FutureStructure Perspectives
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Transit officials in Kansas City, Mo. plan to eliminate bus fares system-wide this year.
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As alternate transportation options have become more widespread, students at California Polytechnic State University have shown no signs of declining car use, according to a study examining car commutes.
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Castle Rock State Park in California is using the KETOS water-monitoring system which conducts continuous tests of the park's drinking water.
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Transportation is a rapidly evolving industry. The worst-case scenario is allocating millions to a resource that quickly becomes obsolete. Federal agencies play a vital role in helping cities hit the moving target.
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The grid has been vulnerable physically for decades, but we're just beginning to understand the seriousness of an emerging threat to the its cybersecurity. -
Governments have hundreds of thousands of data sets available for public use, but much of that information can be difficult to comprehend or visualize.
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Sales are lagging in the proving ground of California. But maybe it's too early to be keeping score.
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With a new online marketplace, Copenhagen is trying to enable an 'access economy'
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They would be mostly -- but not all -- good for state and local revenues.
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The new year has already seen crucial developments that suggest a future filled with driverless cars that are both safer than today’s vehicles and radically different in appearance and comfort.
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If everyone did it, the carbon savings would be huge and there’d probably be far less congestion.
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Networked alternatives for getting around are about to redefine our cities as much as the horseless carriage did a century ago.
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Autonomous vehicles are coming, and fast. We need to look at new models for shared ownership.
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With advances in technology that are already in place, including the proliferation of Internet of Things technology and devices, any city or town can be smart and reap the benefits.
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These four challenges call on the public and private sectors to innovate together.
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The EPA’s Energy Star program has added the capability to track waste and material use with the same ease of tracking energy and water use.
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In 2017, we’ll have to decide whether we can trust autonomous technology. That’s going to be much harder than we might expect.
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We've just begun to tap the potential. What does 2017 have in store?
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Our new world of robots, artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, is creating new jobs and requiring the current workforce to adjust its roles and acquire new skills to make a living in a science-fictional universe.
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The auto industry’s present is starting to sound a lot like science fiction, thanks to technologies with names like V2X communications, smart infrastructure and e-axles.
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Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated – and very expensive – equipment. But that has changed.
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