Transportation news, curated through an EECS lense. Special interest and emphasis on autonomous vehicles, scalable solutions, cost-efficient transit (e.g. busses), innovations in infrastructure, security, IU/UX, and insights into the behavioral/legal/ethical aspects.
ITS: Los Angeles completes citywide intelligent transportation system | Roads & Bridges 2013-03-28 The city of Los Angeles completed the implementation of a citywide intelligent transportation system ITS in February, adding the last of its nearly-4,400 signalized intersections to the network. It is the first city in the world to complete a full-city ITS. via ITS: Los Angeles completes citywide intelligent transportation system | Roads & Bridges. 400+ cameras loop detectors programmable ...
If Only All Subway Sandwich Shops Were Actual Subway Stations – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities 2013-03-20 There are upwards of 140 Subway sandwich shops in the Baltimore metropolitan region, which is a whole lot more than there are actual subway transit stops (which, as you may recall from that early Subway wallpaper, provided the original inspiration for the franchise). Baltimore today has just one partially underground subway line running from Owings ...
PARC Hard at Work to Solve Problems in Health Care, Batteries, Traffic 2013-03-20 Looking for somewhere to park on city streets is a main cause of urban congestion and pollution. PARC has developed an analytics-based engine that dynamically adjusts parking rates (usually $3 to $5 per hour) based on demand for spaces. It models how people choose parking spaces and the flexibility that drivers have about where, when ...
Connected Corridors | CITRIS 2013-03-14 Of course commuters, too, make up a self-calibrating and learning system. Turning that fact to the project’s advantage, Connected Corridors has teamed up with Waze, the prime social network for commuters. Yessss! Because the project requires the coordination not only of huge data sets, but also of multiple state and local agencies, it has a large policy ...
Automatic – Your Smart Driving Assistant 2013-03-12 Automatic learns about your driving style and gives you subtle audio cues when you do things that waste gas. via Automatic – Your Smart Driving Assistant. Driver score, trip timeline, emergency calls, parking spot memory, maintenance reminders HT Nancy
BMW is turning itself into Zipcar—by selling mobility instead of cars – Quartz 2013-03-12 BMW plans to offer buyers of its forthcoming electric i3 vehicle the option of a gas-powered loaner BMW should they need to make a trip that would exceed the vehicle’s approximately 100-mile range. The company expects that drivers will make nine of out 10 trips with the concept model, which it touts as its “megacity ...
N.Y.U. Center Develops a ‘Science of Cities’ – NYTimes.com 2013-03-11 “I’d like to create SimCity for real,” Dr. Koonin says, referring to the classic computer simulation game. The 10-member project team includes music professors, computer scientists and graduate students. The group will use the city’s 311 data, but also plans to employ wireless sensors — tiny ones outside windows, noise meters on traffic lights and street ...
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