Sustainable Transportation Takes Off
Information Week
MARCH 26, 2024
A focus on decarbonization in the transportation space can fuel significant sustainability gains for businesses.
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Information Week
MARCH 26, 2024
A focus on decarbonization in the transportation space can fuel significant sustainability gains for businesses.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 18, 2023
“Customers are increasingly dealing with questions that focus not only on data management issues like efficiency, sovereignty and security, but also sustainability,” says Braun. We see increasing pressure being placed on our customers to take action on sustainability measures,” he says.
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GeekWire
JUNE 20, 2023
GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The Paris Air Show is taking place this week and the event kicked off with news from two sustainable aviation ventures that are expanding their efforts in Washington state. The plane is now emblazoned with ZeroAvia navy and sky blue graphics and Alaska Airlines’ name on the tail.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Alaska’s investment is part of a new $230 million UP.Partners venture fund backing early-stage transportation and mobility technology companies, also announced Monday. Diana Birkett Rakow, Alaska’s vice president of public affairs and sustainability (PRNewsfoto/Alaska Airlines). Santa Monica, Calif.-based
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 19, 2023
Alstom promotes the railway as the most sustainable form of mobility through digitization, among other aspects. We try to develop sustainable, durable, accessible, and intelligent transport responses to face the two great challenges of today’s society: the increase in world population and climate change. billion in 2021?
GeekWire
MARCH 18, 2021
Laying out its vision for a fossil-fuel-free future, the City of Seattle has released an ambitious plan to electrify its transportation system, with a list goals over the next nine years that includes everything from 100% emissions-free Uber and Lyft vehicles to closing off a “major area” of the city to cars.
GeekWire
AUGUST 23, 2023
A ride-and-drive event at the Green Transportation Summit and Expo in Tacoma, Wash., But in the lot itself, the sound was delightfully less noisy, as electric trucks and other alternative energy vehicles whisked in and out during the Green Transportation Summit and Expo. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) From a Tacoma, Wash.,
The Verge
JULY 7, 2020
The same goes for eSkootr: At each venue city, the series will bring together representatives from government, industry and civil society to help define policies and practices to build a more sustainable and deliverable vision of future urban transportation. Now, he’s doing the same for this new scooter series.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 13, 2020
“It’s a little bit of a scary picture and not a place any of us want to be,” said Eric Sparks, a Seattle-based principal with The Boston Consulting Group, which prepared the Cascadia Vision 2050 report, speaking at a virtual meeting last week to discuss housing and transportation at the corridor’s annual conference.
Vox
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Car rental company Hertz last month said that it was selling off 20,000 electric cars — one-third of its electric fleet — and replacing them with gasoline-powered vehicles, blaming low demand and high operating costs. Hertz is having trouble finding buyers and expects to take a $245 million hit.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The solutions, some in pilot stage and others in early development, transcend a variety of core industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. United’s Revenue Management Modernization Takes Flight.
The Verge
AUGUST 6, 2020
Gross bookings in its ride-hailing division, or the amount of money it takes in before paying drivers, fell 73 percent year over year. But there was no mistaking the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the company’s core transportation business. Uber had to lay off around 1,000 workers last year amid restructuring efforts.
Vox
JULY 20, 2022
A commercial tanker called the Prism Courage recently traveled from Texas, through the Panama Canal, to South Korea, guided by software from Avikus, a subsidiary of HD Hyundai, a shipbuilding operation that was spun off of the car group. There are those environmental benefits, too.
The Verge
JUNE 23, 2021
On Tuesday, the TLC voted 5-to-1 remove the exemption for electric vehicles, effectively closing off that pathway for Revel. It is not sustainable to allow an unlimited number of new vehicles to the road in a city that is all too familiar with the choke of traffic congestion,” Jarmoszuk said, according to the New York Post.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes. The annual event kicked off Wednesday. But the sector faces it’s own challenges.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 6, 2023
It is becoming increasingly important in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and transportation. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? The apps and tools have to gather, process and deliver back data to the consumer with minimal latency.
The Verge
MAY 17, 2021
London’s long-awaited electric scooter trials will begin next month on June 7th, the city’s transport authority and local councils announced today. London’s transport authority Transport for London (TfL) says more areas are expected to join the trial as it progresses. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images. Speeds will be capped at 12.5
GeekWire
OCTOBER 29, 2023
The goal is really to create a sustainable in-space economy.” Space-industry boosters, including Jeff Bezos, have long argued that lunar resources — ranging from water ice and solar power to minerals and metals — could fuel the development of off-Earth infrastructure for our home planet’s benefit.
Dataconomy
JUNE 1, 2023
The e-retail giant has also laid off some of its workforce recently, parting ways with 27,000 jobs in several divisions, including cloud computing, advertising, and retail divisions. The company has a significant carbon footprint since it depends on fossil fuels to run the planes, trucks, and vans that transport items around the globe.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Mobilizing data is more like getting a flywheel spinning: it takes tremendous effort to get the wheel moving, but its momentum is largely self-sustaining; and thus, as you incrementally apply force, the wheel spins faster and faster, until fingertip touches are enough to sustain a blistering velocity. So, they built a data-lake.
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 11, 2023
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The Investing Edge
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Lately, my personal interest in environmental sustainability has been intersecting with my professional interest in the Internet of Things, or IoT, where we are seeing a tremendous amount of new deal activity and generated a lively discussion at our last B2B IT Forum in Cambridge: From Industry 4.0 to iWatch: The Internet of Things.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 26, 2022
An increase in production is required to make up for off-spec products to meet the product demand plan. A highly scalable computer vision platform would enable you to combine and aggregate the data, and then analyze the resulting data set to determine the cause of the off-spec product. How can we affect sustainability in manufacturing?
