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 transportation bill signed by Gov. Rick Scott earlier this month explicitly allows riderless cars to hit public roads for research.
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The Federal Highway Administration is calling on state and local transportation agencies to work together on a new data-reporting initiative.
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Although the Research and Development Center may not be as transparent about its operations as others in the autonomous vehicle industry, director John Bares is pleased with the progress being made.
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Under the $150 million system, riders would have been able to pay fares simply by waving their smartphones or credit cards.
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Two Michigan drivers filed a lawsuit claiming that Uber misleads passengers by telling them that the fare includes a tip, when that tip doesn't actually get passed onto the driver; it is kept by the company.
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The city's transportation authority has built an open source trip planning app that can be used by transit riders and cyclists.
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Partnering with Waze has benefits for the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, as the company plans to share its incident response data with the transit authority to help officials better understand traffic patterns.
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David Block-Schachter, chief technology officer for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, indicated that the T is shifting its on-time metric to focus on the percentage of riders who are on time, rather than percentage of trains.
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Karamba Security has raised $2.5 million from private equity firms to develop software it says can prevent hackers from ever infiltrating a car's computers.
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Business has increased for Uber and Lyft since the launch of their Chicago airport pick-up services in November, but cabbies say it’s hurting their bottom line.
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As more people are living downtown rather than in suburbs, there's one trend that's overlooked: the reverse commute.
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Recent streetcar stumbles in Atlanta and Houston may offer lessons for cities.
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If the bill is signed into law, convicts with a single DUI offense would need to keep a device installed in their car for six months that requires a driver to take a breathalyzer test before the car will turn on.
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More than 32,000 bikes are in use in sharing programs across about 80 U.S. cities, but most depend on outside funds to keep rolling.
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Some opponents to driverless cars say they'll be a public-transit killer, but others argue that transit will always have a place in dense cities.
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Ride-sharing and car-sharing are complicating life for transportation planners, not to mention automakers.
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The report determined that the people who depend most heavily on shared modes of transportation — such as ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft — are also more likely to rely on public transit.
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Transit agencies have begun recording sound and video on buses in the name of safety and customer service — but critics say it represents another step in government spying on citizens.
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