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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States like New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Nevada are all open to continuing research in truck-platooning.
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The city is looking for 1,600 private vehicle volunteers for pilot program to measure safety features along the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.
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In this Q&A, Harriet Tregoning, former principal deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, talks about the importance of managing change and that things need to be designed for adaptation.
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The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and the Smart City Works Actuator are seeking applications from entrepreneurs, startups and companies with emerging products that are designed to make cities smarter, more livable and more resilient.
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Startup Blokable designs and manufactures self-contained housing structures that are outfitted with electrical and plumbing systems as well as appliances and fixtures.
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With Amazon’s pending acquisition of Whole Foods Market, there may soon be brick-and-mortar locations for the Seattle company to experiment with new shopping and pick-up experiences.
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To preserve their communities' economic and social well-being, leaders will need to manage an endless cycle of technological disruption.
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The few projects that have studied mileage-based usage taxes have been in California, Oregon and Washington. This will be the first East Coast study.
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The hope is that the two-month test of smart city tech is successful and can be made available to other cities in the state.
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Energy storage has received much more attention in the past few years as policymakers across the country have mandated the use of increasingly more renewable energy sources into their state energy portfolios as ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fastrack's main focus is to find “cutting edge, agile, and scalable solutions to urban problems.”
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Next Future Transportation is developing a modular transportation system that resembles railcars that link up to form a train, but smaller and with rubber wheels for roads -- and they drive themselves.
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Smart Columbus is getting serious about promoting electric vehicle use, starting with encouraging more charging locations.
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Coastal Risk Consulting provides actionable intelligence about flood risks to homeowners, businesses and governments worldwide, and makes it fast, accurate and affordable.
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Understanding the potential of using data to tackle city priorities like infrastructure but lacking the internal capacity and budget to develop a robust data program, the city began looking for help from outside the public sector.
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The monitoring programs are part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Smart City Air Challenge — a 2016 competitive grant program that made $40,000 available to each community.
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Elon Musk said he expects production to start of slowly and then ramp up rapidly.
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A Hyperloop system is a conceptual mode of passenger and freight transportation that propels a pod-like vehicle through a near-vacuum tube at more than airline speed.
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