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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In Idaho, four “weigh-in-motion” systems take the place of traditional weigh stations, which require the truck to stop on scale to ensure it’s not overloaded.
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The research firm says Tropical Storm Harvey could cost the Texas Gulf area $51 billion to $71 billion, the costliest U.S. natural disaster of the last three decades after Hurricane Katrina.
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The White House wants to streamline the approval process for major projects, but require states and localities to shoulder more of the financial burden.
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Cuttyhunk, which used to rely entirely on diesel generators for electrical power, now has a micro-grid of solar panels and storage batteries to meet half its energy needs.
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The goal: Less than three decades from now, no coal or natural gas would be burned when Californians charge their electric cars, run their air conditioners or flip on their lights.
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Urbanization in many North American cities has led to a rapid loss of permeable surfaces where water can freely drain. A study conducted by University of Toronto civil engineer Jenny Hill and co-researchers shows how green roofs can improve our cities and environment.
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Amazon’s supremacy in e-commerce and cloud computing has given Seattle more prominence as a magnet for talent from all over the world, and reshaped formerly forlorn parts of the city into vibrant live-work-and-play neighborhoods.
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It’s the next wave in the technological revolution that began about 10 years ago, when hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling helped crack open hard shale-rock deposits that operators couldn’t reach before.
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The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is the Bay Area’s newest transportation option, spanning 43 miles of rail corridor with 10 stops from the Sonoma County Airport to downtown San Rafael.
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The center will develop new technology with components small enough to be developed inside a factory over the coming decade to support smaller-scale nuclear plants.
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The study finds that old "baseload" coal and nuclear power plants are crucial and must be kept operating. But critics called it a "schizophrenic" attempt to support highly polluting power plants.
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Transit systems in Portland, Ore., and Chicago make fare payment increasingly effortless for travelers.
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The San Joaquin Regional Transit District in California has launched the country's first battery-powered electric bus route.
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In response to what has proved to be an urgent urban crisis, cities are deploying a wide range of digital and data-driven strategies to address vacant and abandoned properties.
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Three years ago, the City Council passed a resolution that declared the city’s desire to achieve 50 percent renewable energy by 2025, but now the mayor is interested in achieving 100 percent renewable energy by that year.
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While states have little control over whether utilities set up shared solar projects, many have been moving to open up the market for the development of community solar projects.
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The Colorado Department of Transportation will use a self-driving Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV), as a barrier to protect highway workers.
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The $20 million project is expected to recoup nearly all of its costs from energy and maintenance savings over the life of the 15-year contract.
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