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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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Uber will acquire public transportation software company Routematch

The Verge

Uber announced that it will acquire Routematch, an Atlanta-based company that develops software for public transportation agencies. Uber said the acquisition will help bolster its own efforts to integrate more public transportation services in its app, like route planning and ticket purchases.

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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

GeekWire

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.

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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs

GeekWire

As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back. Vollmer previously served as chief engineer on the space station program. NASA awarded Boeing a $4.2

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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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Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions

CTOvision

Could a program detect potential terrorists by reading their facial expressions and behavior? This was the hypothesis put to the test by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in 2003, as it began testing a new surveillance program called the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, or Spot for short.

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China Mobile’s Green 5G Program achieves energy-saving at scale

TM Forum

. “We have achieved end-to-end energy-saving in 5G network operations, not only in the wireless 5G base stations but also in the transport network and data centers. This project is beneficial to help telecom enterprises, industrial customers, and the entire economy and society to save energy and achieve sustainable development.”

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