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How transportation agencies can maximize infrastructure investments with network modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Across roads, highways, rails, and airports, federal, state and local transit authorities are rolling out new digital infrastructure to enhance safety and make transportation more efficient. Another step transportation agencies can make is to adopt a network-as-a-service (NaaS) model, which makes network and service management much easier.

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Oracle Cloud SCM gets new capabilities to help manage logistics

CIO Business Intelligence

The new features appear in its Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management applications, and include expanded business intelligence capabilities, enhanced logistics network modelling, a new trade incentive program, and an updated Transportation Management Mobile application. billion in 2021.

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Bellevue awarded $1.4M to test tech that adjusts traffic signals in real time for pedestrian safety

GeekWire

intersection as part of the city’s application for a U.S. Department of Transportation SMART grant. Department of Transportation to pilot the use of technologies aimed at making pedestrians safer when they cross intersections. A rendering of pedestrians and vehicles being observed by smart technologies in a Bellevue, Wash.,

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Get ready for scooters, Seattle: Lawmakers approve new scooter-share pilot program

GeekWire

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday voted 8-1 to approve a scooter-share pilot program. Transportation Committee Chair Alex Pedersen was the lone vote against the ordinance. ” Lime and Spin are participating in a separate pilot program with King County in the White Center area, just south of downtown Seattle.

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Tech plays key role as Washington state launches ambitious programs to curb carbon emissions

GeekWire

Washington state this week kicked off the implementation of its two most ambitious climate policies to date: one that caps carbon emissions for fuel suppliers and utilities, and another requiring reductions in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. state with a similar carbon capping program.

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Seattle moves ahead with scooter-share pilot program that could begin this fall

GeekWire

The Seattle City Council will vote on a scooter-share pilot program Sept. 8 after the transportation committee approved the plan Wednesday. After an environmental review and an application process that garnered interest from nine scooter share companies, the city is ready to test the new mobility option. ”

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Seattle set to add fourth scooter option as Spin offers high-tech model to improve rider habits

GeekWire

is set to receive a permit from the Seattle Department of Transportation and join three other providers on the streets of Seattle. LINK, Lime and Wheels started deploying their devices last fall as part of the city’s Scooter Share Program to encourage healthier, greener modes of transportation.