Infrastructure
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Two sites in Macomb County and a half-dozen in surrounding areas will get electric vehicle charging stations. The state can now begin spending remaining federal EV infrastructure funds. -
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.
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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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Electronic toll systems are credited with enhanced driver safety and traffic flow.
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This idea is not new; it has existed for decades. But while a vactrain sounds like a good concept, it’s relatively unfeasible to actually build. In this sense, Musk’s Hyperloop project is not a novel application of science but a novel application of engineering – using existing technology in new ways to get around the inherent challenges of a vactrain.
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We travel many thousands of miles from our NYU lab toward both the North and South poles so we can see what’s happening on the glacier and in the ocean off Greenland and Antarctica.
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Cities around the globe are faced with rapid population growth, increasing inequality, pollution and congestion. But Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, knows how it wants to improve and is quickly making the right changes to get there.
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San Francisco has some of the most progressive environmental policies in the country, and it has a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2025.
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Many local governments are expressing a desire to attract or retain the economic activity and tax dollars created by what’s now the largest generation in the U.S. workforce.
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Five institutions in Salt Lake City were recognized by the city as part of this year's Project Skyline Mayor’s Challenge Awards.
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The project, which others have estimated could cost more than $10 billion, is still on track to open to the public possibly as early as 2021.
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The director of Google’s self-driving cars says the cars have confronted a variety of scenes on surface streets around the company’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.
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Several municipalities are forming public-private partnerships to launch smart city initiatives.
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A group of experts is working to design a tool to boost the brightness of clouds to reflect rays of sunlight back into space.
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Mcity, billed as a linchpin to preserve southeast Michigan's dominance in automotive technology's future, is designed to accelerate development of inter-vehicle communication and driverless cars.
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Communities face a lot of challenges in improving Internet access. The key is engaging stakeholders in a collaborative process.
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With U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz looking on, Mayor Bill Peduto signed a memorandum of understanding that jump-starts research and develops local sources of energy.
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Their use may not solve all urbanization problems, but can provide a multitude of solutions that can be leveraged by cities
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We expect to pay for services like phones and electricity and water that are reliable. Shouldn't we treat roads the same way?
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The light purchase caps a two-year effort, which came to a head last year when a number of Andover residents starting asking why the lights on their streets had been turned off.
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As clean energy catches on, coal is not the commodity it was in decades past.
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