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MOIA America Teams with Beep to Grow US Footprint

Through the strategic partnership, MOIA America will provide MOIA’s turnkey autonomous mobility solution. This includes purpose-built, autonomous-ready ID. Buzz vehicles equipped with the self-driving system developed by Mobileye, as well as operator training and enablement.

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Newsby StaffAugust 9, 2016

TriMet extends First Transit paratransit contract

The contractor currently operates 268 vehicles for TriMet’s LIFT paratransit services and manages all scheduling and operations of the paratransit call center.

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Newsby StaffAugust 9, 2016

Calif.'s OCTA awards $19.5M to improve biking, walking

Funding through the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program was awarded to 13 projects that promote mobility options by increasing safety, provide regional linkages to key destinations, close bikeway corridor gaps and improve air quality across the county.

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Newsby StaffAugust 9, 2016

Chief tech officer for Google's self-driving car initiative resigns

Other senior engineers who have recently left the autonomous car initiative, include Jiajun Zhu, one of the founding members of the self-driving car team at Google, and Dave Ferguson, computer vision and machine learning lead for the initiative.

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Newsby StaffAugust 8, 2016

Rutgers makes $5M in parking tickets per year, report finds

On the New Brunswick campus, the school issues about 5.5 tickets per driver on average — a total of about 90,000, according to parking records from the last three years. From June 2014 to June 2015, the school brought in $4,907,220 from parking citations.

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Newsby StaffJuly 28, 2016

Metra seeks bid for official rideshare partner

Agency seeks marketing partner to address first mile/last mile challenges, while raising non-fare revenue.

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Newsby StaffJuly 25, 2016

Program helps families talk driving with seniors, suggest alternatives

The American Occupational Therapy Association’s plan helps families identify signs that older drivers may become unsafe and makes suggestions to help seniors maintain mobility, such as using paratransit services and reduced transit fare programs.

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Newsby StaffJuly 25, 2016

Autonomous vehicle expert joins MSU’s transportation division

Craig Shankwitz will lead the development of MSU's Western Transportation Institute research team that will explore and develop applications of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies to roads and transportation systems in rural areas and small cities, in both the public and private sector.

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Newsby StaffJuly 21, 2016

PSTA, Uber partner to offer disadvantaged residents free, on-demand rides

The $300,000 grant-funded pilot demonstration, awarded by the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, is aimed at helping low-income, unemployed residents overcome transportation barriers to employment.

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Newsby StaffJuly 21, 2016

Self-driving electric buses part of Tesla's future, CEO says

Elon Musk says that the electric buses of the future should be smaller than the current ones, to decrease traffic congestion, with the interior of the buses redesigned to increase passenger areal density.

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Newsby StaffJuly 21, 2016

DC Metro moves ahead with plan to use Uber, Lyft for paratransit services

Metro plans to issue an RFP to take over the service in September, with the intent to have the system in place by spring 2017. The pilot program will be for users in the Maryland suburbs, where two-thirds of MetroAccess customers live.

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