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Newsby StaffMarch 14, 2019

DART, Uber team for new transportation offering

One-year pilot program to provide North Texas riders greater flexibility and more options for their transportation needs.

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Newsby StaffMarch 13, 2019

Siemens forms new Digital Lab for ITS in Austin

The lab will monitor, collect, and analyze data to further study and develop important digital urban mobility technologies.

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Newsby StaffMarch 13, 2019

New app to help people with disabilities navigate public transit

Using the "Connect" app enables users to gain three-meter accuracy to pick-up or drop off locations for fixed and paratransit service.

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Newsby StaffMarch 11, 2019

Lyft, Denver RTD launch one-stop transportation app

Riders will now be able to find the closest RTD bus and rail connections, as well as Lyft Scooters and shared-rides using Nearby Transit.

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Newsby StaffMarch 7, 2019

Underground people mover proposed to link Las Vegas conventions

The Boring Co. was recommended to design, construct and operate a people mover via a loop of underground express-route tunnels.

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Newsby StaffMarch 7, 2019

Waymo to sell lidar sensors to lower cost of self-driving vehicles

The Laser Bear Honeycomb is a perimeter sensor, which Waymo says is the same sensor around the bumper of self-driving vehicles.

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Newsby StaffMarch 5, 2019

Volvo unveils world's first full-size autonomous electric bus

Plans are in place to test the 40-foot bus on Singapore's Nanyang Technological University campus and to extend the route off campus.

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Newsby StaffMarch 4, 2019

Local Motors debuts autonomous shuttle on California campus

Sacramento State competed in and won an Olli fleet challenge for presenting a best-use scenario for the eight-person vehicle.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 28, 2019

NY MTA names tech co. finalists tapped to improve transit services

At the end of an eight-week Transit Tech Lab, the MTA can decide to move forward with a one-year pilot of those technologies.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 26, 2019

Transit adds offline capabilities to mobile app

Using a unique data compression method, Transit has reduced the size of this information from hundreds of megabytes to as small as a few hundred kilobytes.

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