Transportation
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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.
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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.
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The U.S. departments of transportation and energy have issued guidance to states as the government takes on the ambitious goal of building out a national electric vehicle charging network in the next five years.
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Elon Musk’s decision to move Tesla headquarters to Austin, Texas, may be the first sign that Silicon Valley will lose its monopoly on the big tech industry. Rising costs in California could be the main factor.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a pilot that will make three Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus routes free starting next month. The city is using federal relief dollars to fund the pilot.
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Ford Motor Co. this week began shipping its new all-electric E-Transit cargo van from its Kansas City assembly plant in Missouri to customers located across the U.S., the automaker said Tuesday.
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Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., is partnering with a number of companies to deploy autonomous technology in its operations. The controlled nature of the environment makes it ideal to test this tech.
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Ford Motor Co.'s vision for the campus it's anchoring around the former Michigan Central Depot continues to take shape, with tech giant Google announcing it has signed on to be part of the developing mobility district.
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Intel plans to build two gigantic semiconductor production facilities near Columbus, Ohio. The project is expected to create 3,000 jobs and could be even bigger than planned, according to Lt. Gov. Jon Husted.
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Top officials from the U.S. departments of Energy and Transportation outlined some of the strategy behind deploying 500,000 public charging ports for electric vehicles at the National EV Charging Summit last month.
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As the federal government tries to force automakers to make EVs over the next decade, that truck strategy is diverging even further as a divide has opened between offering hybrids and battery-powered EVs.
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Under Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence’s bill, a $50 million program in the Department of Transportation would distribute grants of up to $5 million for static or dynamic electric vehicle charging projects.
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Across the country, legislatures in blue and red states are considering bills to bolster charging infrastructure, expand consumer incentives, electrify state fleets or mandate charging stations in new buildings.
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The city is eyeing smartphone technology that would alert drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists about speeders and other traffic hazards as part of an effort to reduce the threat posed by dangerous corridors.
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The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority observed another decline in fixed-route bus ridership in 2021. To survive the future, the agency may have to rethink how it utilizes resources and meets customer demand.
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The Curb Data Specification was developed among dozens of leaders from tech, transit, transportation, delivery and other areas to establish a set of common specifications to guide deployment and operation of digital curb management systems.
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Not everyone is seeing eye to eye with President Joe Biden and his team's plan to implement the infrastructure law. Getting the most out of the law will require continued level-headed conversation.
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More than $12 million has been added to the state’s Drive Clean Rebate program to help consumers save up to $2,000 on the purchase of an EV and $2.7 million has been awarded to local government efforts to embrace EVs.
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After years of running on diesel, four electric buses hit the streets last week, an effort from the city to continue making progress in line with its Climate Action Plan and goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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States are grappling with how they will continue to collect money for building and repairing roads once Americans stop going to the gas pump. Kansas is weighing its options carefully.
