Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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The potential benefits are vast for those cities which make the best use of the tools at their disposal: the costs for those which do not are equally significant.
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A new report examines the potential for distributed water infrastructure systems to be integrated with or substituted for more traditional water infrastructure.
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Energy and sustainability expert Julia Burrows will lead the Washington, D.C.-based Governing Institute.
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City water utility addresses challenge of rapid population growth and diminished precipitation with brackish water desalination, expansion of regional water networks and wastewater recycling.
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On this edition of FutureStructure Radio Donna Huey and Rick Cunningham of Atkins discuss how cities can be future proofed and why it's critical they do so.
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Why do we keep investing the minimum amount while other countries pass us by in quality and breadth of transportation networks?
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With Central Japan Railway’s efforts to sell high-speed trains on the U.S. coasts going nowhere, Texas has emerged as the company’s best hope for introducing its wildly successful technology to the American market.
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The auto industry is seeing a convergence of factors that make fuel cell cars more viable, according to the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.
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The effort is part of the Federal Transit Administration's National Fuel Cell Bus Program, an initiative that has awarded over $90 million in grants to projects that advance the manufacture of fuel cell technology in U.S. transit buses.
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Pennsylvania has ambitious plans to use a public-private partnership to erase its dubious distinction of having more structurally deficient bridges than any other state in the nation.
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Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are in the early stages of a novel idea to move stop and yield signs, among other posted traffic, from the side of the road into the car itself.
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America’s infrastructure deficit problem needs fixing. Municipal bonds are an antiquated method for raising capital that only solves a part of the problem. What about P3s?
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FutureStructure interviews Michael Wilson, Managing Director of Public Transportation for North America at Accenture, about why transit agencies should be investing in transportation asset management.
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Having emerged from decades of tumult, Panama City is making strides through smart transportation, water and energy projects.
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When it's done in 2015, the I-80 Smart Corridor project will feature 133 large high-tech signs and will gather information from networks of sensors and cameras on the freeway, major side streets and ramps.
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Britain has announced a plan to fast-track driverless cars, meaning self-driving cars could hit public roads by early 2015.
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A state appellate court has cleared the way for the sale of bonds for California's controversial high-speed rail project, overturning a lower-court ruling.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's plan for north-south rapid-bus corridors, linking downtowns, businesses and research centers, is viable but will cost $78 million to implement along three recommended routes, a new county study says.
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