From STL Today article here:
US DOT Smart City Challenge Info: https://www.transportation.gov/smartcityThe city (STL) is vying to win the Smart City Challenge, in which the U.S. Department of Transportation is offering for the first time up to $40 million to implement bold, data-driven ideas that make transportation safer, easier, and more reliable....
Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s company Vulcan Inc. will award up to $10 million for electric vehicles and funding ways to reduce carbon emissions. And Mobileye, a car technology company, will outfit the fleet of the winning city’s public bus system with driver-assistance safety technology....
And, among other projects, it would use the money to begin a bike-share program with 500 bikes...
The five finalists will be announced at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, on March 12. Each finalist city will get $100,000 to hone their proposals and develop applications for the final selection process, which is set for June.
