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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A national nonprofit is bringing together community partners, volunteers and job trainees to implement solar power and energy efficiency for low-income families.
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The bill would make it easier for electricity customers to install solar or other renewable energy systems on their properties.
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Municipalities that deploy sensors in partnership with tech companies are confronted with a host of ethical questions, and must decide which behavior is suitable to track and whether data should be sold to marketers.
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Most states have laws to protect bikers from cars, but they're hard to enforce. One city is testing a new device that makes it easier.
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Florida already has reciprocal deals with Georgia and North Carolina that allow the electronic devices to be accepted on their toll roads.
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Even if an agreement is reached at this year’s Paris climate summit, national policy changes won’t kick in until 2020. But cities are ready to fill this gap.
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The City Council voted to modify its electric aggregation agreement to achieve the equivalent of drawing its electricity solely from renewable sources.
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By cutting out the middlemen, our pension funds are harnessing the power of their capital.
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The $400 million energy project will start generating electricity for Amazon’s data centers in late 2016.
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A 2,100-acre stadium will be used to test technologies like self-driving vehicles, interconnected vehicles and smart city infrastructure.
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The flight was cancelled after engineering company Siemens claimed a loan agreement for the plane's motor did not cover flights over water and asked for the motor to be returned.
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The unique "mono-bucket" foundation would replace expensive steel piles in an 18-megawatt wind turbine venture, which has the support of Erie County, Pa., government.
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When the city of Lancaster took on the challenge of creating a sustainable net-zero energy community, its true purpose ran much deeper: Establish long-term partnerships, devise win-win revenue streams and create a self-support infrastructure that will be a template for other communities far into the future.
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The first stage of funding will go toward studies that will assess the feasibility of launching microgrids.
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The university is now gunning for the designation as frontier for the Internet of Things by turning its Oakland campus into a living lab.
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Instead of thousands of gallons of water spurting out of hydrants to be swallowed up by nearby storm drains, the 15-minute process lets out just a dribble of water that district workers use to test quality.
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Tired of waiting for federal transportation dollars, eight states either hiked gas taxes or scaled back a planned cut to bring in more money.
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As the technology continues to move forward, it raises important questions for governments about how they will prepare for and regulate high-tech vehicles.
