FutureStructure Infrastructure
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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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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The program, which is based on models deployed in Chicago and New York, will begin in Santa Monica and Venice deploying 500 bikes.
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The company’s new “Community Compact” is the first step in ensuring a close relationship between the home-sharing company and communities around the world.
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A recent study says cities would recoup major investments in renewable energy through cost savings.
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The measures are meant to create a more energy efficient, aesthetically pleasing and pedestrian friendly road in upstate New York.
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The Lone Star State is pushing against federal efforts to cut carbon emissions, while simultaneously building itself up as an example of a leader in clean power and other greenhouse gas-reducing systems.
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Studies have shown that an even larger tax credit might be necessary to make up for the higher cost of electric vehicles, especially with gasoline’s current low price.
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The state's new building code is set to be released in Spring of 2016, and will include several new regulations dealing with conserving energy and being more sturdy.
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Designers of the Tucannon River Wind Farm bought local materials, minimized concrete use and chose turbine locations carefully in order to reduce the project's impact.
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Currently, parking spaces, roads and highways take up 30 to 60 percent of urban land in the United States, but this could drastically change if ride-sharing continues to grow.
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A Japanese-backed effort to build a Dallas-Houston bullet train may just be the start of an international rail play in Texas. Companies from France and China with experience building and running high-speed rail are also vying to get a piece of potential rail projects in the state.
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According to a UCLA study, consumers have been driven to buy hybrid and electric vehicles due to the tax breaks and ability to use the carpool lane.
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Of the 288 lights in the city, 254 are newer models that communicate with the “nerve center” within the Department of Transportation.
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The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety released the mobile app in an effort to better serve the community and learn about potential safety hazards.
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Florida Rep. John Mica has proposed that roads and highways be outfitted with sensors that gauge traffic and communicate with stop lights instead of the lights being on an automatic timer.
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Trident Winds has begun its process to build 100 floating turbines 15 miles off the San Luis Obispo County shoreline that would generate enough power for 300,000 homes.
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Because of the vast size and diverse communities that inhabit the Bay Area, some believe that distinct municipal governments are unsuited to tackle the inter-regional problems that emerge.
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Electronics manufacturers say a patchwork of state laws makes it difficult to comply with electronics recycling standards.
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Tax credits and lower production costs are making solar power a lot more attractive to businesses as a cost-cutting measure.
