Mobility

Rural areas vie for mobility grants

A grant program run by the U.S. Department of Transportation could help expand the market for autonomous shuttles such as the ones on this Navya assembly line in Saline, Mich. (PETE BIGELOW)
April 20, 2019 04:00 AM

A speck on the map, Hillsboro, population 1,609, is a farming community that sits along Interstate 29 in the far eastern fringes of North Dakota. It is, at once, in the middle of nowhere and at the nexus of forces reshaping transportation.

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