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 July, the LED lighting creators received a $4.3 million contract to install LED lighting in municipal and school buildings in New Bedford, Mass.
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At the CityLab 2016 Conference held by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute, city officials were in the spotlight sharing their efforts to create a more livable space for residents.
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Technology is boosting the idea of a zero-waste framework in which everything is used, reused and recovered.
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While autonomous vehicles are the ultimate destination for cars’ transformation, there will be plenty of waypoints along the road — and interim ways for drivers to benefit from new technologies.
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More collaboration between the region’s universities, smoother border crossings and improved transportation between the cities will benefit both Washington and British Columbia.
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Researchers at the University of Washington are compiling data on the system to help determine whether it is “as effective as claimed."
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The network would replace the turnpike’s microwave-radio system, whose capacity to carry data from toll plazas, camera systems and road sensors to centralized computers will eventually reach its limit.
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If the Hyperloop turns into a means of transportation, it will be the fastest and one of the cheapest modes of transportation in existence.
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An electric grid that can fix itself may seem like something out of science fiction, but Eversource Energy is moving in that direction.
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Smart Cities Grant Winners announced Thursday were Denver; Los Angeles; Marysville, Ohio; Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority in New York; Pittsburgh, Pa.; San Francisco; and Houston.
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Our future roadways will consist of more than self-driving cars and smart traffic systems.
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A new parking solution cuts out one of the most hated pieces of urban infrastructure — the parking meter.
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The city’s successful BlightSTAT performance management approach has been the backbone of efforts that resulted in the elimination of over 15,000 blighted units from 2010 to 2015.
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The sensors will help balance traffic and move it more quickly, and allow buses, public safety or freight vehicles to communicate with traffic signals so they can move through intersections more efficiently.
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The New York Civil Liberties Union warns that without tollbooths, the use of license plate readers and facial recognition technology will create a new cache of sensitive information.
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The funding will save $100 million in energy and operational costs over the next two decades and create local jobs.
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There are an estimated 23 billion Internet-connected devices in homes and offices worldwide, and many have little or no security shield.
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A look inside a project that Santa Monica hopes represents the future.
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