 million federal grant, to help develop programs to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Encouraging sustainable transportation choices during major highway builds may be a side benefit.
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The Georgia Department of Transportation and Cambridge Mobile Telematics have announced the launch of Reach Home Safely, a safe driving app to improve road safety and prevent crashes.
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A poll of 600 likely voters in the November general election found more than half felt it important for the state to become the center of electric vehicle manufacturing — but only about one-quarter would consider buying an EV.
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A new report on micromobility ridership in 2023 from the National Association of City Transportation Officials examines trends in the use of shared bikes and scooters, in the U.S. and Canada.
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Acadia National Park had no electric bicycles on its carriage roads as recently as five years ago. Today, that’s a different story. Fully half of the bicycles rolling along its scenic roads today are e-bikes, officials said.
