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New Technologies Transform Transportation Management

Forrester IT

TMS used to streamline operations and reduce logistics costs. But in its journey to the cloud TMS embedded AI, added mobile geolocation. It shifted focus from cost to customer and employee experience. Age of the Customer

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A match made in transportation heaven: AI and self-driving cars

Dataconomy

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the way we drive and transport goods and people. Transportation & Logistics Artificial Intelligence Industry AI artificial intelligence Featured Self-Driving Cars

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Fortinet Transportation and Logistics Cybersecurity Solution

Tech Republic Security

Transportation and logistics companies are also implementing omnichannel marketing and engagement techniques to offer innovative services and improve customer experiences. Fortinet is committed to providing cybersecurity solutions for the transportation and logistics industry. The post Fortinet Transportation and Logistics Cybersecurity Solution appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Volkswagen Partners With Azure To Drive Transportation Innovations

Forrester IT

Volkswagen’s recent announcement to build its automotive cloud platform on Microsoft Azure is yet another example of the types of tech-driven innovation efforts transportation leaders are taking to position themselves as customer experience leaders.

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New Tech: Transportation Technology And The Self-Driving Economy

Forrester IT

Less than a year ago, my colleague Laura Koetzle and I published a report on the transformative effects of autonomous vehicles on the global economy. While conducting the research in the year leading up to that publication, the news cycles were sparsely populated (at best) with stories of the marvel of self-driving cars. We are […

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Airborne cars to transform Dubai’s public transportation

Computer Weekly

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority is readying the launch of autonomous aerial vehicles in July this year

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How to build the transportation hub of the future in 5 days

Venture Beast

AI Business DataDecisionMakers Enterprise technology Transportation autonomous cars autonomous transport autonomous trucks autonomous vehicle autonomous vehicles category-/Business & Industrial/Transportation & Logistics GPS infrastructure transportation

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San Francisco transport system hit by ransomware attack

Computer Weekly

San Francisco's transport agency appears to be the latest target of cyber criminals using encryption malware to hold organisations to ransom

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Transport Scotland turns to IoT mapping to keep roads clear in cold snap

Computer Weekly

Scottish transport authority is using Esri’s location technology to keep tabs on its gritters in icy weather

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Elon Musk's Neuralink accused of unsafely transporting infected material

TechSpot

Neuralink is planning to start its first human trails soon, and Elon Musk has said the brain-to-machine interface made by his company will let people stream music directly into their grey matter.

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Plus’s Level 4 autonomous trucking technology speeds transition to sustainable commercial transport

Venture Beast

AI Transportation VB Home Page AI and autonomous vehicles autonomous shipping autonomous trucking autonomous trucks category-/Business & Industrial/Transportation & Logistics/Freight & Trucking Plus autonomous trucks Plus.ai

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5 Ways Edge Tech is Transforming Travel and Transportation

Information Week

If you are wondering about the role of edge technologies, consider how they help companies and individuals in the travel and transportation sectors

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Loadsmart raises $90 million for AI that matches shippers with truck transportation

Venture Beast

Loadsmart, a startup deploying AI that matches shippers with truck transportation, has raised $90 million in fresh capital. Read More.

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Airbus confirms software errors/configuration brought down A400M transport plane

CTOvision

The Register is reporting that badly configured software, installed incorrectly, is responsible for the crash of an Airbus A400M transport plane. The post Airbus confirms software errors/configuration brought down A400M transport plane appeared first on CTOvision.com. Engine control software, installed wrong, was to blame. The A400M crashed just after takeoff on its first real production test flight, 9 May near Seville's San Pablo Airport, killing four.

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Uber aims for 100% zero-emission transport by 2040

Venture Beast

Business Entrepreneur Mobile Transportation category-/Travel Dara Khosrowshahi Uber Uber GreenUber has today announced several new commitments, initiatives, and product expansions designed to address climate change. Read More.

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Micromobility : What does it mean for the future of transportation?

Dataconomy

How will micromobility co-exist with the traditional models of transportation? The post Micromobility : What does it mean for the future of transportation? Featured Internet of Things Startups Tech Trends Transportation & Logistics german Autolabs Lime micromobility Mobility smart mobility Transportation volkswagenHow will micromobility change the way we travel from point “A” to “B”?

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Big data means big risk, Swedish Transport Agency leak shows

Computer Weekly

The Swedish Transport Agency exposed sensitive information by transferring its databases to a third party cloud provider without following data protection procedures

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Seattle’s new transportation director on electric vehicles, remote work, company shuttles, and more

GeekWire

Greg Spotts, the new director of Seattle’s Department of Transportation. Since moving from Los Angeles to take the helm of Seattle’s Department of Transportation in September, Greg Spotts has been busy learning about his new home.

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Uber acquires Routematch to make public transport ‘more accessible’

Venture Beast

Business Cloud Commerce Dev Entrepreneur Mobile Transportation category-/Business & Industrial/Transportation & Logistics category-/Travel/Bus & Rail Routematch UberUber has acquired Routematch, an Atlanta-based company that provides technology services to transit agencies.

