Smart Columbus

Columbus city leaders and local researchers are touting the benefits of the Smart City Challenge, an effort to make technological advances in transportation. While there were some gains made in the now-expired five-year effort, there were also some failures.

Smart Columbus has ended its investigation into a February 20 incident in which a self-driving shuttle vehicle in Linden suddenly braked and caused a…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has suspended 16 self-driving shuttles across the country operated by the company EasyMile following an…

The Linden Leap autonomous shuttles will stay off the roads until investigators determine what caused one to stop unexpectedly last Thursday afternoon,…

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and other local leaders on Wednesday celebrated the launch of electric self-driving shuttles in the Linden neighborhood.…

Columbus' Linden neighborhood is about to launch a residential, automated shuttle service which officials say is the first program of its kind in the…

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors come to Columbus on Tuesday to lobby the federal government to pass gun control measures.The mayors, including…

Fully autonomous city buses might be years away, but the coalition People Before Robots is already voicing concerns about safety and jobs. The statewide…

On Cleveland Avenue, the a main corridor of the Linden neighborhood, cars and emergency vehicles whiz through at all hours. But many people in Linden…

An electric vehicle charging station sits at the corner of City Hall and LeVeque Tower Garage in downtown Columbus. This afternoon, it's empty.The station…