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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Thus, today’s choices on the connectivity of streets may restrict future resilience and lock in pathways of energy use and CO 2. Christopher Barrington-Leigh and Adam Millard-Ball (2019) “A global assessment of street-network sprawl” PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223078.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

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million) from Toyota Mobility Foundation to Chulalongkorn University, is scheduled to last about 18 months from November 2019 through early 2021. The Toyota Mobility Foundation was established in August 2014 to support the development of a more mobile society.

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Amtrak invests $2.4B for next-gen Alstom Avelia high-speed trainsets and infrastructure upgrades

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million in FY 2014. The new trainsets will operate along the Washington – New York – Boston Northeast Corridor initially at speeds up to 160 mph (258 km/h) and will be capable of speeds up to 186 mph (300 km/h) and thus will be able to take advantage of future NEC infrastructure improvements. million passengers in FY 2002 to 3.5

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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In 2016, TNCs were 15% of all intra-San Francisco vehicle trips, which is 12 times the number of taxi trips, while in New York in 2016, TNC ridership equaled that of yellow cab and doubled annually between 2014 and 2016. There are several mechanisms by which TNCs could reduce congestion. Science Advances Vol. 5 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau2670.

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BMW to showcase 5 electric vehicles at LA show; world debut of new vehicle

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Fully electric vehicles will run across the BMW Group portfolio and MINI will showcase its take on future personal mobility in the city with the North American premiere of the MINI Electric Concept. MINI will then present an all-electric series-production model in 2019.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. INVENTIVE SYSTEMS In 2014 Abbott began noticing that companies were increasingly using AI to do a variety of tasks including creating designs. Hold a Patent?

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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is in the process of staging the release of the full Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014), its annual report on projected energy use and analysis of select energy topics. Alternative modes of travel affect VMT to the degree that the population has access to substitutes for personal LDVs.

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