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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 StaffJune 28, 2016

Secretive Alphabet unit aims to fix U.S. public transit

Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet (Google's parent co.), is initially offering its cloud software, called Flow, to Columbus, Ohio, the winner of a recent $50 million Smart City Challenge.

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Newsby StaffJune 28, 2016

Transdev expands autonomous passenger shuttle pilot programs

In the U.S., pilot programs featuring Trandev’s AV turnkey solution are in development in campus environments and other selected communities.

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Newsby StaffJune 27, 2016

LAVTA testing driverless vehicles, partners with Uber, Lyft

Plan is intended to reach commuters in neighborhoods big buses cannot serve and solve first and last mile issues to connect people to stations.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2016

Columbus, Ohio wins Smart City Challenge

The U.S. DOT also announced that it will collaborate with government and private sector partners to help all seven finalist cities in the Smart City Challenge move forward with ideas that each city developed over the past six months.

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Newsby StaffJune 23, 2016

Major associations call for fingerprinting of drivers

National Limousine Association and the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association want all drivers who transport passengers for a fee to be subject to national fingerprint-based background checks.

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Newsby StaffJune 21, 2016

Survey finds Virginians favor public transportation investment

The survey also suggests that if there were more transit service, more people would use it, with just around 50% of those surveyed said they would be more likely to use public transit more often if either it was available closer to where they live, or if it operated more frequently.

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Newsby StaffJune 20, 2016

U of Mich. study: Most Americans hesitant toward driverless vehicles

About 46% stated that they would prefer a vehicle with no self-driving capability, while nearly 39% said that they would prefer a partially self-driving vehicle and just under 16% said they would prefer a completely self-driving vehicle.

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Newsby StaffJune 17, 2016

Self-driving vehicle integrating IBM Watson tech debuts

The electric vehicle, dubbed "Olli," which can carry up to 12 people, will be used on public roads in Washington, D.C., and late in 2016 in Miami-Dade County and Las Vegas.

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ArticlesJune 17, 2016

Contractors Changing the Public Transit Model with Tech Integration

As more agencies shift from a traditional bus-only model to a multimodal system to cut costs and expand services, contractorsare helping them adapt and grow with these new changes.

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Newsby StaffJune 16, 2016

Uber, Fla.'s PSTA to pilot phone dispatch system

The call-in feature is part of a local program with PSTA that will grant publicly-subsidized Uber rides to low-income residents who do not have cars or easy access to the area’s bus-based public transit system.

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