Significantly altering fuel efficiency standards will put investments and jobs at risk, the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) said in a recent report. The Trump Administration dete...
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A varied industry alliance recently sent a letter to U.S. senators urging them to oppose the American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies (AV START) Act, ...
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A new pilot program, launching under the Nissan Energy Share initiative, will research whether the energy stored in electric vehicles (EVs) can help companies save on electric utility costs. The p...
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The DRIVEN consortium recently announced it will begin testing autonomous vehicles in the London borough of Hounslow within the month and will continue until next summer. The London tests follow su...
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FedEx Corp. will add 1,000 Chanje V8100 electric delivery vehicles to its U.S. commercial and residential pick-up and delivery fleet. One hundred vehicles will be purchased, and the remainder will...
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New York State launched several initiatives to facilitate the use of electric vehicles. One of the initiatives is to expand the state’s EVolve NY program, which calls for the installation of publ...
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Power management company Eaton recently joined U.S. officials and industry leaders in support of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Cleaner Trucks Initiative. The initiative establishes up...
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Over the summer, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) installed an adaptive signal timing system on State Route 77, which is the primary north-south route connecting Tucson and Oro Valley a...
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Optional front crash prevention systems prevent motor vehicle crashes, according to an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study of General Motors vehicles. Crash prevention systems inclu...
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Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of Groupe Renault-Nissan Motor Co.-Mitsubishi Motors, recently invested in in advanced lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology company Enevate Corp...
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held recently for the new 2.5 million-square-foot Multi Modal Facility (MMF) serving O’Hare International Airport. The ground transportation center will improve con...
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Indiana’s Next Level Roads: Community Crossings Initiative recently awarded $100 million in state-matched funds for 283 municipal and county road projects. This year, 444 communities had applied ...
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This Thanksgiving, 54.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home, AAA forecasts, reflecting a 4.8 percent jump from last year and the highest travel volume since 2005. AAA defi...
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The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) recently named Matthew J. Jeanneret as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective Nov. 1. “Matt’s 20 years o...
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The Federal Highway Administration recently awarded a $1.84 million grant to Penn Medicine to fund a three-company partnership to investigate strategies to reduce distracted driving. Penn Medicine ...
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Gasoline prices nationally are averaging $2.76 a gallon, the lowest price since the end of April. National prices also are 15 cents less than last month and six cents less than last week but are 24...
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Of the 38,958 people who died in transportation-related accidents in 2017, 95 percent of them were killed in highway crashes, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration....
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CN announced last week that it had expanded its supply chain offerings with the acquisition of the Canadian TransX Group of Companies, one of that nation’s oldest and largest transportation companie...
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A $1.9 million intersection modernization in Volney, New York, has been completed, according to Paul A. Karas, acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation. The project ea...
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Ford Motor Co. and Chinese language search engine Baidu recently partnered to advance the development of and test autonomous vehicle in China. The Baidu-Ford L4 Autonomous Vehicle Test Project wil...
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