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Staffing shortages and the lasting shifts to commuter patterns has pumped the brakes on the recovery of transit ridership. Even as gas prices reach record highs across the country, ridership hasn’t seen a large uptick. -
Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Two projects in Georgia and New York are exploring new technologies which embed power generation, computing and more into paving, opening up this right-of-way space to accommodate solar panels and smart city sensors.
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It’s the next wave in the technological revolution that began about 10 years ago, when hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling helped crack open hard shale-rock deposits that operators couldn’t reach before.
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Transit systems in Portland, Ore., and Chicago make fare payment increasingly effortless for travelers.
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In response to what has proved to be an urgent urban crisis, cities are deploying a wide range of digital and data-driven strategies to address vacant and abandoned properties.
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From using data to drive efficiency in code enforcement to crowdsourcing the mapping of properties, cities across the country are making significant strides in the battle against blight.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation will use a self-driving Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV), as a barrier to protect highway workers.
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If it’s not in your car now, it will probably be in your next one.
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Researchers are developing a system that makes sure drivers who go the wrong way are easier to alert and track.
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The city is looking for 1,600 private vehicle volunteers for pilot program to measure safety features along the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.
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A closer look at how Pittsburgh's "Burgh's Eye View" is making a difference in various facets of city government.
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The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and the Smart City Works Actuator are seeking applications from entrepreneurs, startups and companies with emerging products that are designed to make cities smarter, more livable and more resilient.
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Fishers, Ind., will be home to the state's first Internet of Things lab scheduled to open this fall — and the city intends for IoT and technology to bolster and even supplant longtime powerhouse industries.
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The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria's latest edition has new instructions for reporting the emerging sector of autonomous vehicles.
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The few projects that have studied mileage-based usage taxes have been in California, Oregon and Washington. This will be the first East Coast study.
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The hope is that the two-month test of smart city tech is successful and can be made available to other cities in the state.
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The tech promises to determine where hazardous flooding conditions exist down to within inches.
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Google spinoff Waymo has a new patent for developing a car that loses its rigidity during a crash, lessening the impact.
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Bellevue, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Newport News, Va.; and Montgomery County, Md., use their Global City Teams Challenge grant awards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to come up with smart tech systems that can be easily replicated.
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The ideas aim to improve traffic flow and infrastructure, even making it easier to find parking by using a smartphone app, among others.
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