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 North Carolina DOT has agreed to purchase and install pre-emptive equipment for fire and EMS vehicles to take control of operating specific signals in Lenoir County, N.C.
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More than $7.1 million in federal grants will be given to “cutting edge safety improvement projects” in eight states and National Park territory.
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Sen. Daniel Hall debuted a website that allows people to call attention to a specific road issue after receiving hundreds of complaints from constituents via social media, email and phone calls.
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The new document verification system enhances DMV workers’ ability to verify documents.
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Whichever company can draw the best digital atlas, update it at lightning speeds and control who can use it has an edge on future industries from robot taxi and package delivery fleets to personalized shopping apps.
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Officers posing as construction workers were dispatched to spot and ticket those texting from the driver's seat.
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Six Los Angeles City Council members say they want to re-examine new rules that would allow Uber and Lyft to pick up passengers at Los Angeles International Airport.
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The Florida Department of Transportation has funded research on autonomous waterborne vehicles that could make bridge inspections faster, safer and more efficient.
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The new ParkDetroit system is made easier with the download of the ParkDetroit smartphone app.
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What's happening in California, where Uber faces two serious regulatory challenges, is a learning tool for political actors and movements nationwide.
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Cost, cybersecurity and privacy protection are just some of the unsolved challenges that stand between the technologies' potential and reality.
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Electronic toll systems are credited with enhanced driver safety and traffic flow.
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New options like online scheduling, renewals, and digital licenses will bring closure of some rural field offices.
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San Francisco has some of the most progressive environmental policies in the country, and it has a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2025.
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The proposal pitted Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is backed by the yellow-taxi industry, against Uber, which has grown to include 19,000 vehicles and is expanding about 3 percent per month.
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The director of Google’s self-driving cars says the cars have confronted a variety of scenes on surface streets around the company’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
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By hiring a former Chrysler exec, Apple gains an industry veteran who has intimate knowledge about how automakers operate and make cars.
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Highway agencies are increasingly using humor and wit to try to get people to drive safer.
