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…
Five years ago on a cold February morning, city and state leaders, along with the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency…
An elderly person who needs a few extra seconds to cross the street. A recent newcomer who needs help navigating…
Boy Hendriks, Transdev Netherlands’ Manager – Innovative & Business Development, provides exclusive insight into the trial of the company’s new…
Transport needs to be decarbonized at every level if we are to meet climate goals. One of the most effective…
The saying, “think outside the box,” is used to inspire innovative ideas designed to overcome challenging and complex circumstances. However,…
Manufacturers are developing systems generically known as C-V2X — shorthand for cellular vehicle-to-everything technology — for vehicles to communicate with…
Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new…
The “age of hyperloop” is just “years away”, according to Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) chief marketing officer Robert Miller. Miller…
It has been almost a decade since Elon Musk floated the idea of hyperloop, a new mode of transportation that promises…
IF FOR SOME reason a 372 mph bullet train is too sluggish for your taste, you may be in luck: A new super…
Innovation debt and technical debt result from not evaluating and improving system and platform capabilities. In recent years, government has gotten better…
We have been waiting a long time for vacuum tubes to be used for transportation, after witnessing how fast they work in…
City governments, colleges, and universities all want what’s best for their communities. Cities are tasked with responsibilities like adopting new…
The Commonwealth of Virginia recently hosted a live trial of a new driver and pedestrian safety concept that allows near-real-time notification of…
The Poverty Spotlight tool in use. (Image courtesy of Poverty Spotlight) Poverty has a disparate impact on communities across the…
Just a few years ago, it felt like flying cars were still a distant sci-fi future. But investment has increased…
Washington state’s Department of Commerce today announced an “Innovation Cluster Accelerator” that gives five organizations $550,000 to build an “innovation cluster” in a…
The principles will help set a strategy for the department’s approach to innovation in transportation, especially as companies deploy more advanced…
As we reflect on two consecutive years of community disruption, one area has remained a critical lifeline: our transportation systems.…
Flying cars, air taxis or aircraft with electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOLs) are still, even by optimistic estimates, years away from…
A Swiss-American transportation technology company has announced it will build a new hyperloop test track in the U.S., according to a…
Pueblo will soon be at the forefront of the race to develop a hyperloop. The Swiss-American start-up Swisspod announced a…
This three-part series (Episodes 3-5 of NCMM’s Mobility Lines podcast) features a conversation with transportation technology expert Carol Schweiger. Episode 3 begins…
Hyperloop is a new form of ground transportation currently being developed by a number of companies. The transportation method would…
Image Credit: Hillsborough Area Regional Transit With the COVID-19 pandemic rocking the United States, transit, like other essential sectors, needed…
Panelists discussed how the next generation of innovations could reshape America’s car-centric lifestyle
The University of Cincinnati is working with NASA to help Ohio prepare for the advent of cargo-carrying drones and passenger-carrying…
Last December, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the city would become “an unmistakable leader on urban mobility.” Tech companies designing…
Two walkways made from kinetic floor tiles have been installed at Leighton Buzzard train station, through a partnership between Central…
Seoul, South Korea’s capital, has started to install a set of 26 smart poles in six areas of the city.…
Google on Tuesday announced several new features that are coming to Google Maps. One feature lets you navigate indoors using…
Imagine a place near where you live, work or play to conveniently access walking or biking trails, rent a scooter,…
Flying cars got another step closer to reality when a prominent player in the space pledged to create an Urban Air…
Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) recently reintroduced the Strengthening Methods to Advance Research and Technology (SMART) in Transportation Act, which he…
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, The National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM) has pivoted their classic peer exchanges…
New technologies and tech-enabled services present us with a window of opportunity to rethink our transportation system, address inequality and…
Over the last few decades, we have seen innovation transform myriad fields: medicine, computing, entertainment, mobility. Yet even as technology…
The Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority is taking action to determine whether an aerial gondola system of transportation across…
A concept video shows how the company has taken some of the best aspects from aviation, rail, automotive, and even…
This is the first in a series of blog posts on this topic. In this blog, I will share some…
Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced a plan to bring public transportation to the skies of Los Angles by 2023 with…
Although many remain sceptical, Elon Musk’s demand for a ‘hyperloop’- magnetic levitation-powered trains carrying passengers at high speeds – is…
These hubs are centralized locations where various forms of transportation come together on one corner, from bike lanes and bus…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced the creation of the city’s first Transportation Technology Innovation Zone – an area where private…
Residents near Orlando may soon be able to walk out of their homes, drive down their street and climb aboard…
Missouri Rural Health Association was developed to support rural communities’ health care. It does this through the programs they offer.…
The dream of high-speed ground transportation that can whisk you from L.A. to San Francisco, from New York to Washington…
Virgin Hyperloop has released a new concept video showing its plans for a transportation system it says will allow passengers to…
Traveling for the disabled is difficult even when there’s no pandemic to contend with. This group is chronically underserved and…
Following the launch of the Paradox Prize in 2019 to find solutions to Northeast Ohio’s ‘no car, no job; no…
Virgin Hyperloop is investing $500 million to build what could one day be the future of high-speed transportation. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice…
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” So said Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future, and so agrees Mayor…
While public sector pilots are not new, their use has grown rapidly over the last 20 years with the adoption…
In the first post of this series, we looked at what open-source software (OSS) is and some of the key…
The government of Alberta has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with TransPod, to support the development of safe, high-speed transportation in…
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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