Connected Transportation News

Smart vehicles to lead massive rise in IoT data traffic

Data traffic from cellular IoT connections is expected to rise to 218.6 exabytes (Ebyte) by 2035, according to Omdia. This increase is fuelled by a growing demand for data [...]

Uber expands use of AWS infrastructure and AI

Ride-hailing giant Uber is expanding its infrastructure and AI capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Uber is using AWS Graviton instances to support more of its trip serving zones, [...]

Oracle AI aids maintenance on Singapore MRT

Singapore’s public transport provider SMRT is working on a pilot project using Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and autonomous AI database to improve rail maintenance through its Jarvis intelligent data AI [...]

Karsan autonomous bus transports tourists in ski resort

Turkish bus maker Karsan’s autonomous e-Atak has become one of the first autonomous public transportation applications in ski tourism. As part of the Sälen-Idre Autonomous Public Transportation Project (Sikta) [...]

Dubai vertiport paves way for air taxi service this year

Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) and Skyports have completed the world’s first commercial vertiport by Dubai International Airport, and it is now ready to handle electric vertical take-off [...]

Seoul adds early-morning autonomous bus service

After nearly 30,000 people used the first two autonomous bus routes, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has introduced an additional early-morning route. This departs 30 minutes earlier than the first [...]

Taiwan smart road tolling moves to Thailand

Taiwan’s smart road tolling technology is being used in Thailand on its AI-powered M81 motorway. Sightings of electronic toll collection (ETC) gantries resembling those used on Taiwan’s freeways have [...]

OculloSpace digital twins aid shipping in Singapore

Singapore-based space education and innovation company OculloSpace is working with US firm Niantic Spatial to deliver digital-twin technology to the maritime industry across south-east Asia. Through this collaboration, OculloSpace [...]

Arbor AI monitors baggage at airports

Taiwanese firm Arbor Technology worked with US companies DeepX and MemryX to develop an AI-powered baggage monitoring system for airports. This brings real-time intelligence to airport operations through edge [...]

Baidu Apollo Go driverless ride-hailing in Dubai

Baidu’s autonomous ride-hailing platform, Apollo Go, has launched a fully driverless commercial service in Dubai. The service is operated in partnership with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and [...]

Hitachi Rail acquires Clever for digital mobility

Hitachi Rail is acquiring Clever Devices, a US-based provider of intelligent transportation systems. The acquisition will strengthen Hitachi Rail’s presence in North America and expand its footprint into multimodal [...]

Pony AI announces PonyWorld 2.0 world model

Pony AI has launched PonyWorld 2.0, an upgraded world model for training its autonomous driving stack. The system is designed to diagnose its own weaknesses and guide targeted data [...]