The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $160 million in new grant funding for transportation technology projects.

Colorado awarded contracts to two connected-vehicle companies, furthering an initiative aimed at reducing congestion and improving safety.

Transportation officials in Utah said vehicles that can communicate with roadside infrastructure — and receive warnings from the cloud — could soon reduce roadway deaths.

The Smart Columbus regional partnership in Ohio has announced three new pilot projects to reduce traffic congestion and improve access to transportation options.

A new study led by a Georgia Tech professor imagines a nightmare scenario in which hackers control enough internet-connected vehicles to shut down an entire city.

Commentary: Jordan Davis, a director at the Columbus Partnership, shares how the Ohio capital is making the most of its $570 million experiment.

The facility, called SMARTCenter, is the latest addition to the state's investment in autonomous and connected vehicle research.

Officials say they'll work with Panasonic to advance from Utah's current time-saving and efficiency techniques onto roadway technologies that can save lives.

As municipal devices tuck away trillions of terabytes of data, smart-city experts say they don't have the workforce or infrastructure to parse the information.

The state wants a way to get the most out of its next-generation transportation efforts.