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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They no longer can count on Washington or their states. They need the authority to find creative local solutions.
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In many parts of the country, federal low-income housing programs place poor families in locations that force them to spend big money on transportation.
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A guide to understanding one of the hottest trends in municipal finance.
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The project provides an opportunity to exchange ideas across the world and to see if there are ideas the Minnesota and German cities can take advantage of from the experience.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx spoke to a crowd saying he doesn't know if the Midwestern city will win the grant, but lauded the progress it's already made.
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The microgrid, which could operate independently of the regional power grid during an widespread outage, would supply power to multiple businesses, city utilities and homes.
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U.S. states need to put in place new ozone air quality standards, but how they are measured – based on peak ozone – doesn't always best reflect a city's overall air quality.
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The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.
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Big Texas cities continue to add the greatest number of people, but the action is in the suburbs when it comes to rates of growth.
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The pilot of the Solar Impulse, a completely sun-powered airplane, wanted to show that renewable energy and clean technology can achieve the impossible: flying without fuel.
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The High-Speed Rail Authority informed the Obama administration, in a contract amendment, that it expects the Central Valley track to be complete by 2022 instead of 2018 as originally projected.
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Many transportation stakeholders continue to question the feds’ long-term ability — and commitment — to funding roads and transit.
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To develop such a system, the city would create a Smart City Institute and work with UC Berkeley and dozens of Bay Area companies.
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The town that delivers more solar power per customer than any other in the country used batteries to get the job done. Could the same model work for other small towns and counties?
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Her intense focus on the minutiae of the streets confuses cause and effect, and virtually ignores infrastructure.
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METRO Houston customers can use their phone to buy tickets. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for transit innovation.
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The Department of Energy is expected to decide next month whether to award some $40 million to as many as five floating wind projects that have already won previous funding.
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A strong majority of the voters surveyed say they can afford a higher tax, especially if it addresses the mounting delays that have brought South Bay Area freeways to a grinding halt.
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