{"id":2086,"date":"2020-12-18T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2020-12-18T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:59:24","slug":"2020-recap-smarties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2020-recap-smarties\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Recap: Smarties."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there was a transportation program in 2020, it was a smart something.&nbsp;Smart cities. Smart lamp posts. Smart traffic lights. Bikes that power street lights. Electric Vehicles that could power buildings. Smart roads that generate solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart cars. &nbsp;Smart Concrete that can power EVs or store solar energy. Smart funding choices showed that&nbsp;&nbsp;cities save money by switching to EV fleets, especially their police cars. Fewer&nbsp;repairs. Lower fuel costs. To make incentives for EVs smarter, the UK came up with a green license plate. A very smart and savvy partnership in Asia between ride share and telecoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amount of new technology is transportation is mind boggling. This year we talked about&nbsp;flying pod cars, driverless trucks,&nbsp;hyperloops, electric dirt bikes, solar truck beds, and a&nbsp;University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics at Texas A&amp;M.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a transportation program in 2020, it was a smart something.&nbsp;Smart cities. Smart lamp posts. Smart traffic lights. Bikes that power street lights. Electric Vehicles that could power buildings. Smart roads that generate solar energy. Smart cars. &nbsp;Smart Concrete that can power EVs or store solar energy. Smart funding choices showed that&nbsp;&nbsp;cities save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}