Today, NBC Bay Area announced the launched of the , a free service for Bay Area commuters that provides up-to-the-second live traffic video on their mobile phones. From the press release: The application for mobile devices gives drivers access to live video from traffic cameras operated by the California Department of Transportation, better known as Caltrans. The

Workers are still trying to restore power to more than half a million homes in the Northeastern U.S. after a powerful winter storm gripped the United States. The week ahead could go into the record booksx as the longest stretch of freezing weather since the arctic blast of December 1990. The US Department of Transportation has

Road warriors tired of having their devices die between charging opportunities have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive: fuel-cells, powered by combustible liquids or gasses, could power a laptop for days between refills. They have been perennially a year or two away, but the Department of Transportation removed a big roadblock this year by amending its hazardous ma...

Liquid fuel cells for mobile electronics have had trouble making it to the mass market, but a recent regulation lift by the U.S. Department of Transportation has given the technology a shot at coming to fruition. Before you start thinking that the last thing we need is a world full of gas-guzzling phones, these fuel

Nokia today launched Mobile Millennium, a public pilot that will collect and study traffic data received from GPS-enabled mobile devices, such as the Nokia N96, Nokia N95 and Nokia E71. As part of its open innovation model, Nokia Research Center is collaborating with UC Berkeley's California Center for Innovative Transportation, the California Department of Transportation and NAVTEQ to design...

New US Federal Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations covering lithium-ion batteries -- which have just come into effect -- will impact both the cell-phone recycling industry and consumers who want to ship their wireless handsets for recycling.

The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VII) seeks the nationwide deployment of a communications infrastructure on roadways and all production vehicles in the United States. It’s in a partnership of automotive OEMs, state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The dedicated 5.9 GHz band is now being tested in a live California

Washington State’s Department of Transportation is pulling the plug on Wi-Fi, two years after installing it at 28 of Washington’s 42 rest areas, reports the Seattle PI. The rest area Wi-Fi cost $6.95 per day, $29.95 per month and a whopping $2.95 for just 15 minutes of use. “We didn’t have a lot of subscribers,”

Engineers have created a way to use cell phone Bluetooth signals to determine how long it takes vehicles and pedestrians to travel from one point to another. The method envisioned by engineers at the Indiana Department of Transportation offers a low-cost solution for everything from the speed of the morning commutes to the sluggishness of airport security lines. "This is incredibly valuable inform

The U.S. Department of Transportation has instituted new rules for carrying spare rechargeable batteries on an airplane. Starting today, these must go in the traveler's carry-on baggage, not in their checked baggage.