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.
The Regional Transportation District has installed a “live look-in system” on all buses, letting police dispatchers see and hear people, situations and events onboard in real-time. The move, which began last year, is aimed at increasing safety.
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.
