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Cars Are Ruining Our Cities

We might be living through a new age of miracles. Last month, Los Angeles decided against adding lanes to a freeway, an unexpected move in a city that has mistakenly thought for years that more lanes mean fewer traffic jams. Shortly before that, Germany's highest court ruled that diesel cars could be banned from city centers to clean up the air. Mind you, Germany is the land where diesel technology was invented - and Volkswagen, the world's largest automobile maker, investe

Senior Senate Appropriator Collins Sounds Alarm on Highway Trust Fund

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees transportation programs, warned that the Trump administration's approach to project investment "fails to address the greatest threat to our nation's infrastructure, which is the ever-growing insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund." The senior appropriator continued with several criticisms of the administration's approach on various programs in her opening statement at an April 11 hearing on th

Florida’s Port Canaveral is Growing

Port Canaveral, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, is undertaking a series of projects each designed to meet the growing demand on the port’s cargo and passenger facilities. One of Florida’s newer deepwater harbors, Port Canaveral is a man-made facility created in the early 1950s. Originally envisioned by local business leaders to support the growth of central Florida, the port has rapidly expanded from its humble beginnings with the local commercial fishing industry. By th

Volocopter Presents Air Taxi Services at Scale

Volocopter has presented its air taxi infrastructure for cities. The vision integrates air taxis into existing transportation systems and provides additional mobility for up to 10,000 passengers per day with a single point to point connection. Co-founder Alex Zosel expects the first full Volocopter air taxi systems with dozens of Volo-Hubs and Volo-Ports to be in place within the next 10 years, capable of flying 100.000 passengers an hour to their desired destination. Volocop

Uber-Manc: Can The Car Hire App Really Change A City

According to the car sharing app's Northern boss, Uber can transform Manchester. Innovative partnerships with landlords and developers will unlock land and change geographies, whilst big data can unblock transport nodes. The theory applies not just to Manchester, but to any city in the world. The ambition is grand, the potential for change huge. But how will it work in practice? Uber's head of Northern Cities, Neil McGonigle, explained to Bisnow how tie-ups with the property

Google's 'Project Wing' Working on Air Traffic Control for Drone Delivery

Project Wing has developed sophisticated air-traffic system to regulate flight paths for large-scale drone operation. In a recent open letter to shareholders, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page enthusiastically reminded investors that Alphabet's drone delivery program, Project Wing, is advancing admirably. Project Wing co-leader James Ryan Burgess went into a little more detail in a Medium post he shared on Wednesday. Essentially, the drone program has begun testing their n

The Commercial Drone Alliance Wants FAA to Regulate Hobby Pilots

The trade group wants to regulate airspace in order to implement an organized traffic grid in the skies. While the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t subject recreational drone pilots to the same stringent regulations that commercial operators must undergo, companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Project Wing are calling for Congress to level the playing field. As one of the major corporate forces attempting to establish a cohesive, regulated air-traffic management system for U.S

2018 National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) Planning Call

StartFragment The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG)/Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities Coalition (DFWCCC) invites you to join us on April 24 for the North Texas 2018 National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) Planning Call StartFragment Planning for the 2018 North Texas National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) event is underway and we want you input! We encourage you to join us for our NDEW planning call when we'll share our plans and solicit your thoughts on activities, ex

First Commercial LNG Cargo from U.S. East Coast Sets Sail

The Marshall Islands-flagged LNG carrier Adam LNG. File Photo: Maik Ebel/MarineTraffic.com (Bloomberg) – The first export of natural gas from the U.S. East Coast has set sail. Dominion Energy Inc.’s Cove Point terminal in Maryland shipped its first commercial cargo of liquefied natural gas Monday, officially bringing the total number of U.S. exporters of the super-chilled fuel to two. The company last week said the facility was finally poised to send gas under long-term contr

MAN Diesel & Turbo to Supply Engines for MSC’s Record-Breaking Megaships

MSC’s record-breaking MSC Oscar, which has a TEU capacity of 19,224. Photo: ptnphoto / Shutterstock.com Germany-based MAN Diesel & Turbo says it has won the order to provide both main and auxiliary engines for Mediterranean Shipping Company’s eleven record-breaking 22,000 containerships. Construction of the ships will be split by Samsung Heavy Industries, who will build six of the vessels, and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), who will build the other five. E

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