Dan Zukowski

1 week ago | smartcitiesdive.com | Dan Zukowski

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Archer Aviation today disclosed its plans for an air taxi network serving the New York City region’s major airports from Manhattan helipads using electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

1 week ago | smartcitiesdive.com | Dan Zukowski

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With increasing numbers of pedestrian deaths and injuries at railroad grade crossings, the Government Accountability Office issued a report this month on how states can use federal funding to reduce such accidents and how the Federal Highway Administration can better help state officials. In 2023, 89 pedestrians were killed at public railroad-highway grade crossings, according to the GAO report, an increase of 31% over 2014.

2 weeks ago | smartcitiesdive.com | Dan Zukowski

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A love for the Chicago Cubs may have indirectly led to Monica Tibbits-Nutt becoming Massachusetts’ top transportation official. As a child, Tibbits-Nutt and her Cubs-loving family lived in the 300-person town of Topeka, Indiana. To get to Wrigley Field, they rode the South Shore Line, an electric interurban railway built in the 1900s.

3 weeks ago | utilitydive.com | Dan Zukowski

As U.S. transit agencies increasingly order buses powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, some of these same agencies are beginning to look at trains that use similar technologies. Stadler, an international train manufacturer, already has trains in testing and on order in two states, while other manufacturers of such trains operating in Canada and Europe are eyeing U.S. opportunities, too.

3 weeks ago | smartcitiesdive.com | Dan Zukowski

An article from Dive Brief The program for income-qualified residents offers hourly rental of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Published March 28, 2025 Sacramento, California, is expanding its community car-sharing program to three new public sites as part of the city’s EV Blueprint. simonkr via Getty Images Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated.