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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

Cars That Think

A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. Ultimately, the data and knowledge gained through FloodNet can be used by local residents, researchers, and city agencies to address flood risks.

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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

Cars That Think

Several states have enacted laws that ban, or would appear to ban, discussing the concept in public schools and colleges, and even private workplaces. or New York City. The result has been to deny most Black families the opportunity to build generational wealth on par with their white counterparts.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

Green Car Congress

Demographic factors such as an overall urban population boom, the increase in urban single-person households and rapidly aging urban populations—the population age 65 and older in New York City, for example, is expected to increase more than 36% by 2030—will lead to significant changes in urban mobility.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

For fleet operators, concepts like demand charges and charging management software are entirely new. .” Faster charging is typically more expensive because it requires an electrical system to operate at peak power, for which utilities levy higher demand charges, since it puts more stress on the electric grid.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model. Getaround Getaround is free to join, similar in concept to Turo. Trust is natural for people who work together. Convenient hourly and daily rentals.

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