Transportation
-
The newest Transit Tech Lab competition focuses on such areas as data modernization, infrastructure management and workflows. Finalists have a chance to work with city officials and enter procurement. -
The robotaxi maker has been testing its newest vehicle on Texas streets since late December. Now, one of the cars has been spotted on a highway at night, which obscured any view of a driver.
-
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.
More Stories
-
Electric vehicles are a central part of President Joe Biden’s plans to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, thereby reducing air pollution and combating climate change.
-
Efforts to electrify Raleigh-Durham International Airport’s fleet of buses have hit some turbulence with the bankruptcy of California-based bus manufacturer Proterra. The company’s assembly lines have stopped with no clear restart date.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
