The City of Charlotte’s Department of Transportation (CDoT) has launched an app designed to improve safety for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.
The TravelSafely App, which has been rolled out as a pilot project in South End, connects users to an electronic network of intersection and crosswalk data, as well as to each other.
Ten years ago, the Stockholm region set an ambitious target to run all land public transport on 100% fossil fuel-free fuel by 2025, but buses powered by ethanol and RME (rapeseed methyl ester) contain some percentage of fossil ingredients, therefore, the total number of buses will not be 100% fossil fuel free, as fossil components are needed to start the engine or enter the production process. However, buses that run on electricity, biogas or HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil) will use 100% fossil fuel-free raw materials.
The China Railway Research and Development Corporation (CRRC) has introduced the autonomous guided, track- and wireless tram, a major advance in the design and technology known as Autonomous Rapid Transit (ART), a LiDAR-guided articulated bus system for urban passenger transport. It was developed by CRRC Zhuzhou Institute Co Ltd and was unveiled in 2017 in Zhuzhou, Huan Province. The product was described as a cross between a bus and a tram, commonly referred to as a "tram without tracks".
Initially 8 buses of DKV Transport Ltd. have been equipped with passenger counting sensors on an experimental basis, but now 14 buses are equipped with them. These sensors are able to provide DKV's scheduling team with data to optimise the company's service. This means that the data will be used to detect the busiest routes and lines, track how passenger numbers change between stops, and compare them at different times.
The Rollet mobile application, developed in Hungary, allows fully automatic parking in municipal parking lots in Debrecen without a parking ticket. The mobile payment system detects the parking time and automatically settles the parking fee.
After registering once, anyone can use without cash or parking ticket. The parking fee is automatically deducted from the motorist's credit card when the car is driven out, without any action required.
The new system was introduced in two sites in June 2018, then 6 more sites were added in the second half of 2018.
SHARE NOW is a modern, sustainable, environmentally friendly, sharing-based service for residential and business customers that can replace the use of private cars, free up parking spaces in the city and reduce congestion caused by vehicles in the city. SHARE NOW has around 400 carsharing vehicles available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in Budapest and the surrounding areas, and customers can access this sustainable mobility solution through an app.
The company’s activities focus specifically on industrial drone solutions, covering research and development – including drone manufacturing – the domestic and European distribution of industrial drones and data processing software, servicing, and the organization and conducting of drone operator training sessions, and also the provision of services.
With Parker, parking is a smooth experience as you can easily find available parking spaces at any time and it even helps you to start mobile parking.
One of the new forms of public transport, GyőrBike combines the freedom of individual transport with the reliability of fixed transportation. The aim of the system is that as many people as possible use the bikes as part of their daily life, thus reducing the air pollution, traffic jams and noise of the city. In addition, the main goal is to make this effective and environmentally-friendly alternative more popular among travelers in the city center.
Joby Aviation is a California-headquartered transportation company developing and manufacturing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft which they intend to operate as a commercial passenger aircraft beginning in 2024.
The company has spent more than a decade developing and testing zero-emissions aircraft that will enable a pilot and four passengers to leapfrog over the congestion below on journeys of five to 150 miles, at speeds of up to 200mph.