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The Bay Area Rapid Transit system cut service to many East Bay and South Bay stations for a time Thursday morning. Trains on its Orange and Green lines were being turned back at the Bay Fair station.
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The Texas capital received a nearly $48 million federal grant, to help develop programs to reduce traffic congestion and pollution. Encouraging sustainable transportation choices during major highway builds may be a side benefit.
The Georgia Department of Transportation and Cambridge Mobile Telematics have announced the launch of Reach Home Safely, a safe driving app to improve road safety and prevent crashes.
A poll of 600 likely voters in the November general election found more than half felt it important for the state to become the center of electric vehicle manufacturing — but only about one-quarter would consider buying an EV.
A new report on micromobility ridership in 2023 from the National Association of City Transportation Officials examines trends in the use of shared bikes and scooters, in the U.S. and Canada.
Acadia National Park had no electric bicycles on its carriage roads as recently as five years ago. Today, that’s a different story. Fully half of the bicycles rolling along its scenic roads today are e-bikes, officials said.
East Lansing-based ADASTEC will bring the vehicle to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore within the week, then program and test it with a safety driver. Lakeshore tours on the bus will be available starting in mid-August.
The hub’s 37 projects will center on long-haul trucking, heavy cargo shipping, power generation and aviation. The state was chosen as a national hub by the U.S. Department of Energy. A $1.2 billion contract formalized that this month.
Tulsa Innovation Labs has received a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant to develop an innovation hub that will look at ramping up advanced manufacturing for autonomous systems, from agriculture to transportation.
The technology has been used since 2021 at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to check arriving international passengers. The Transportation Security Administration is now using it at checkpoints for all departing passengers.
The South Pasadena Police Department is now comprised of 20 Tesla vehicles, a transition that is nearly complete. As electrifying fleets rises in popularity, the force is among the first in the nation to go all electric.
The successful deployment of an online parking reservation system in June at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has revealed high demand for spaces. An expansion is likely in coming months.
Council members in the Washington county voted to adopt what’s known as the Safe Systems Approach, in a move to lower transportation fatalities. Technological aids like cameras and speed governors on official vehicles could follow.
GreenWealth Energy and Voltpost will expand low-speed, dwell charging at multifamily housing locations and curbside, to make electric vehicles a more workable solution for renters and people with lower incomes.
On an empty site where a motor home factory previously stood, Georgia bus maker Blue Bird is now building a 600,000-square-foot, 400-worker factory to produce electric school buses.
More than 60 percent of drivers would find it acceptable if vehicles gave an audible and visual warning when they exceeded the posted speed limit, according to a new survey from a highway safety group.
