Transportation
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Toll road systems are modernizing with seamless payment portals and other forms of tech, enabling new options to make controlling congestion easy — and generate revenue other ways, as gas taxes decline. -
New York's mandates to have all new light-duty passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035 faces shortfalls in the state's battery charging infrastructure and the electrical grid needed to power it.
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The technology, which uses biometric facial recognition, is being used to screen U.S. citizens returning home on international flights to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, to make it easier to clear customs.
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A new study from the Mineta Transportation Institute outlines the symbiotic relationship between highway tolling and transit, and how each program needs the other. Transportation panelists examined the idea recently.
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Terawatt Infrastructure debuted a heavy-duty, high-speed truck charging location on the I-10 Consortium to electrify goods movement. It joins Greenlane, which recently opened its own large truck charging facility.
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SponsoredAfter years of advocating for legislative change, San Francisco has become the first California city to launch a speed safety program. This milestone comes at a critical time as traffic-related deaths in the city reached a troubling high of 41 fatalities in 2024 — the highest number of traffic deaths in almost two decades.
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Air traffic controllers guiding planes at Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute last week before flights were snarled for days, sources said.
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Autonomous vehicle technology has moved past the idea and testbed stage to meaningful deployments in cities across the country. The U.S. is a market leader in this area but policies must keep pace, industry observers said.
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Public- and private-sector officials gathered this week at the CoMotion Miami conference to air new visions for mobility, and how to get there. Reimagining requests for proposals was one idea considered.
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The Florida office at Midway Crossings will close Saturday and reopen Monday. Technology changes on the way include credit card machines at each checkout window and software to thwart appointment hoarding.
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The Niagara County, N.Y., municipality will receive at least eight license plate readers to install around town, something Police Chief Frank Previte said would be used to help solve crimes.
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In one month, AI-assisted cameras mounted on Los Angeles Metro buses generated nearly 10,000 citations for parking violations, according to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.
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The state Department of Transportation has revealed the future sites of 12 new electric vehicle charging stations on two interstates. It will make another $4.7 million in state funding available to support the projects.
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The center, operated by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, will be the central operations center for its growing fleet of autonomous transit vehicles. JTA will deploy 14 electric AV shuttles downtown by early summer.
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With the goal of further enforcement of speeding and reckless driving laws, a bill that was recently passed in Connecticut calls for a plan to expand speed safety cameras on state highways.
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Uber wants to become the go-to platform for operators of autonomous mobility services. Other companies like Waymo are becoming market leaders in their own way.
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At the annual Curbivore conference in Los Angeles, city transit and tech leaders discussed how to keep moving forward in a new environment of shifting political priorities coming from Washington.
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A transit network in Seattle has introduced technology to reduce “bus bunching” and space vehicles evenly on a route. And a suburban bus company in Chicago is taking steps to transition its fleet to zero-emission vehicles.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection will grant “enforcement discretion” to automakers that are unable to meet zero-emission vehicles requirements in the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation for 2025 and 2026 models.
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A partnership between Waymo and Uber launched last month brought the self-driving vehicles to the Texas capital. Data since shows Waymo accounting for 20 percent of all Uber trips in the city during the last week of March.
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The ride-share service and its mobile application, which are funded by a $2.1 million state grant, expanded in March 2024. Powered by transit software firm Via, the service has around 15 drivers.
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