Tel Aviv pilots ‘electric road’ in attempt to charge public busses on the fly

Oct16
by on October 16, 2020 at 9:00 am
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Tel Aviv has launched a pilot project using under-road electric infrastructure to charge public buses. Vehicles are charged dynamically as they travel along the route. ​In partnership with electric road systems company ElectReon and Dan Bus Company, the trial will run on 600 metres of electrified road along a two-kilometre route between Tel Aviv University Railway Station and Klatzkin Terminal in Ramat Aviv. The technology uses copper coils embedded under roads and connected to the electricity grid, along with receivers installed under vehicles. Following the completion of tests and integration of the technology – expected to take around two months…

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Adaptive traffic lights trial aims to cut fuel consumption by 20%

Oct15
by on October 15, 2020 at 8:42 am
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga’s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress has been awarded a US$1.89 million grant from the US Department of Energy for a research project to create a new model for traffic intersections that reduces energy consumption. Along with partners including the University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory…

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Why cities must narrow car lanes to make room for pedestrians

Oct14
by on October 14, 2020 at 8:38 am
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Close your eyes and imagine a typical city street. What do you see? For most of us it’s a variation of a familiar scene: two lanes of automobile traffic most likely flanked by a row of densely parked cars on either side. Confined to the periphery, narrow sidewalks accommodate the vast majority of human activity performed by pedestrians, joggers, tourists, commuters, parents, pet owners, municipal workers, and street vendors. These are the city streets much of the world has come to know and accept over the past 100 years as urban living has progressively become defined by smog, combustion engines…

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