DFW Airport, Surrounding Cities Test Drive Autonomous Vehicles

Arlington TX

23 March, 2022

4:19 PM

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By Seth Bodine, Fort Worth Report March 22, 2022 Officials at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport want autonomous cars to drive and park themselves after the vehicle's owner pulls up to the terminal. The airport's innovation team is using $1.5 million to start testing how to do that. The funding comes after the North Central Texas Council of Governments Regional Transportation Council approved on March 15 a second round of projects across North Texas to experiment on how automated vehicles could work in North Texas. Paul Puopolo, the executive vice president of innovation at the DFW International Airport, said the tests fit into the airport team's focus on efficient mobility throughout the airport, including the dropoff curb and parking. Puopolo said this project will help the airport prepare for the new technology. "Autonomous vehicles are here," Puopolo said. "It's an inflection point in the market. So we need to start thinking about how we can work with them, manage them and also leverage them for our own internal use." To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.