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INRIX: shared bikes and scooters could replace nearly 50% of downtown vehicle trips

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These cities also feature warm climates with minimal topographic variation, providing further support for micromobility. The high proportion of short-distance trips—independent of a city’s density or public transit network—highlights the universal potential for shared scooters and bikes.

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Toronto Transit Commission greenlights first battery-electric bus fleet; 10 Proterra E2s to start

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The TTC is the most heavily-used urban mass transit system in all of Canada, and the third largest in North America, after the New York City Transit Authority and Mexico City Metro. A new study from McGill University found that each 10% increase in the kilometers of bus service resulted in an 8.27% increase in ridership.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. She left in 2017 and joined Success Academy as dean of mathematics. Students are asked to complete tasks based on what they are learning.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. The NYU Power Outage Dashboard helps visualize power outages in New York City. For example, on 8 July 2021, there were 41 relatively large outages in New York City.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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GM announced that late in 2016 it will add a fleet of 2017 Chevrolet Volts designed to drive autonomously within its renovated Warren Technical Center campus. GM has been testing its “Super Cruise” autonomous driving technology since 2012, and confirmed today the feature will be available in the 2017 Cadillac CT6. Let’s Drive NYC.

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