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Bird To Pull Scooters From Florida Streets, Ahead Of Hurricane

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Bird joins other scooter and transportation companies like Lime and Uber who are having to remove those scooters from the streets as Hurricane Dorian is expected to landfall somewhere in Florida. Dorian is now expected to be a Category 4 storm with landfall somewhere on Florida's Eastern coast, although forecasts are still unsure.

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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, NewCities Dangle $15K To Startups

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The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , and partner NewCities Foundation said on Monday that they will award $15,000, plus other prizes, to a startup developing technology in the zero emissions transportation and shared mobility area.

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Follow the Leader | California Regulators Approve Transportation Ridesharing Companies

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The CPUC’s decision, which was unanimous, boils down to creating a new transportation category called “transportation network companies” in order to oversee rideshare companies – an idea put forward last July by Commission President Michael Peevey. It’s the first such decision in the U.S.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports.

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NASA moves forward with 17 companies as part of bid to transform urban aerial transportation

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The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. Partnerships for the challenge fall into three categories: Developmental Flight Testing: These are industry partners providing vehicles that will fly in the challenge. It is designed to allow U.S.

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LA Transportation Agency Dangles Prizes For Software Developers

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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has quitely launched a major contest looking to spur development of mobile application that utilize information about the Los Angeles area's public transit. The top prizes are worth $2,000 each.

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Southern California Teams Named Cleantech Open Semifinalists

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In the Renewable Energy category, Pasadena-based Nascent Solar Technologies and Viresco Energy of Riverside were recognized; in Smart Power, Monterey Park-based Extreme Capacitor was a semifinalist.