Transportation

IoT network streamlines state DOT traffic monitoring

With a cloud-based network management platform and cellular routers, the Indiana Transportation Department can easily monitor its statewide network of internet-of-things devices.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

State turns to the cloud to manage transportation projects

The Delaware Department of Transportation will track $3 billion in spending over the next five years with a cloud-based capital program management solution.

  • By Chris Teale

Engagement, access, equity drive city’s evolution

Waterloo, Iowa, has 12 smart city projects lined up based on four pillars: e-government, sustainability, transportation and public safety.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Smarter local airports via digital twins

Digital twins can help airport planners effectively manage future renovation projects, monitor daily operations and visualize future scenarios.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

City pilots sensors that track street activity, detect conflicts

The devices will collect data on road users’ speed, turning movements and modes and paths of travel to inform safety initiatives and city planning.

  • By Kaitlyn Levinson

Urban-rural collaborations help eliminate transit deserts and improve mobility equity

COMMENTARY | An innovative partnership gives residents of northwest Washington state a single fare-payment option they can use on public transit to cross county lines for work, medical appointments or leisure.

  • By Brad Windler

Transit agency’s cloud-based customer service boosts efficiency, visibility

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new system better manages passenger feedback, giving MTA more insight into its riders’ needs.

  • By Chris Teale

DOT awards $94 million for innovative transportation tech

The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grants Program made 59 awards for demonstration projects leveraging automation, connected vehicles, sensors and drones as well as smart grid and intelligent traffic signal technologies.

  • By Susan Miller

Here’s what’s in Biden’s budget plan for state and local governments

The administration, among other things, wants to dramatically increase funding for housing and restore the child tax credit.

  • By Kery Murakami

Connected vehicle data can improve traffic safety

Information gathered from vehicle sensors can efficiently inform decisions about road safety strategies.

  • By Chris Teale

‘Ghost buses’ haunt transit agencies and frustrate riders

Transit agencies should release canceled or delayed bus data to the public to avoid unhappy travelers, experts say.

  • By Jenni Bergal, Stateline

Data service tracks, analyzes electric vehicle travel

StreetLight Data’s EV Mode gives mobility planners detailed data that can help them efficiently build out EV infrastructure.

  • By Susan Miller

In northern Minnesota, autonomous vehicles are hitting rural roads

As Grand Rapids becomes the first rural community in the nation to pilot an autonomous shuttle service, it’s a trial by snow and ice rather than fire.

  • By H. Jiahong Pan, The Daily Yonder

Real-time tracking now available for some city school buses

New York City’s efforts to modernize school transportation have been dogged by delays — like its buses — but this new effort will allow parents and schools to monitor them.

  • By Chris Teale
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States test an electrifying idea: Roads that can recharge your EV

A few states are testing induction road-charging networks to power electric vehicles as they're driving using coils embedded in the pavement.

  • By Jenni Bergal, Stateline

How data sharing revs up mobility decisions

What’s the expected usage for rural EV charging stations? A new data platform lets transportation managers predict energy savings for mobility programs from shared program data.

  • By Susan Miller

Michigan test drives country’s first mobility officer

Trevor Pawl hopes transformations in the automotive industry will also help state government replace “Depression Era departmental structures” with more nimble organizations.

  • By Daniel C. Vock

Transportation Department looks to AI to help modernize highways

The Department of Transportation is soliciting applicants to integrate artificial intelligence and environmental analytics into highway infrastructure.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Testing out new transportation options in the nation’s capital

Washington, D.C. officials are hoping a “mobility innovation district” will help address equity concerns.

  • By Molly Bolan

How cities are deciding where electric vehicle chargers should go

Places where street parking is the norm and residential driveways are rare face unique challenges when it comes to making sure drivers can plug in their cars.

  • By Daniel C. Vock

Intelligent transportation management alleviates congestion

Rather than expanding highways in response to traffic congestion, communities can more efficiently manage their roadways with integrated insights from partner agencies, automated vehicles and navigation systems.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz