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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Storing waste CO2 in rock? Results from a test site at a geothermal plant in Iceland show that CO2 mixed with water can be turned into minerals in locations with basalt volcanic rock.
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Although the city's streetcar network has only been in operation a little over a month, the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance already is calling to increase effectiveness by adding more stops.
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The city has decided to sell general obligation bonds to offset the acquisition of smart meters.
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The PUC had to change the rules after the state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission claimed it lacked the legal authority to impose the limit and did not establish a compelling need for it.
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In a study done by the Hawaii Solar Energy Association, the island's solar grid-supply program is nearing the state’s cap, and the self-supply program is not yet an attractive option due to expensive batteries.
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Measure AA, which was approved by Californians June 7, ranks as the largest environmental measure ever approved in the Bay Area.
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A series of Southern California conferences will deal with management of municipal water networks, the supply of water to farmers, and water management for industry.
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Meet the people working to apply the principles of sustainability to poverty.
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Sacramento’s water utility still has a two-days-a-week restriction, but officials are considering changing the order.
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The robotic device will be tooling around in the city’s largest sewer pipes, collecting data that someday soon will help locate cracks and wear before they cause a major pipeline collapse.
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Missouri is driving the push to make state highway maps more accurate and easier to update.
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Many praise the internet as a democratizing force. But with online spaces replacing physical public squares as places for debate, what do we risk losing?
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Environmental officials are asking the federal government to force air pollution reductions from a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.
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The dream is for luxury buses with few stops and with electronic transponders to switch traffic signals in their favor as they fly down the road.
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Researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that planners can improve the quality of urban life.
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The wave sensors and cameras will be used to detect rip currents and to provide input into near real-time surf zone modeling of the currents to give warning of when they are the strongest so lake goers don't get stranded in the water.
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Can we predict where in the world will be water-stressed? Using a more fine-tuned model, researchers find there is no global water crisis, just local ones.
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Disruptive innovation is needed if the world is to meet its clean water targets.
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