Toyota, Uber Announce Plans to Partner
Laura Putre | IndustryWeek
May 24, 2016
Another OEM is getting in on the ride-sharing game: Toyota announced today that it is partnering with Uber to lease vehicles to Uber drivers on a trial basis.
According to a press release, the companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding to “explore collaboration, starting with trials, in the world of ride-sharing in countries where ridesharing is expanding, taking various factors into account such as regulations, business conditions, and customer needs.”
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Research Park master plan will transform economic engine in Huntsville
By Lucy Berry
on May 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM, updated May 24, 2016 at 7:01 AM
Cummings Research Park will look very different under guidelines listed in a new master plan presented today by the Chamber of Commerce in Huntsville.
Nearly nine months after hiring architecture and design firm Perkins+Will (P+W) to lead the master planning process, the Chamber unveiled a new blueprint for CRP, the second largest research park in the U.S. and fourth-largest in the world.
Erin Koshut, who was hired last summer as the director of CRP, said companies are looking for more than a suburban office park.
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Airbus Lands in Alabama
By Arielle Emmett
Air & Space Magazine
June 2016
Natives of Mobile, Alabama, can tell you the town’s old slogan: “A City of Perpetual Potential.” In the latter decades of the 20th century, the words sometimes seemed to carry a ring of disappointment. It’s an old phrase, dating back to when Mobile was a booming Gulf Coast port city.
But examine the history of Mobile’s storied Brookley Air Field-its 9,600-foot runway leading straight to the 31-mile-long, 11-mile-wide Mobile Bay and its five estuaries-and you’ll discover the city was also the birthplace of aviation inventors and dreamers.
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