Infrastructure
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Spring days can produce an excess of surplus renewable energy in California — more power than electric lines can carry. Researchers have some ideas about where and how to harness that energy. -
Founded by former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, the North Carolina Blockchain + AI Initiative (NCB+AI) will work to pass pro-cryptocurrency legislation and support construction of data centers.
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A new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy urges regulators and utilities to make the grid operate more efficiently. There are ways, experts said, to absorb part of data centers’ growth.
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The group, created through an executive order, will study and report on how transportation might develop between 2020 and 2040.
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Global City Teams Challenge participants will focus on smart city solutions to common urban issues, with a strong eye toward developing comprehensive security systems to safeguard those projects.
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The effort to build a high-speed rail line between the Bay Area and Los Angeles is facing mounting costs that could stall the project’s progress even more.
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The California-based bike-share company LimeBike will launch a fleet of the rentable bicycles in the spring.
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After hinting as much, a leaked document outlines the president’s plan to put funding responsibility in the hands of states and private investment.
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Over the course of the next decade, autonomous vehicles will mean narrower lanes, flyover ramps at intersections, fewer public parking lots and more shortcuts through neighborhoods, officials say.
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Highway expansions as well as the potential for dedicated autonomous vehicle lanes are being considered as possible congestion fixes.
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The policies and regulatory needs around autonomous technology will be the central focus of the Highly Automated Vehicles Advisory Committee.
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Resident complaints have helped prompt the installation of adaptive traffic signals throughout town.
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On Jan. 18, Gov. John Kasich kicked off the DriveOhio initiative, which establishes a single point of contact for all things smart transportation in the state.
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Cincinnati is installing more than 20,000 feet of fiber communications in its central business district.
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Among a number of other priorities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget outlines the extension of autonomous vehicle testing in the state and a proposal that would ban cellphone use for young drivers.
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New research is lending insights on how millennials’ preferences are changing urban environments.
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The proposal would funnel $2.6 billion to railroads to help them implement Positive Train Controls ahead of the Dec. 2018 federal deadline.
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The cars, which were fully autonomous 99 percent of the time, gave more than 400 rides during CES to more than 20 destinations on the Las Vegas Strip and elsewhere in the city.
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New York City's CTO, Miguel Gamiño, has a vision for how connected technology can make our lives better.
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Nine sensors are set to be deployed across the University District in Spokane, Wash., where researchers have been studying air quality in an urban setting.
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