Here’s the latest rundown of coverage on Austin’s bid for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge.

“Transportation Transformation: How the DOT is driving ‘smart’ change”
By Jerry Weiland and Bianca Wachtel
http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2016_05_13_transportation_transformation_how_dot_is_driving_smart_change

Last March, during the South by Southwest festival, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the seven city finalists for a single $40 million grant as part of the Smart City Challenge, aimed at transforming mobility in the winning city. Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has been working with two of the finalists—Austin, Texas, and Denver, Colorado—on enhancing their mobility systems through market-based approaches. Now RMI is collaborating with them on their final grant proposals. 

“Austin’s collaboration with RMI isn’t just helping us develop innovative mobility solutions,” says Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “RMI is helping us innovate the way our city imagines the possibilities in the first place, which is absolutely critical as we move from an unworkable status quo toward a future that no American city has yet reached.”

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