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Transport researchers get 2PB of Scality object storage

Computer Weekly

Transport Systems Catapult retires ageing NetApp filers with 2PB of Scality object storage in a £1.5m project that future proofs the organisation with built-in DR

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What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

Network World

Despite the goal of keeping Web communications private, flaws in the design and implementation of Transport Layer Security have led to breaches, but the latest version – TLS 1.3 – is an overhaul that strengthens and streamlines the crypto protocol.

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Transport Research Lab to run £13m autonomous vehicle trials in London

Computer Weekly

A consortium led by the Transport Research Lab has been awarded government funding to run connected and autonomous vehicle tests in the capital

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Cubic Transportation licenses TfL’s contactless payment system

Computer Weekly

Cubic Transportation plans to use London's payments system to develop contactless solutions for transport around the world

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This tech-fueled service will provide bus transportation for Seattle Public Schools

GeekWire

Students using Zum transportation tap into rides using RFID-enabled passes. Narayen began working on the idea for Zum in 2015 after facing transportation challenges for her own two children. ” Civic Seattle Public Schools Transportation

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Seattle’s clean transportation blueprint spells out ambitious goals for electrification and habit shifts

GeekWire

The “Clean Transportation Electrification Blueprint” was compiled by representatives from multiple City departments, including the Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle City Light, the Office of Sustainability & Environment and others.

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Uber and Lyft just scored a huge federal transportation contract

The Verge

The US government awarded a big transportation contract to Uber and Lyft this week, authorizing the ride-hailing companies to provide transportation to up to 4 million federal employees and their families. Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images.

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Lyft launches health care transportation program

The Verge

Non-emergency medical transportation is estimated to be a $3 billion market. Transportation is a major barrier to health care , and millions of people each year put off medical appointments because they don’t have a way to get to them. Uber has a similar medical transportation program.

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On-demand car rental service Kyte brings another transportation option to Seattle

GeekWire

Startups Transportation Kyte rental carsOn-demand car rental service Kyte launched in Seattle on Friday. Kyte Photo). Kyte , an on-demand car rental service, launched in Seattle on Friday. The service delivers rental cars directly to drivers.

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IoT Revolution: 5 Ways the Internet of Things Will Change Transportation

CTOvision

Read Taylor Donovan Barnett explain how the Internet of Things will change transportation on Interesting Engineering : Data influences every aspect of your life. If not completely already, the technological landscape will be completely data-centric in the near future. The device you are reading this article on probably collects your data to optimize your user experience. Or, […]. CTO News

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How Two Key U.S. Departments Could Decarbonize Transportation

Gizmodo

the transportation system must be overhauled in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. That means presumptive Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a big task ahead of him. As the largest greenhouse-gas emitting sector in the U.S.,

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6 questions with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Vox

Recode spoke with the secretary of transportation about winning over rural drivers and surmounting other roadblocks to the EV transition. Pete Buttigieg, surrounded by EVs and chargers, speaks outside of the Transportation Department on October 20, 2021. Christina Animashaun/Vox.

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The Future of Transportation Is Electric

HID Global

Approximately 26 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, and HID's RFID technology provides secure end-to-end encryption to power secure user credentials

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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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Health savings account custodian HealthEquity acquires Seattle transportation startup Luum

GeekWire

Luum CEO Sohier Hall. Luum Photo). HealthEquity , a publicly-traded administrator of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), has acquired Luum , a Seattle startup that helps employers manage commute benefits for their workers.

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Rapid rail for Cascadia? B.C., Washington and Oregon sign pact on high-speed transportation

GeekWire

Washington, Oregon and British Columbia agreed to work together to bring bullet trains or other forms of ultra-high-speed ground transportation to connect the major population centers of the Cascadia region. BigStock Photo / Taras Rudenko.

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Transportation software company Inrix, which is profitable and nearly went public, raises $10M

GeekWire

based transportation software and data provider founded in 2004, has raised $10 million from investors, less than a year after the company nearly went public. But it also opened up an opportunity as transportation changed so quickly with the pandemic and the rise of remote work.

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25 Years Ago, Star Trek: Voyager Tackled One of Its Most Infamous Transporter Questions

Gizmodo

Star Trek ’s world raises a lot of ethical questions —but its transporter technology has always been one that strikes at some of the most existential.

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Top Reasons Why Unicycle Transporters are Awesome

IT Toolbox

Going around the city has never been more fun and adventurous with the self balancing transporter. Know its features and consider having one today

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Utilizing AI to improve mass transit

Venture Beast

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Google’s Transporter Network uses minimal data to teach robots to stack blocks

Venture Beast

Google researchers propose Transporter Networks, AI models that learn from few examples to complete robot grasping tasks. AI Big Data Business Dev Mobile ai artificial intelligence category-/Science/Engineering & Technology/Robotics machine learning Transporter NetworksRead More.

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Segway is retiring its iconic scooter that failed to revolutionize personal transportation

TechSpot

Known as the Segway Human Transporter, the two-wheeled self-balancing personal transporter felt as if it had been pulled straight of out of a sci-fi novel when it debuted in late 2001.

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Amazon invests in startup producing ‘net-zero carbon fuels’ for transportation

GeekWire

based startup that is developing what it describes as “net-zero carbon fuels” that can be used in transportation. An Amazon Prime truck in downtown Seattle near Amazon HQ. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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Abu Dhabi transport department uses drones to improve traffic flows

Computer Weekly

Data collected by live video stream from drones is analysed at control centre to help alleviate traffic jams and other issues