Benefits Goals: Efficiency

220 unique benefits found.

By deploying Integrating Mobile Observations (IMO), a road weather management solution, West Des Moines Public Services has reduced its chloride (road salt) applications by 30 percent while maintaining the same level of service, saving about $150,000 annu
Date Posted: 10/22/2020 | Source Date:
Study finds that bike sharing may increase rail transit usage by 15 percent, but decrease bus usage.
Date Posted: 06/24/2020 | Source Date:
Economic benefits assessed in a feasibility study of a Midwest hyperloop system from Chicago to Pittsburgh total approximately $300 billion, with nearly $19 billion of that in direct transportation benefits.
Date Posted: 06/15/2020 | Source Date:
Chicago study finds e-scooters are travel time competitive compared to driving in parking constrained areas.
Date Posted: 05/20/2020 | Source Date:
Southern Nevada has seen an average reduction in incident response times of 12 minutes since using a proprietary, cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) system.
Date Posted: 03/30/2020 | Source Date:
Large-scale, longitudinal study shows that Transportation Network Companies increase congestion and pollution in New York City.
Date Posted: 02/24/2020 | Source Date:
Model shows that deep learning can make traffic signals up to 75 percent more efficient.
Date Posted: 01/27/2020 | Source Date:
Modeling effort finds platooning of light duty vehicles can achieve an optimal fuel savings of 4.5 percent.
Date Posted: 01/14/2020 | Source Date:
Simulation model shows that with only 10 percent Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) market penetration, implementing a CAV-only lane would degrade overall freeway throughput; however, with 25 percent market penetration, throughput would improve.
Date Posted: 12/30/2019 | Source Date:
A modeling effort shows intelligent trip planners can optimize multi-modal travel and reduce peak period transportation related energy consumption by four percent.
Date Posted: 10/18/2019 | Source Date:
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