By Imelda March Aug 26, 2020 The second pilot of the Chicago E-scooter program began on August 17, with the devices available citywide, except for downtown and the lakefront. Bird, Lime, and Spin are the vendors this year, and each company is allowed to deploy up to 3,300 vehicles. They offer... read more →
Companies are already testing driverless trucks on America's roads. The technology will bring untold profits, but it may cost thousands of truckers their livelihoods. You know that universal sign we give truckers, hoping they'll sound their air horns? Well, you're going to be hearing a lot less honking in the... read more →
Ankit Mishra, Contributor Forbes Energy NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 15: People ride bicycles in Washington Square Park during the coronavirus ... [+] GETTY IMAGES The outbreak of Covid-19 has had a significant impact on urban mobility. Based on a recent International Energy Agency (IEA) report, the lockdown measures put in place to... read more →
Jorge L. Ortiz USA TODAY Plastic bottles by the side of a road are a common sight, an unseemly reminder of how often consumer products are discarded carelessly. Now some of those bottles may become part of the road. A California company has devised a process that integrates recycled plastic... read more →
Has Covid-19 And Its Accelerated Work-From-Home Experiment Permanently Changed The Future Of Cities?
It’s been 31 years since the birth of the World Wide Web. Within the two to three years that followed, the mass adoption of the Internet started to occur. And in the past three decades, the world has experienced significant changes in finding and consuming information and entertainment and purchasing/delivering... read more →
Stacy Noblet, Contributor, Forbes TRANSPORTATION Government agencies, utilities, automakers and technology providers alike are working hard to establish plug-in electric vehicle (EV) charging networks to support the growing EV wave nationwide. Electrify America recently completed its first cross-country EV charging route, the U.S. Department of Energy hosts a charging station... read more →
Carlton Reid Senior Contributor The City of London Corporation—which administers London’s financial district—is moving at pace to make the Square Mile more people friendly. In addition to a growing number of pop-up cycleways and widened sidewalks installed during the first phase of the Corporation’s pandemic transport plan there will... read more →
BY JESSICA COULON The New York City Council voted on Thursday to legalize the use of all e-bikes with a top speed of up to 25mph and all e-scooters with a top speed of up to 20mph. E-bikes and e-scooters were also legalized statewide on April 1, with the passing of... read more →
By Stephanie Mlot June 22, 2020 Google Maps is ready for the world to reopen: The navigation platform has reportedly developed new "first mile" transportation features and a revamped user interface. In a series of Saturday tweets, tech blogger and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong revealed a handy plan for route... read more →
Norman Anderson, Contributor, Forbes A critical question: when you picture infrastructure, what do you see? The answer points to what we invest in, who we invest for - and even how we fund that investment. The question matters because infrastructure is in the midst of a revolution, and our thinking needs a big,... read more →