Sweden’s first Mobility Hotel is now opening in Nordstan, one of Sweden’s largest shopping and business centres. The mobility hotel…
The transportation category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects that make driving, biking, or flying more accessible…
Imagine a future with nearly silent air taxis flying above traffic jams and navigating between skyscrapers and suburban droneports. Transportation arrives at…
To define the problem I first conducted my researches by interviewing 5 people that go through public transportation on a…
Green hydrogen is under the spotlight after Bill Gates backed a new production technology that could help the global push to…
Hardt Hyperloop will be the first to commence tests at the centre in Groningen Province but it is an open…
The Pandemic hit mass transit hard. From fears of getting sick on public transportation to the rise of remote work, most metro areas are still not back up to the ridership they had in the Before Times. Some transit agencies are experimenting with gamification to lure riders back.
While critics claim it’s an example of policymakers “chasing a shiny object,” backers believe hyperloop could become a mainstay of…
A 420-meter or quarter-mile white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in…
Last November, a small, white, oblong helicopter with four passenger seats and six whirring electric engines took off from the…
Maglev transport systems present an attractive option for the mobility mix. They’re quick and quiet, and are low maintenance. But…
Ireland is positioning itself at the forefront of urban air mobility, with plans to introduce the country’s first air taxi…
By running a low-weight, single-carriage train, it reduces wear and tear on the infrastructure and, therefore, operational costs. The demonstration…
Archer Aviation is one step closer to getting its electric air taxi certified to ferry people across cities at speeds…
The answer to easing car traffic in the greater Dallas area could come from above. The master-planned Legacy business area…
HyperloopTT is forming a joint venture with Webuild and Leonardo that could lead to the construction of the world’s first…
In 2017, the Montgomery County, MD County Council passed a resolution mandating a 100% reduction in the carbon emissions from county-owned transit and buildings by 2035. This was an expensive challenge, so the County’s Departments of General Services (DGS) and Transportation (DOT) had to get creative. The County partnered with private energy as service provider AlphaStruxure and a private equity firm to fund all upfront costs. Fleet costs are being subsidized by the federal government.
Alicia Winkelblech, Arlington’s director of transportation, is preparing for a new type of aircraft to fly over the city. The…
Amazon’s industrial innovation fund is evolving to include transportation technologies in its investment categories. The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, which…
The tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and…
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced the launch of the Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee (TTAC) to provide advice…
Brandon Branham, CTO in the City of Peachtree Corners, explains how connected vehicle technology is making the city’s transport ecosystem safer – even beyond…
The future of Berlin’s public transit could be trains that use magnetic-levitation propulsion technology, according to a plan launched this week.…
Public transportation, along with many other professions, is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. According to a recent study published…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced today that the downtown Manhattan heliport would add the infrastructure necessary to support…
The problem San Francisco cannot regain its economic footing without a downtown revival, but many obstacles stand in the way.…
Announced this week at Micromobility America in San Francisco, Joyride has partnered with GEM to deploy IoT-connected low-speed vehicles (LSVs) for shared use. The…
As we shift from summer into fall, I have compiled the most striking posts from the past few months. Organizations are using HHS grants for transit, making new partners, and trying new models to best support their communities.
A flying car company claim to be the first to successfully pilot a two-seater personal Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL)…
This is the fledgling South Florida company’s entry in a novel and increasingly competitive race to be one of the…
In upstate New York, a rural community is offering an on-demand door to door service, and fixed route service. In Washington State, King County Metro created a community transportation navigator program, striving to create culturally inclusive systems to navigate their public transit system.
Personal AVs as a “False Early Dream,” federal funds for electric buses are released, Uber brings car-sharing to the US, and one town invests in “communal Teslas.” These are just a few of the many stories about mobility and technology assembled for mobility managers.
In 2019, Stark County’s SARTA system was awarded an Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) grant to make public transit more accessible to all riders. Successful partnerships and communication led to more equitable mobility programs.
Air taxis are moving closer to reality, but federal, state and local governments have not yet developed or implemented policies for the…
May was a month chock-filled with transit technology hyperbole. Autonomous vehicles are “basically impossible,” delivery robots are in a “regulatory…
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) partnered with the Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC) to provide driver training and employment for unhoused people. The success of the program has been life changing for Mississippians experiencing homelessness, while helping transit providers solve critical driver shortages.
Considered perhaps the most prominent staple of public transport everywhere, it is precisely the bus that keeps on innovating –…
A new study suggests that when employees from one company run into employees from another company, creative sparks fly Do…
By 2030, electric vertical and takeoff landing (eVTOL) and other passenger-carrying advanced air mobility aircraft could offer many more flights per…
Key Findings 21 percent of U.S. adults without access to a vehicle or public transit went without needed medical care…
The student Dream Team Delft Hyperloop prototype can now ‘fly’ across the Delft campus. The nearly 40-meter-long test track is…
For a small but growing number of food banks, distributing food is no longer enough. These food banks, including Feeding…
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced over $94 million in grants designed to “leverage technology to create safer, more equitable,…
Karl von Drais, inventor of the first bicycle, showed that extraordinary genius is not necessary for great invention. Innovation can be…
In a groundbreaking development that could change the face of personal transportation, technology company Aerwins Technologies has unveiled the world’s…
From Ford, Bosch, and Alphabet’s Waymo to startups such as Sea Machines and Wallbox, these companies are bringing fresh thinking…
Well-funded startups set out to build super-fast transit; passengers are still waiting.
A new innovation lab dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing transportation problems is opening soon in Detroit — the…
Have more mobility news that we should be reading and sharing? Let us know! Reach out to Sage Kashner (kashner@ctaa.org).
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