Sep 3, 2019

Mobility & Transportation - Issue #51

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Mobility & Transportation

Insight into all things transportation and mobility, covering driverless vehicles, trends in public transportation, the rise of cycling, ride- and car-share, smart city developments, ITS, and more.

A Practical Guide To Mobility Data Sharing

Cities are now able to access massive amounts of data from new mobility services for policy and planning.

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Chinese firm unveils electric scooters that can drive themselves to charging stations

China’s Ninebot has unveiled new electric scooters which can autonomously drive themselves to charging points.

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Waymo releases a self-driving open data set for free use by the research community

Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new Open Data Set it’s making available for the purposes of research. The data set isn’t for commercial use, but its definition of “research” is fairly broad, and includes researchers at other companies as well as academics. The data set is “one […]

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Data Annotation: The Billion Dollar Business Behind AI Breakthroughs

When Lei Wang became a data annotator two years ago her job was fairly simple: Identifying people’s gender in images. But since then Wang has noticed increasing complexity in the tasks she is…

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Mapping the impact of dockless vehicles

In this weekly round-up post, Smart Cities Dive will update our interactive map to reflect the cities that are welcoming (or opposing) the growing shared mobility phenomenon, and will highlight the top dockless headlines from across the country.

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Real-life trials on interoperability across EU

Project partner ABB has given an update on the EU project ASSURED for the development of new fast-charging solutions for e-vehicles: The next phase of the project will focus on interoperability for electric buses and trucks.

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Automakers and state agree on ZEV alternative to get electric vehicles to Colorado faster – The Colorado Sun

Zero emission vehicle mandate still being considered, but this unusual consensus means most automakers now support adoption of controversial standard

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BRAKE TIME: Autonomous Vehicle Testing Endangers Pedestrians

An Uber whistleblower worries there’s too much self-driving vehicle testing on public streets which threatens pedestrians and other motorists.

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Domino's Pizza to roll out e-bike deliveries

Domino’s plans to roll out hundreds of e-bikes for delivering their pizzas in partnership with Rad Power Bikes across company-owned stores throughout Miami, Salt Lake City, Baltimore and Houston later this year.

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