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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California's Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit authority plans for passenger service set to begin by the end of 2016.
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To support car sharing — and try to reduce car use — San Francisco is experimenting with reserving up to 900 on-street parking spaces sprinkled throughout the city for the exclusive use of car-sharing vehicles.
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The San Francisco startup gives travelers free parking near the airport and, instead of letting the car sit there idly, rents it to other travelers passing through.
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The utility described the $653.8 million effort as an important step toward reaching Gov. Jerry Brown’s goal of having 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the state’s roads by 2025.
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U.S. Senator Edward Markey issued a report raising concerns about the ability of hackers to remotely take control of cars or steal personal information from increasingly sophisticated IT systems.
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The department reviewed how well Lyft and Uber were complying with the terms of an agreement that gave them temporary rules until legislators could consider permanent regulations.
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With traffic congestion and roadway space at a premium, these apps hope to ease burdens on cities by getting drivers off the streets and into parking lots.
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Two proposed bills this session contain new regulations, but some on the state's Transportation Committee are awaiting a DOT-commissioned ride-sharing study before deciding the direction of possible new legislation.
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The study looked at whether particular technology-based tools are available, not at the performance of transportation services or transit agencies.
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While Uber has the lead in e-hailed rides, it's far too soon to say who might dominate -- but one expert notes that Google's brand recognition is significant and evokes trust.
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Transit agencies are finally catching up to the private sector’s use of social media to improve their systems and increase the public’s trust in them.
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Cities are trying to curb people’s driving habits, but most Americans aren’t ready to give up their cars.
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Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said the Department of Transportation has been working for more than a year on the blueprint to improve the nation's roads, rails, ports and air control towers.
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Uber said its technology leaders will work with CMU to develop “key long-term technologies that advance Uber's mission of bringing safe, reliable transportation to everyone, everywhere.”
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New legal discussions on the ride-booking industry's business model could complicate things for companies like Uber and Lyft.
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In a speech Thursday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel attempted to make the case that he has stanched the deterioration of Chicago's infrastructure by prioritizing long-neglected improvements to city streets and public transportation.
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Two German automakers have teamed with ChargePoint to install networks of high-speed chargers along two interstate corridors.
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San Francisco insurer Metromile Inc. is offering a new personal insurance product to Uber drivers to cover the miles they drive on their own time or waiting to be hooked up with a paying passenger.
