Transportation: Page 3

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    2025’s top smart city conferences

    Smart city technology, housing, climate action, road safety and more will take center stage at events already announced for next year.

    By , • Oct. 1, 2024
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    Now is the time to ‘lean into’ decarbonizing transportation sector: Biden climate advisor

    Reducing transportation emissions represents a “massive public health opportunity,” Ali Zaidi, a national climate policy advisor for the Biden administration, said at Climate Week NYC.

    By Lamar Johnson • Sept. 30, 2024
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from Smart Cities Dive

    From worsening climate change to a shifting transportation landscape and the housing affordability crisis, cities have their work cut out for them.

    By Smart Cities Dive staff
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    Q&A

    This former Olympian is bringing a 43-mile trail to life in Virginia

    Jon Lugbill, ardent trail user and executive director of a nonprofit that encourages active living, tells how the Fall Line Trail came to be and what it means for the communities it reaches.

    By • Sept. 30, 2024
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    FMCSA’s grant award season: Millions allocated to improve highway safety

    Learn about federal grant opportunities and how your organization can apply.

    Sept. 30, 2024
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    Customer satisfaction with public EV charging is improving: JD Power

    Electric vehicle owners are particularly satisfied with the speed of public fast chargers. But public charging infrastructure isn’t keeping up with the number of EVs in service, a J.D. Power executive said.

    By Kalena Thomhave • Sept. 27, 2024
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    Up to $100K per city available for asphalt art in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ latest grantmaking

    This marks the first round of funding offered since the U.S. Department of Transportation incorporated asphalt art into federal road design guidelines for the first time.

    By • Sept. 26, 2024
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    How New York’s congestion pricing plan went from admiration to desperation

    The tolling plan was once seen as a solution to fund new trains and buses and keep the system in good repair. Gov. Kathy Hochul's order to halt it leaves the transit agency waiting for a miracle.

    By • Sept. 26, 2024
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    ‘Road safety crisis’ requires US DOT action: TRB report

    The report lays out five recommendations the Transportation Research Board says can be sustained over the years.

    By • Sept. 25, 2024
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    Lyft tackles rideshare drivers’ EV range anxiety

    Smartcar’s technology will ensure electric vehicle drivers only receive ride requests in their current battery range, Lyft says.

    By Benton Graham • Sept. 25, 2024
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    Connected vehicle tech could help nationwide e-tolling, officials say

    Public and industry leaders have long noted obstacles in regional wireless transponder networks and a goal to achieve more seamless travel.

    By David Taube • Sept. 25, 2024
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    18 startups tested innovative tech in New York’s transportation systems. Here are the results.

    Better curb management, transit resiliency and transit user experience were among the goals of the Transit Tech Lab experiments.

    By • Sept. 24, 2024
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    NY transit agency proposes next $68B capital plan even as its current plan is in doubt

    Despite the congestion pricing plan's pause leaving a multi-billion-dollar hole in its budget, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans a record investment in buses, subways and rail cars.

    By • Sept. 23, 2024
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    Smart Cities: the key to unlocking a traffic-free future

    With more people living in urban centers, we must reimagine our cities and how we move around them.

    Sept. 23, 2024
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    Biden administration proposes expanding tax credits for EV charger installations

    The proposed rule would expand on January guidance from the Treasury Department, allowing the tax credit to be accessed per individual charging port installed.

    By Robert Walton • Sept. 20, 2024
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    How one city plans to reconnect a historically Black neighborhood split by a 1950s interstate

    New Rochelle, New York, is one of more than 130 projects using funds allocated this year from the Reconnecting Communities Pilot program. 

    By • Sept. 20, 2024
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    Traffic congestion is worse now than before the pandemic: Streetlight Data report

    Despite remote or hybrid work and empty offices, people are driving more. "The status quo isn’t working,” the report says.

    By • Sept. 19, 2024
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    GM, EVgo plan 400 EV charging stations in US metro areas

    Most flagship stations are expected to feature up to 20 stalls, but some select sites will offer significantly more chargers. 

    By Eric Walz • Sept. 18, 2024
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    New LA Metro light rail line gets $893M

    The 6.7-mile line will restore train service to the East San Fernando Valley, a diverse community where one in five households don’t own a car.

    By • Sept. 18, 2024
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    NY transit agency ‘must find billions’ for capital projects while congestion pricing is paused, state comptroller says

    An Oct. 1 deadline looms for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's next five-year capital investment plan, but funding remains in question.

    By • Sept. 17, 2024
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    Uber and Waymo to bring robotaxis to Atlanta and Austin, Texas

    The announcement is part of Uber's larger effort to partner with autonomous vehicle and technology companies.

    By • Sept. 16, 2024
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    California poised to require new cars to warn speeding drivers

    Legislation requiring vehicles to give an audible and visual warning when drivers go more than 10 mph above the speed limit could become the nation’s first.

    By • Sept. 12, 2024
  • An Amtrak train at a train station with a sign reading "Manassas" and a crowd of people on the station platform.
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    More intercity passenger rail coming to Virginia

    The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority signed an agreement with freight railroad Norfolk Southern that will expand commuter service in Northern Virginia and extend Amtrak service south of Roanoke, Virginia.

    By • Sept. 11, 2024
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    Pedestrian deaths from SUV, pickup truck crashes are the focus for proposed federal rule

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to require new vehicles be designed to reduce the risk of serious and fatal injuries to children and adults in pedestrian collisions.

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
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    Sponsored by VEIC

    The case for EVs is much more than environmental

    Clean transportation experts at VEIC say to highlight these benefits instead.

    Sept. 9, 2024
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    Here’s how US intercity bus lines are doing in 2024

    While one company CEO sees “robust growth,” another major operator declared bankruptcy, and states entered the picture to provide more bus service.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024