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 company has proposed a two-tiered drone highway network that could revolutionize package delivery into cities.
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In January, the Portland Water Bureau in Oregon flipped the on switch for the first project in the U.S. to produce energy from in-pipe hydropower in a municipal water pipeline.
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Light rail advocates claim such transportation systems introduce a whole new type of development, one that appeals to both working millennials and retired snowbirds.
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Someday, solar energy could generate two-thirds of our electricity, shoving conventional fuel sources such as coal and natural gas to a backup role, powering generators that run only when supplies are tight.
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The policy change would expedite the building-and-safety review inspection.
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The police department's new District 3 headquarters building is equipped with 40 geothermal wells, solar panels that can generate 330 kilowatts of energy, and 29 energy zones that allow for unused systems to be turned off.
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The Florida Department of Transportation has funded research on autonomous waterborne vehicles that could make bridge inspections faster, safer and more efficient.
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Lancaster, Calif.'s effort to build a seamless, integrated energy infrastructure points the way to long-term robustness and sustainability.
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The reason we have such congestion is not because we have low-tech vehicles that require excessive braking space -- it’s because we have failed at urban planning.
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This new solar farm can power the equivalent of about 500 homes.
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Though the industry won’t be impacted “significantly” for at least a decade, the landscape will begin to shift dramatically after that.
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There's a lot of room for improvement in the world's transportation infrastructure, and using big data is one way to close the gap.
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What if each of the 146 million U.S. electric customers could generate their own electricity?
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Cost, cybersecurity and privacy protection are just some of the unsolved challenges that stand between the technologies' potential and reality.
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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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