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 grant, from the New York Power Authority, will allow the city to begin work on replacing all streetlights with energy-efficient, connected models. The change is expected to save $3 million annually.
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Officials say positive train controls, which automatically slow a train traveling too fast, could have prevented the accident that killed two Amtrak employees and injured nearly 100 others.
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As part of Pacific Power’s move away from standard metering systems, 590,000 smart meters will be deployed across the state. Utility officials say the transition will mean more efficient monitoring and better data collection.
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In an unusual twist, environmentalists and fossil fuel corporations have found themselves on the same side against a proposed long-distance power line that would transport hydropower from Canada to Massachusetts.
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Since 2008, transit agencies across the country have been pushing to meet a mandate from federal authorities to implement control systems to prevent crashes. Many failed to meet the deadline, but Sound Transit did not.
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The city will use $5.5 million of the federal grant to update 224 intersections to reduce crash rates. Other funds will go to systems that adjust traffic signals to reduce the number of cars crossing on yellow lights.
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City officials are in the process of considering a grant from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago that would pay 50 percent of construction costs to convert an old parking garage to a green facility.
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Lima city leaders met with Ohio Department of Transportation to ask one very specific question: How can DriveOhio, the state's tech initiative for traffic, help with congestion caused by trains?
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One of the capital city’s most active corridors will soon be home to a nine-block living laboratory, complete with Wi-Fi, smart streetlights and a host of other tech-laden features.
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The Otay Water District has designs on using two camera-equipped drones to inspect and survey the topography of its facilities, a move that will take personnel out of potentially dangerous situations.
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The federal deadline for Metro-North railroad to fully install Positive Train Control has passed without an operational system, but the railroad technically complied with the law mandating its installation.
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At the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District in western Riverside County, Calif., smart meters throughout its coverage area and an upgraded ERP system are transforming how they operate.
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Experts discussed various emerging transportation opportunities during a Department of Transportation-hosted summit in Raleigh Jan. 9.
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Though the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission voted in favor of minor changes to requirements that ensure turbines meet noise standards, they shot down a proposal that would have imposed larger zoning changes.
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A survey by the American Public Transportation Association finds that millennials value transit, but agencies must take the lead in becoming mobility managers to keep up with changing travel options.
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One of the largest public-administration software providers, CentralSquare, has absorbed a new tool to help government clients address crumbling infrastructure with asset management software.
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North Mankota’s move away from aging water meter infrastructure will happen over time, as the devices wear out. They will then be replaced with automated, city-owned units.
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A roughly 18-mile section of Interstate 25 is set to become a testbed for a connected vehicle and infrastructure program being funded by a $20 million federal grant.
