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 police department's new District 3 headquarters building is equipped with 40 geothermal wells, solar panels that can generate 330 kilowatts of energy, and 29 energy zones that allow for unused systems to be turned off.
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The Florida Department of Transportation has funded research on autonomous waterborne vehicles that could make bridge inspections faster, safer and more efficient.
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The reason we have such congestion is not because we have low-tech vehicles that require excessive braking space -- it’s because we have failed at urban planning.
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This new solar farm can power the equivalent of about 500 homes.
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What if each of the 146 million U.S. electric customers could generate their own electricity?
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Electronic toll systems are credited with enhanced driver safety and traffic flow.
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Cities around the globe are faced with rapid population growth, increasing inequality, pollution and congestion. But Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, knows how it wants to improve and is quickly making the right changes to get there.
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San Francisco has some of the most progressive environmental policies in the country, and it has a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2025.
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Five institutions in Salt Lake City were recognized by the city as part of this year's Project Skyline Mayor’s Challenge Awards.
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The project, which others have estimated could cost more than $10 billion, is still on track to open to the public possibly as early as 2021.
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Several municipalities are forming public-private partnerships to launch smart city initiatives.
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A group of experts is working to design a tool to boost the brightness of clouds to reflect rays of sunlight back into space.
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Mcity, billed as a linchpin to preserve southeast Michigan's dominance in automotive technology's future, is designed to accelerate development of inter-vehicle communication and driverless cars.
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With U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz looking on, Mayor Bill Peduto signed a memorandum of understanding that jump-starts research and develops local sources of energy.
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Their use may not solve all urbanization problems, but can provide a multitude of solutions that can be leveraged by cities
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The light purchase caps a two-year effort, which came to a head last year when a number of Andover residents starting asking why the lights on their streets had been turned off.
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As clean energy catches on, coal is not the commodity it was in decades past.
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The U.S. is one of the world leaders in carbon emissions, but a new report shows a trend toward a sustainable future.
