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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Thanks to the way the deal to operate the Indiana Toll Road was structured, the state treasury and the road's users don't have anything to worry about.
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Concrete that automatically mends would mean streets and structures repair their own cracks, facilitating longer-lasting infrastructure that spares public-sector budgets from upkeep costs.
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If the rail authority’s board gives the go-ahead in November or December, the agency could move forward with soliciting bids by the end of this year or early in 2015.
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Mercedes-Benz and the Contra Costa Transportation Authority are turning the Concord Naval Weapons Station property into the nation's largest secure testing site for self-driving vehicles.
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The counties' transportation planning organization announced Thursday that it has contracted with Transmap, a company that will collect data on local roadways using digital imagery and mapping.
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The Texas Central Railway (TCR) will connect the two cities in what the company calls the two fastest growing city regions in the country.
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With systemic problems to the nation’s transportation infrastructure and cities needing to do more with less, speakers at the 2014 CityLab event highlighted projects that are making a difference and ideas that may have a large impact.
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Caltrans in the last week discovered water -- a potential corrosive threat -- was sitting against more than 90 percent of the 424 anchor rods that tie the elegant new self-anchored suspension span to its foundation.
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Over the next year, at least half a dozen other Texas cities are likely to tackle the same thorny debate that's under way in Austin over how to regulate vehicle-for-hire apps like Uber and Lyft while maintaining traditional taxi services.
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Factoring in the lifetime cost of new construction is considered good practice in the transportation industry, but surprisingly few government agencies do it.
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The app’s failure hasn't prevented the city and local start-ups from taking other steps to make finding and paying for city parking spaces a lot easier.
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A new computer simulation foreshadows the future of urban road travel.
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Projects to test new transportation technology and infrastructure are needed, the mayor said, because "autonomous vehicles are going to be here."
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At the U.S. Conference of Mayors fall meeting, President and Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson said cities must embrace technology in order to move forward.
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The authors of working paper Removing Roadblocks to Intelligent Vehicles and Driverless Cars argue that state policies should facilitate “permissionless innovation” as much as possible.
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Cities are serving as bellwethers of society's carbon emission trends. While many are experiencing growth in emissions, others are leading the charge to reduce them.
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The two district attorney offices conducted a joint investigation into the ride-share companies and found a number of practices that violate California law.
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Workers began construction Tuesday on a state-of-the-art facility that will include an electrified track, a quarter-mile long oval, that will demonstrate the effectiveness of wireless power charging.
