FutureStructure Infrastructure
-
Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
-
Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
-
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.
More Stories
-
Instead of waiting in long lines to cross toll bridges in Central Florida, PayTollo has created an app that lets you drive through and pay the toll once your drive has ended.
-
One former city mayor warns that dispelling myths is necessary, as is communicating honestly and openly about the issues and potential pitfalls of the project.
-
The Orange County Transportation Authority has effectively ended its planning of a streetcar system due to unforeseen costs and lack of support.
-
The automotive center of America is working out the kinks to ready the country’s infrastructure before self-driving cars roll out nationwide.
-
A proposal has been introduced in Connecticut to outfit utility poles, that have traditionally been used for telephone lines and cable television, with high-speed Internet equipment.
-
Under the new system, pilots receive flight plans via text and upload them into the airplane’s computer by simply touching a button, cutting down the potential for human error.
-
It's a simple concept: The less rainwater that gets into the city's drainage system, the easier it is on the pumping equipment. And researchers now know that keeping our water table charged helps reduce subsidence.
-
Although the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility is set to close by 2020, that might not be the end for nuclear.
-
Karma Automotive joins Tesla on a list of locally based car and bus manufacturers, including Faraday Future, BYD and Atieva that together are making California ground zero for the electric vehicle market.
-
The Ohio capital beat out 77 other cities, including techie San Francisco, with its plans to use technology to solve transportation problems.
-
There's a revolution in the commercial real estate universe, where the "Internet of Things" has come home to roost.
-
If the tax were approved, two cents for every dollar spent in the county would fund transportation improvements. It would require a two-thirds’ vote to pass.
-
Columbus, Ohio, has won the Smart City Challenge, but the other cities who made it to the final round will get some help implementing their plans too.
-
In the wake of one of the worst gas leaks in the nation, President Obama has signed the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016.
-
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Congress has not given the Bureau of Land Management the authority to make rules governing oil and gas operations like hydraulic fracturing.
-
Sometimes the most efficient thing to do is to not do something.
-
En-ROADS, a newly developed climate predicting tool, could help cities test whether (and how much) specific energy policies can slow global warming.
-
Making expanded fossil fuel production the core of U.S. energy policy, as proposed by Donald Trump, and backing out of climate agreements would cost the U.S. economy billions and transform the planet.
Most Read
