FutureStructure Data
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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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En-ROADS, a newly developed climate predicting tool, could help cities test whether (and how much) specific energy policies can slow global warming.
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A team of researchers from the University of Memphis developed a method to mine large amounts of data from wearable sensors to monitor stress levels and provide health information to users.
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The city will get more than $100 million in government and private-sector money to implement high-tech, futuristic transportation ideas.
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A new collection of data from all of the country’s major transit systems sheds light on important trends.
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A project out of Seattle is looking to make the daily grind easier for the people who have a tougher time moving about ever-changing cities.
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GIS can help extend the reach and visibility of IoT data.
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ATVs aren't built for roads, but more places are making it legal for them to drive alongside other vehicles anyway.
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The city has decided to sell general obligation bonds to offset the acquisition of smart meters.
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Researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that planners can improve the quality of urban life.
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The wave sensors and cameras will be used to detect rip currents and to provide input into near real-time surf zone modeling of the currents to give warning of when they are the strongest so lake goers don't get stranded in the water.
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The World Cities Report 2016 offers a definitive feast of urban trend analysis. Here are 8 key issues addressed in the report.
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Water use can be more efficient, speakers at a symposium in California said May 23 — not just in terms of conservation, but in terms of doing more work for society.
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A data center built by Nautilus Technologies would pump water from the Stockton Deep Water Channel at a maximum rate of 3,000 to 4,500 gallons per minute and would re-enter the channel a negligible 4 degrees hotter.
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Philadelphia's former mayor explains the steps his city took to make effective use of data and bring it to bear on performance.
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After Nevada reduced subsidies for solar users, many homeowners and solar providers protested the decision through aggressive measures. A new strategy is being implemented to compromise and work toward a viable solution.
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To tackle the problem of vacant properties, Memphis is acknowledging that it needs help.
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Participants will probe 500 data sets from the city and hackathon partners in hopes of creating technology to help the city achieve the goal of curbing greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2030.
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NextEnergy is calling for solutions to urban problems, just as urban governments are looking for them.
