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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Planners should try to stay ahead of technology and embrace changes that will include driverless vehicles, and vehicles that share traffic and road conditions with each other.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials' recent statement on automated driving reflects one tech giant's sentiments that driving is better left to machines.
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Interstate 80 heading into San Francisco has been approved for the SMART Corridor project, which will outfit the highway with advanced metering lights, lane-closure warnings and variable speed-limit signs.
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The Kansas town is considering a study that would asses the condition of city streets involving automated data collection using high-resolution digital cameras, GPS receivers and computers on board a company van.
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The Regional Transportation Alliance received nearly 340 responses to its crowdsourcing survey, and the top suggestion in each county was to improve public transit.
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Last year an Oxnard, Calif., train was derailed, killing one and injuring 34 others. The Metrolink board is now considering a repair to prevent a similar tragedy.
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Mark Jacobson's home is the first constructed built on the Peninsula by BONE Structure, which uses patented light steel-frame building technology that allows for precision building.
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In a part of Washington state hit hard by extreme fire, a fire ecologist explains how prescribed burns and thinning can make the land more fire-resilient.
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Local authorities are key players in a worldwide effort to shape development for the next 15 years. Here's how they are translating high-level global policy into action on the ground.
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The city and county of Honolulu issued 368 photovoltaic permits last month, a decline of 41 percent compared with 632 in the same period a year earlier.
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The idea came from Amtrak commuters looking for an easier way to cross the Hudson river from the Rensselaer rail station to Albany.
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The university has released a Request for Information to improve campus transportation as it relates to safety, mobility and efficiency for all the different people who use it.
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The state energy provider will also be required to invest in “energy transformation” projects to directly reduce fossil fuel consumption.
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Excess nutrients from farm fields cause widespread water pollution across the U.S. Bioreactors -- essentially, ditches filled with wood chips -- are emerging as a way to reduce nutrient pollution.
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Many municipalities have switched to LED streetlights to save energy and money. But the change still comes at a cost.
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Five projects are a part of a 20-year plan to reduce overflows into the Missouri River.
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The Sacramento area ranked seventh for residential solar capacity, 11th for commercial solar capacity and 15th for industrial solar capacity.
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In a 9-2 vote at the end of a three-hour meeting, directors overseeing Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit authorized base and zone fares that add up to a $9.50 one-way trip from Santa Rosa to San Rafael, or $19 round-trip.
