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Newsby StaffJuly 18, 2016

Calif.'s SMART, area employers looking to fill first mile, last mile challenge

The employers, including Kaiser Permanente and the counties of Sonoma and Marin, are examining whether they can operate shuttles to help their workers get to their jobs as well as other options.

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Newsby StaffJuly 14, 2016

Columbus plans to 'leap-frog' light rail after Smart City win

Driverless cars are the marquee emblem of the city’s plans, but it will use and test other potential improvements to its bus fleet and on commercial vehicles.

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Newsby StaffJuly 12, 2016

Law would allow transit benefits to apply to Uber, Lyft

The measure would only allow the subsidy to apply to alternative options while Metro undergoes its massive maintenance plan, known as SafeTrack, which began last month and is scheduled to end in March.

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Newsby StaffJuly 11, 2016

Blind Institute of Technology, Uber team for Colorado job access initiative

Thanks to the agreement, a tap of the Uber app will help remove the employment barrier of getting to job interviews for blind and visually impaired BIT candidates in Colorado.

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Newsby StaffJuly 11, 2016

Transdev receives Foothill Transit contract renewal

This month, the company will also assume operational responsibility for three routes formerly operated by LA Metro that traverse Pomona Valley. The entire system transports annual ridership of 14 million customers.

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Newsby StaffJuly 7, 2016

San Diego MTS, Uber partner to increase access to transit

The move is in time for San Diego’s two world-class events in July – the MLB All-Star Game and Comic-Con International. Both events will attract hundreds of thousands of people and many will ride MTS services to avoid traffic and parking hassles downtown.

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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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