The number of electric vehicles able to power buildings and feed the power grid will grow from 100,000 today, to more than 5 million in 2017, according to a new study by Pike Research, a market research firm for the clean technology industry. The prospect of a power grid made more stable and efficient by…
Dashboard consoles that warn of accident-prone intersections and suggest alternate routes. Cars that could wirelessly order and pay for a cup of coffee as you approach a drive through cafe. Vehicles that trade pollution credits so high-polluters cost more.
Those are some of the winners chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) for their Connected Vehicle Challenge …
(San Francisco – Casey Miner, KALW News) Starting this summer, San Francisco’s taxis will be among the most expensive in the nation – but officials are hoping they’ll also be the most used. The MTA, which has overseen city taxis since 2009, voted Tuesday to raise rates by 10 cents per fifth of a mile…
(San Francisco–Casey Miner, KALW News) San Francisco launched its real-time parking data feed Thursday morning at City Hall – and, fittingly, there was more than enough parking to go around. A strong start, as the city hopes the dynamic pricing pilot will ease congestion and generally improve people’s quality of life. People deciding whether to drive…
(San Francisco – Casey Miner, KALW News) The price may be steep, but the payoff is high: a dense city where no one ever has to circle for parking. On Thursday, San Francisco will officially launch SFpark, a dynamic pricing program that aims to ensure at least one free space on every block at any…
U.S. Reps. Mike Rogers, R-MI, and Russ Carnahan, D-MO, have introduced a new smart transportation technology bill (H.R. 995) into the House that would give six cities the opportunity to share in $1.2 billion dollars—as long as the money is used to fund innovative transportation technologies.
(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) New York, Chicago, Boston all made the cut. Los Angeles, not so much. The Natural Resources Defense Council released their top 15 “Smart Cities” for transportation Wednesday. The study compares metro regions according to public transit accessibility, cost, use as well as household auto habits. Innovations, like pedestrian plaza construction and…
(Houston — Wendy Siegle, KUHF) Houston is best known as the capital of Big Oil. But Mayor Annise Parker says alternative energy is on the way: She tells us: “We’re a sprawling city that’s built around the automobile. If we can convince Houstonians that electric vehicles are the way to go, then it…
(Matt Dellinger, Transportation Nation) – When the New York Times reported last month that Google was developing a car that could drive itself through traffic, Jon Kelly at the BBC wondered whether we could ever learn to love driverless cars. Kelly quoted “motoring journalist” Quentin Willson, who doubted the level of trust people would have in…
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