Solar Roadways announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) contract that will enable them to prototype the first ever Solar Road Panel. The project, which RenewableEnergyWorld.com originally reported on in March 2008, calls for solar road panels that will contain embedded LEDs which “paint” the road lines from beneath to [...]
DOT Awards Research Contract to Solar Roadways (from Solar Power Partners)
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: Energy & Resources · Environment · Funding, Contracts, Grants · News · Transportation Research
Taming Traffic with Your Phone: The Mobile Millennium Project (YouTube)
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
Watch YouTube Video Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. But if the early results from the Mobile Millennium project are any indication, our ability to navigate through that traffic is about to get a lot better. The idea behind Mobile Millennium is simple. Cell phone users download free software that automatically and [...]
Tags: Transportation Research
Zipcar – The best new idea in business (from CNN Money.com)
August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
Zipcar, a car-sharing program, is now available in most major U.S. cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York, and in college towns like Ann Arbor and Chapel Hill, as well as in Britain. While Hertz is jumping in with both feet, U-Haul and Enterprise are still testing the waters. U-Haul’s U Car [...]
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