Citing an enormous potential to reduce crashes on U.S. roadways, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposed rule today that would advance the deployment of connected vehicle technologies throughout the U.S. light vehicle fleet. 

Siemens and NXP Semiconductors recently hosted live connected vehicle (CV) demonstrations in downtown Tampa in conjunction with the Florida Autonomous Vehicle Summit. Participants were driven around the half-mile course to experience how connected vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technologies work in a real-world setting. 

In due time, vehicles will be able to share data not only with each other (vehicle-to-vehicle, V2V), but with the local infrastructure (V2I), as well. It’s still a little bit sci-fi at the moment, but Panasonic teamed up with the State of Colorado to test out its system on a real highway.

We got a look into the future today in Tampa and if we’re to believe what we’re told, Tampa’s future will, surprisingly, have less traffic than today.

Connected vehicles could soon be a thing on Bay area roads. Siemens engineering company is using Tampa as a test city.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike could communicate directly to cars and trucks someday with a new communications system already in the works.

Connecting your vehicle to share information with other Ann Arbor cars could lead to a financial boost for the Ann Arbor school of your choice.

When construction on the Jane Addams Tollway (I-90) wraps up, motorists will sigh with relief and smile in anticipation of easy, breezy commutes.

Despite losing the federal Smart Cities Challenge for $50 million this summer, Pittsburgh and two universities are soldiering on with their related projects.

After five days of technical tours, demonstrations, exhibitions, plenary sessions and executive forums, the 23rd ITS World Congress has come to a close, with Melbourne having played host to 11,496 delegates from 73 countries, who discussed public policy, innovation, technology, and advancements in the transport technology space.

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) will establish an Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT) to serve as a critical resource for the department in framing federal policy for the continued development and deployment of automated transportation.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $65 million in grants to several cities nationwide, including Dallas, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, to advance transportation technologies.

At Monday’s Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting, held at Port Manatee, members took a virtual ride through the challenges, benefits and future transport via autonomous/connected vehicles. 

Last week, the CEO of Tesla Motors announced plans to produce, by the end of next year, a car that can drive itself across country and also said that his company has begun equipping all new vehicles with self-driving hardware. It’s an aggressive and optimistic effort, especially given the many obstacles in the way of realizing autonomous cars, including today’s technology, safety regulations, cost to buyers, public interest and laws. We believe it will take another decade or two — or more — before such cars are on the roadways in significant numbers.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $6 million grant to Dublin, Marysville and Union County to install technology to improve travel along Route 33.