GeekWire
DECEMBER 1, 2022
This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). “It’s going to take work and investment, and more people getting involved in it,” Buell said. It was selected in May for the AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 8, 2022
On 11/15 the New York Times reports that “Amazon plans to lay off approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs starting as soon as this week, people with knowledge of the matter said, in what would be the largest job cuts in the company’s history.” Take a full dose of the bad medicine once. Spin it off or shut it down.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
As the world scrambles to staunch carbon emissions from every possible source — construction, transportation, electricity and agriculture included — essentially every industry is going to need to embrace its own “wave of change” and find planet-saving ways of operating. Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth. “If
Dataconomy
MARCH 30, 2023
The increasing importance of IoT in various industries In recent years, the Internet of Things has emerged as a disruptive force in various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and retail. IoT-enabled predictive maintenance also helps prevent equipment breakdowns, reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
The Verge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
There’s a pretty big twist, too, in that you can climb any surface and glide off any precipice. Oculus Quest exclusive, it’s hard to say whether Population: One has a chance of building up as sustainable a player base as the world-dominating battle royale games that are already out there. It’s genius, really. Apex Construct.
Dataconomy
MARCH 30, 2023
The increasing importance of IoT in various industries In recent years, the Internet of Things has emerged as a disruptive force in various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and retail. IoT-enabled predictive maintenance also helps prevent equipment breakdowns, reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
The Verge
APRIL 16, 2021
Stromer is here to challenge those assumptions and force a rethink of how its Swiss-made electric bikes, with top speeds of 45 km/h (28 mph), can disrupt urban transportation for the benefit of residents. I do not, especially not when all that overhead makes the bike take 20 seconds just to boot, an eternity if you’re in a hurry.
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Let’s take a closer look at what telemetry data can offer us in this regard. For example, vehicle telemetry data can show which drivers are driving too fast, braking too hard, or taking inefficient routes, allowing fleet managers to address these issues and improve overall fleet efficiency.
TM Forum
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Telco leaders are taking notice and increasing their focus on carbon reduction opportunities. Bouygues’ Source - a digital brand with a sustainable focus. The first level, already implemented in 4G involved turning off the power amplifier, generating a 20% reduction in energy use. of global CO2 emissions.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2022
Computer vision is helping to reshape the transportation industry at every level from streamlining the passenger experience to preemptive fleet maintenance to fuel optimization. Whether moving people or goods, transportation environments are in constant motion. How can computer vision improve passenger, personnel and facility safety?
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Madison McIlwain: I should start off by saying I’m lucky that I have an incredible team with Defy who have always valued my strengths as a young woman and viewed that as an asset. GeekWire: With your retail/tech background, what’s your take on brick-and-mortar retail in 2021 and competing against all things Amazon?
The Verge
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Basically, I’m pretty much one of the few people [taking an EV startup public via SPAC], maybe the only one, who’s started a car company before. Most people don’t understand that it takes 18 months to do long-lead body tooling for high-volume vehicles. What are the trade-offs of this business model? You have a prototype.”
GeekWire
JULY 24, 2020
Evolute has Infrastructure AI, which allows us to seamlessly understand and transform software into its most modular and transportable form. As one of our partners stated, “We used to take three years to do two weeks of digital transformation activity. What makes you different from the competition? What’s your secret sauce?
GeekWire
JULY 1, 2021
When Amazon workers return to office buildings in the Seattle area, doing so by bicycle could pay off as the company announced Thursday that it’s adding a bike friendly commuter benefit. The company says the push for greener mobility is part of its broader sustainability initiatives.
The Verge
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Self-driving cars promise to even more radically remake cities and suburbs, decrease overall car ownership, and let commuters take back hours of their time as they travel. Self-driving cars, what’s taking so long? That is what’s taking it so long. And safety takes time. Alright, Waymo. We’ve been at it for a while.
SecureWorld News
MAY 19, 2020
I don't take that for granted, and I know it's a rare occurrence. Princeton has a fire station, historical buildings, restaurants, a rescue squad police force, critical infrastructure, libraries, a power plant, sports facilities, concert halls, retail stores, a transportation system, museums, conferences, visiting dignitaries, and more.
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
The Dell Fellows program recognizes engineers for their outstanding and sustained technical achievements, engineering contributions and advancement of the industry. Thank you for taking the time. In some instances, these rules prevent the transportation of data outside a country’s geographic border. Brown : Sure.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2023
In addition to the usual threats–droughts, wildfires, and weather–California almond growers had to contend with wild fluctuations in supply and demand while transportation resources became limited, unreliable, and expensive. Part of that is dependent on our ability to transport it around world. Now, we finally understand why.
GeekWire
MARCH 28, 2024
Lisa Brown brings a unique background to her role as Spokane’s mayor, taking office in January after a tightly contested race. And so I’ve always been all about the things that I think can really help this city and this region achieve better prospects for especially the people who are less well-off.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 23, 2021
Fans take pictures in front of a large living wall that promotes the Climate Pledge and sustainability. The large living wall full of ferns and other plants at Climate Pledge proved to be a popular spot for fans taking pictures. . — Andy Jassy (@ajassy) October 24, 2021. Going green. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).
The Verge
MAY 27, 2021
Bird is out with a new electric scooter that’s designed to be the Santa Monica, California-based company’s most durable and sustainable vehicle yet. We used off the shelf products that didn’t last as long as we’d like them to.”. Image: Bird. That’s not very green to just like get rid of the vehicles before their lifespan has ended.”.
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