Tag: Kansas City International Airport

KCMO, Avis launch first-in-the-world test lab with 5,000 connected rental cars

By Tommy Felts / November 30, 2017

Accelerating the Smart City initiative’s focus on enabling autonomous vehicles, the Kansas City area is now serving as the laboratory for a large test of thousands of connected rental cars. Avis Budget Group and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, announced Thursday the launch of the “Mobility Lab,” featuring a fleet of 5,000 internet-connected vehicles…

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Pioneering KCI airport vote should help land top talent, startup leaders say

By Tommy Felts / November 8, 2017

Capping a six-year journey fraught with turbulence, delays and political drama, voters overwhelmingly ratified plans to build a new $1.3 billion airport terminal, which would replace the existing Kansas City International Airport (KCI). “Kansas City has never been about being just mediocre,” said Michael Wilson, founder of luxury watch brand Niall and a frequent traveler…

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Tech exec to startups: Give employees late start Tuesday for airport vote

By Tommy Felts / November 3, 2017

Editor’s note: Luke Norris, head of local government solutions for Kansas City-based PayIt, wrote this opinion piece in response to the Nov. 7 single terminal airport ballot questions facing Kansas City, Missouri voters. The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. November 7. It will be a day that a lot of us…

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