The US Department of Transportation has announced the six cities where it will hold Driver Acceptance Clinics for the connected vehicle programme. The first clinic will be held in Brooklyn, MI, near Detroit, in August, while the remaining clinics will be held in Minneapolis, Orlando, FL, Blacksburg, VA, Dallas and San Francisco.
Jason Barnes looks at where the detection and monitoring sector is heading.
In the future, there will be no such thing as an un-instrumented road. Just a short time ago, that could have been a quote from a high-level policy document but with the first arrivals of vehicles with 802.11p connectivity – the door-opener to Vehicle-to-X (V2X) applications – it’s a statement which has increasing validity. The technology which uses our roads will also provide information on road conditions but V2X isn’t the only
Bike-share company Indego is adding 400 more pedal-assist electric bikes to its pilot in Philadelphia.
Waffiyyah Murray, Better Bike Share Partnership programme manager, says: ““Adding more electric bikes to the fleet will help address several barriers and open the door for new cyclists who may not have considered using Indego before.”
The Better Bike Share Partnership, a collaboration funded by the JPB Foundation, focuses on building equitable and replicable bike-share systems. In 2015, Indego used fundi
Delegates at National Harbor this week have opportunity to gain first hand experience of a national connected vehicle program Vehicles of the test fleet of an extensive research program are being put through their paces each day of this year’s ITS America Annual Meeting. With the key objective of showing how vehicles from different manufacturers can communicate and understand each other, technology of the US DOT Connected Vehicle Safety Pilot Program is being demonstrated at National Harbor.
