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Bonjour Electreon, an Israeli startup working on roadways that charge EVs. As Stefan Tongur, Electreon’s VP of U.S. business development, says “It’s not just about the technology. It’s about, how does the technology shift impact business models? ” It’s also about stepping out of the gas station model and into thinking differently to charge EVs.
WSJ | Roads That Charge While You Drive: Can This Fuel a Future for EVs?
There isn’t data on transportation safety and disabled persons. “A 2015 Georgetown University study, one of the few of its kind available, found that 528 pedestrians using wheelchairs were killed in traffic collisions between 2006 and 2012.”
Governing | Disabled People Are Dying in America’s Crosswalks. We Need to Protect Them.
A pilot program testing a pay as you go transportation funding mechanism is coming to Kansas. What makes this interesting? 0.13% of Kansas’ vehicles are hybrid or electric. The pay as you drive program may replace the gas tax in Kansas which was last updated in 2003. While multiple states have pay as you drive pilots only Oregon, Utah, and Virginia have implemented a pay as you drive fee system.
Georgia is set to create new lawsuit limits for cases involving large truck accidents. SB 426 (2024 | GA) seeks to lower insurance rates for the trucking industry by allowing for lawsuits against the insurer only if the company or driver cannot be located or if the trucking company has filed for bankruptcy protection.
US News | Lawsuits Against Insurers After Truck Crashes Limited by Georgia Legislature
WRDW | Legislature votes to limit Ga. lawsuits over truck crashes
Meet concrete made from sugar cane. The brains behind the product say this concrete utilizes “20% less steel and emits 20 times less carbon than concrete bricks.” @dw_environment
Mexico has overtaken China as the United States largest trading partner. Mexico over took China with a 5% increase in trade to a total trade value of $475 Billion. One of the reasons why this increase in trade with Mexico is that manufacturers are working to locate closer to home. Hello I-35 and trains- we see you. @worldeconomicforum
$3.3 billion in grants are available for communities where highway projects have split communities. Grant recipients include Austin, TX; Atlanta; Dallas; Philadelphia; Syracuse, NY; Jacksonville, Florida; and Portland, Ore. It is said that mix of projects that have been awarded funding indicates that the Biden administration is focusing on fine-tuning existing infrastructure.
Route Fifty | $3.3B in federal grants announced for communities split apart by highways
Some say Republican opposition to transit and transportation policies may be more about urban-rural transportation spending than partisanship. Look no further than Beth Osborne, director of the advocacy group Transportation for America, who says of transportation spending, ““It’s a state-local split, and it’s often a rural-urban split.”
Texas Attorney General Opinion KP 0458 says that a deputy sheriff in Aransas County has authority to weigh a vehicle if the deputy has “reason to believe” a specific vehicle’s weight is unlawful. However, stopping and weighing all vehicles is not permitted by a deputy sheriff.
MIT Sloan School has mapped various industries AI use. For the transportation industry, AI use is at about 5% of the industry with 2% using AI intensely. @MIT Sloan
MIT Sloan School | The who, what, and where of AI adoption in America