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 buses will be equipped with cameras to monitor the areas in front of and alongside the bus. When the bus is within three seconds of hitting someone, an icon lights up on the dashboard alerting the driver.
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Just one week after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, moved to stay President Barack Obama's so-called Clean Power Plan, 17 governors joined to back the plan.
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As their potential for value creation gains recognition, airport public-private partnerships are picking up momentum.
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According to climatologists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, we may be already be halfway to the self-imposed cap, and if we stabilize now, we may be able to buck the current upward trend.
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The Nevada state Public Utilities Commission has rejected the notion to add in a grandfather clause in the new state solar rate hikes.
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California's Marin County is doing its part in trying to slow down the effects of Climate Change, participating in the CoolCalifornia Challenge that pits cities against one another in lowering carbon footprint.
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Chattanooga joined 76 other cities in applying for a $40 million federal Smart Cities grant not just to design a futuristic system, but actually start putting it into place.
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If we’re just relying on the white lines of a crosswalk to protect pedestrians, we’re in big trouble.
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Most of the leaks are small, even tiny. But many have been seeping for years, deemed too insignificant by the utility companies to warrant an immediate fix.
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To compete with Lyft and Uber, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has adopted Arro, its own mobile ride sharing app.
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Although the state is in the midst of a historic five-year drought, water is being released from Folsom Lake based on its operations manual from 1956.
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Disagreements about how to address the poisoned water crisis in Flint, Mich., has stalled previously promising negotiations on the energy bill.
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Since the decision in December, solar advocates have waged a vocal campaign against the commission, urging it to reconsider its decision.
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Hampton Roads, Va., will conduct a study to measure the effectiveness of a rapid bus system rather than a light rail system.
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The Google-owned community-based traffic and navigation app has been growing steadily and providing congestion data to city governments to help ease commutes.
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The state's Senate Finance Committee heard from leaders of the Infrastructure Bank, which has been criticized for being driven by politics and not the state’s road needs.
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Though the U.S. Department of Transportation isn't releasing details of any of the 77 applications it's received for its Smart City Challenge until March 12, city officials have divulged pieces of their plans to local media outlets across the country.
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The city has responded to the Smart City Challenge, which calls for urban transit to be taken into the high-tech age.
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