Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Erhardt et al. —Erhardt.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2014

MIT, in partnership with Audi and GE, has launched HubCab —a transportation tracking tool aimed at reducing commuting congestion, decreasing vehicle emissions and lowering the cost of mobility infrastructure. HubCab tracks more than 150 million taxi rides in New York City over the course of a year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Thirteen companies and one university have signed agreements with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project’s National Campaign to continue work towards integrating air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft and other new air vehicle concepts into the national airspace system. SkyGrid, and The University of North Texas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The research suggests that driverless vehicles will have a disruptive impact on transportation around the world and will ultimately lead to millions of professional drivers being made redundant. Juniper predicts that city-based taxi services will be one of the key early adopters of driverless vehicles. —James Hodgson.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

TECO 2030 has signed an agreement with UiT The Arctic University of Norway—which has a campus in Narvik—to cooperate on enhancing research and education in Norway on hydrogen and fuel cells. The company is currently working to establish hydrogen filling stations for trucks, buses and other heavy-duty transport all across Norway.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

A team from Tongji University in China has generated comprehensive emission factors (functional relations between pollutant emissions and the activity that causes them) for Shanghai, China light-duty vehicles at various average speed levels. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board doi: 10.3141/2340-05.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Volkswagen’s system relies on the D-Wave quantum annealer, a different kind of machine than the universal quantum computers under development by other firms, including Google. Volkswagen believes that such a traffic optimization system could be offered to public transport companies, taxi companies or fleet operators.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

million to help 17 New York State companies develop and commercialize innovative new transportation technologies intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is awarding $4.6 Earlier post.). NYSERDA funding: $270,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

ACM’s study, titled “Preparing the Workforce for Automated Vehicles,” is being conducted by Michigan State University in collaboration with Texas A&M Transportation Institute. TRI joins other companies in supporting this research. The study is expected to be published later in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (IIS), and Senyo Kogyo Co. and its group company (the companies are specialized in the construction of amusement park facilities) recently built a track line to test an energy-saving urban transportation system at the Chiba Experimental Station of IIS in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The HY4 fuel cell aircraft was developed by the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics together with partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport. —Josef Kallo, responsible for the HY4 project at DLR and a Professor at the University of Ulm.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. WiTricity’s technology enables a hands-free and efficient charging experience for EV drivers.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

SPLT operates a platform that allows companies, universities, and municipal authorities to offer their workforces ridesharing services. Ridesharing, in which digital services and apps are used to form carpools and to organize vehicle sharing and taxis, is a growth market in the connected mobility sector.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Volvo Cars, the Swedish Transport Administration and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration are collaborating on a development and demonstration project to enable cars to share information through a cloud-based network about conditions that relate to road friction (such as icy patches). Earlier post.) This is just the beginning.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2022

Shown here is a glimpse into the imagined future of urban transportation. A planned network of landing spots will let eVTOLs recharge their batteries between flights, keeping people above the hustle and bustle (and traffic tie-ups) that come standard with taking private cars or taxis on city streets. Brandon Martin/Rice University.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

The ultimate goal is to create a concept called ‘Cloud Transportation’ where software, AI-defined devices and mobility come together to create a mobility ecosystem where transportation is easily accessible to everyone. And our solutions and devices make that knowledge universally useful.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Regional transport as an entry scenario. Our goal is to use aircraft such as the HY4 as an Electric Air Taxi to connect destinations more flexibly and offer faster alternatives to existing routes and means of transport. The DLR researchers see application possibilities in European regional traffic. —Josef Kallo.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Power 2020 Q3 MCI Study: personal vehicles (+11 percentage points); delivery services (+3); taxi/ride-hailing services (+4); and public transit (+2). research scientist in the MIT AgeLab and associate director of The New England University Transportation Center at MIT. —Bryan Reimer, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Combining human and artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles could push driverless cars more quickly toward wide-scale adoption, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). It also keeps the era of cars as autonomous rolling living rooms out of reach. —Lundgard et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

One of the gurus of car sharing, Dr. Susan Shaheen of UC Berkeley, says we are in the age of shared mobility where new modes of alternative transportation services are making great changes. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. as well as 600 universities throughout the country.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Grab drivers earn 40-70% more per hour than the average transport or delivery driver in Indonesia, and Grab has generated more than US$260 million of income for its driver partners in Indonesia. Grab will continue to expand to more cities in Indonesia, grow its transport services, and invest in GrabPay as a mobile payments platform.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Awards include (ranked by amount): PHL Taxi Management LLC —$900,000 – to purchase and deploy 50 new CNG taxis in Philadelphia that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to build a publicly accessible CNG fueling station in the city. Self Heating & Cooling Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. Dr. Frank is also CTO and co-founder of Efficient Drivetrains Inc. Dr. Bruce R.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

A reduction in road casualties and the avoidance of speeding penalties - these are the key targets behind Transport for London’s (TFL) six-month trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology. This unit can be disabled at the touch of a button and there is also an override system to disable it entirely.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

Transport for London (TfL) will begin a six-month trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology which aims to reduce road casualties and help drivers avoid speeding penalties. They partners commissioned the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds to produce the report. ISA speed map for Greater London.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Louis, where the reasons for growth in this “New Wave” market include enthusiastic dealer engagement that results in increased community education and awareness, corporate and university outreach and midwestern pragmatism that appreciates the value equation of an EV. Chicago and Denver (tied). New York City. Electric (Battery) Sales'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

By 2003, all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi were retrofitted to run on CNG; only new vehicles with CNG engines are now available. In Delhi, there are more than 55,000 CNG auto-rickshaws for hire, providing flexible mobility that is faster and more reliable than city buses while costing less than conventional taxis.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In addition, at the beginning of the winter semester car2gether will be presented to students at the universities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm. The concept is an addition to car ownership and other means of transport. For example, a taxi symbol takes the user straight to the central taxi switchboard in Ulm.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Recent innovations in autonomous public transport. Arizona-based startup Local Motors has unveiled Olli ( earlier post ), a 12-passenger minibus that may hit university campuses in Las Vegas and Miami later this year. These kinds of programs seek to do more than economize public transportation. The results were staggering.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 12, 2021

According to a press statement from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), testing will take place in three phases, the first of which will begin this summer. According to INDOT, pavement testing, analysis, and optimization will be carried out in the first two phases in collaboration with Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Singapore-based TUM CREATE unveiled an electric taxi prototype designed for tropical megacities, codenamed EVA, at the Tokyo Motor Show. EVA serves as a platform to showcase the results of the work at TUM CREATE, a joint research program by Technische Universität München (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

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APRIL 5, 2022

Local DCFC: Factors affecting the equity of EV charging DC Fast Charging is needed in support of transportation services users (taxis, Uber, Lyft, etc…) and for local fleets used by multi-unit dwelling residents, intercity travelers, and local individual EV owners. Access both in and out should be easy, including for medium-duty EVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), in cooperation with the Toyota City municipal government, transportation companies and others, began testing of an optimized urban transportation system called “Ha:mo” (“harmonious mobility”). Provision of “eco-points” based on park-and-ride facility and public transportation use. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Researchers at MIT, Cornell University, and the Italian National Research Council’s Institute for Informatics and Telematics have devised a framework—the “shareability network”—to enable the systematic analysis of the tradeoff between collective benefits of sharing taxi services and individual passenger discomfort.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2019

The LA Green New Deal seeks to “zero out” Los Angeles’ main sources of harmful emissions: buildings, transportation, electricity, and trash. LA’s carbon neutral pathway calls for deep reductions in GHG emissions from the transportation sector, affecting mobility, public transit and private vehicles.

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