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 Smart Cities Living Lab is a test bed for numerous smart technologies in downtown Dallas that has become a mecca for tourism and the arts.
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Smart Columbus is looking to build a web-based information system that will collect and share data, allowing vehicles, roads and streetlights to communicate.
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According to a bipartisan group in the U.S. House, more funding options need to be considered to adequately address lagging national infrastructure.
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Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing a $2.5 billion plan to help put millions of electric cars on state roads and expand the number of charging stations.
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During the Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., last week, mayors from across the country voiced concerns that the federal outline for infrastructure funding could leave cities holding the bag.
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The city will spend $15 million to deploy 4,000 sensor-equipped trash receptacles that will increase collection efficiency.
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The commission's first set of rules could open the floodgates for utilities to use large grid-scale batteries to avoid shortages that drive power costs higher and spread a technology long considered vital to making Texas' intermittent wind and solar resources more reliable and more used.
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A lidar implementation and a collection of connected vehicle data are two of Las Vegas' most recent tech initiatives in its downtown Innovation District.
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The group, created through an executive order, will study and report on how transportation might develop between 2020 and 2040.
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Global City Teams Challenge participants will focus on smart city solutions to common urban issues, with a strong eye toward developing comprehensive security systems to safeguard those projects.
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The effort to build a high-speed rail line between the Bay Area and Los Angeles is facing mounting costs that could stall the project’s progress even more.
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After hinting as much, a leaked document outlines the president’s plan to put funding responsibility in the hands of states and private investment.
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Over the course of the next decade, autonomous vehicles will mean narrower lanes, flyover ramps at intersections, fewer public parking lots and more shortcuts through neighborhoods, officials say.
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Highway expansions as well as the potential for dedicated autonomous vehicle lanes are being considered as possible congestion fixes.
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Resident complaints have helped prompt the installation of adaptive traffic signals throughout town.
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Cincinnati is installing more than 20,000 feet of fiber communications in its central business district.
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New research is lending insights on how millennials’ preferences are changing urban environments.
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The proposal would funnel $2.6 billion to railroads to help them implement Positive Train Controls ahead of the Dec. 2018 federal deadline.
