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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The company is still in the planning stages of constructing a test track in North Las Vegas, but now has more motivation to ramp up its work.
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The automaker threw some ideas against the wall in expectation of the automobile's central role in future society.
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States, including Colorado, restrict the use of rain barrels. A water law scholar says a better way to conserve is reduce waste from big – and powerful – water users.
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The Habitat III Village will see groups and individuals implement their ideas using the streets of Quito, Ecuador.
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Many of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system's parts have to be custom made, making repairs and any maintenance projects lengthy and expensive.
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The initial project list, published last week, includes maintenance and repair money, as well as additional project construction funds, for every city in the county, as well as for unincorporated areas.
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From the explosion in rooftop solar to big efforts in retrofitting inefficient buildings, state energy programs and incentives appear to be rippling up and down the Wasatch Front and beyond.
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Oklahoma is the first state in the nation to establish a statewide goal of consuming no more fresh water in 2060 than was consumed in 2012.
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The elevated rail system taking shape from East Kapolei to Ala Moana Center will have 20 trains, and each train will consist of four rail cars.
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Linking citizen-advocates, transportation officials, and public officials is big first step.
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Faced with stringent fuel economy standards but cheap gas, automakers may seek to delay CAFE rules. What's the best way to reevaluate these emissions-cutting rules?
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By offering a program that provides volume pricing on both solar panels and electric cars, local government can help customers buy more of each, according to a new study out of Colorado.
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The pressure is on to find environmentally responsible ways to dispose of gadgets rendered obsolete.
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Planners will study new approaches toward how to design and finance storm-water treatments, including finding new scenic and environmental benefits.
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Cities like Toronto and Vancouver operate more similarly to their American counterparts than European metros, yet are still different enough to offer useful lessons.
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Rather than hand the blighted area over to a developer, the city changed the zoning to allow for a mix of uses and fostered the idea that an urban neighborhood can handle all its own needs without creating waste.
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Some opponents to driverless cars say they'll be a public-transit killer, but others argue that transit will always have a place in dense cities.
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The two local governments are joining forces to form a joint power authority, allowing them to buy electricity on the wholesale energy market.
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