Transportation
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A freight ferry and two cargo bikes were part of a project to show how fresh seafood and other freight can move through New York City without traveling on a delivery truck through city streets. -
Having notched early success in piloting generative AI, leaders at the California Department of Transportation are realizing the need for a comprehensive approach to a massive storehouse of data.
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With new EV sales in the United States recently reporting a year-over-year decline, advocates said factors like their long-term affordability should have been emphasized and infrastructure should be accessible.
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Removal of snow is among the most important tasks of state and local governments. Newer mapping and other tools are helping officials better deploy plows even as public works departments face severe staffing shortages.
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Transportation officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are working on a plan to use Glydcars — small, electric and autonomous vehicles — to make last-mile connections to more traditional forms of transit.
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A new computer simulation is helping NASA and Joby Aviation better understand how air taxis and other electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles can fly at the country's busiest airports.
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Dallas-based jet carrier JSX has placed orders for up to 300 hybrid-electric aircraft that can carry up to 30 passengers. The orders were placed with three manufacturers: Electra, Aura Aero and Heart Aerospace.
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The state has finished spending the funds it received from the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, using the money to boost the number of EV chargers and electric, heavy-duty vehicles.
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Sioux Falls has selected a transit provider to operate its transportation service. The move promises to bring new innovations and efficiencies for transit users in South Dakota’s largest city.
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While some cities and companies are recoiling from the risks posed by autonomous driving technology, Arlington is picking up some of the slack with its own program in the downtown area.
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Experts urge a “just transition” away from fossil fuels as communities across the U.S. plan for clean energy futures that, just as essentially, leave no one behind.
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Autonomous vehicles, which can drive themselves at least part of the time, are making news in urban areas, such as San Francisco, where extensive tests of the technology are underway.
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Bus operators face a lot of challenges on the clock, but they say technology shouldn’t be one of them. From the reliability of newer electric buses to employee monitoring software, drivers weighed in on the demanding job.
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Fully independent vehicles remain far from everyday options, as tech companies and automakers struggle to perfect the technology. Advocates believe the technology could one day be safer than riding with human drivers.
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Before Tesla's recall of more than 2 million vehicles for a software update related to Autopilot, more than 100 Tesla accidents in the Bay Area had drawn attention from federal investigators.
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An audit for the year ending June 30 by a Charleston-based accounting firm found that an agency within the Department of Transportation was risking unauthorized access to critical information systems.
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New understandings related to parking, micromobility safety, intersection activity and more are being realized thanks to smart transportation technologies. Officials say the data they are able to collect opens the door to new innovations.
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Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm is leaving mid-January after a short 16 months on the job, throwing the agency into another search for a leader amid the nation's largest transit expansion program.
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As cities work to get more electric vehicles and micromobility options like e-bikes onto streets, they're also putting livability and equity at the center of how technology can improve the urban experience.
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Once the home of a juvenile detention center, a 25-acre site is now slated to house the California Mobility Center, which will be a center of innovation in the zero-emission transportation sector.
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A California-based electric aircraft developer Archer Aviation has started laying the groundwork for its operations in Georgia. The work hinges on a still uncertain future for the air taxi industry.
