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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Drought relief did not come this winter - California's wet season - as hoped. Though California is the third-largest state in landmass, nearly all of the state is abnormally dry at best and exceptional drought at worse.
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Building a light-rail line along the 18-mile Orange Line busway between Chatsworth and North Hollywood, including laying track and buying trains, would cost $1.2 billion to $1.7 billion and would take two to three years to complete
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Despite four years of persistent drought, many local water districts continue to rely primarily on education and outreach to achieve conservation.
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Lehigh University is examining how to design, operate and maintain future wave energy farms by using digital technologies to integrate them smoothly to the electric grid.
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Rising competition from solar panels and battery storage could cut in half the amount of power that traditional utilities in the Northeast sell by 2030, according to a report.
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Tim Sylvester has a bold plan to revitalize Interstate 70 – as well as the rest of the nation’s highway system – by making roads a whole lot smarter.
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University researchers' discovery in alternative energy production may be breakthrough for hydrogen-fueled vehicles
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Millions of miles of tunnels criss-cross the ground under old mining communities across the United States. But the water in these mines could actually be a major geothermal resource.
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IBM's IoT unit is the newest entrant in an emerging sector that already has giants such as General Electric, Microsoft and Cisco.
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As the rest of California comes to grips with the state's historic new water mandates, there's an elephant in the room. And it's wearing a farmer's hat.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission wants to take over the program and expand it to 7,000 bikes.
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Randy Iwasaki of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority joins us for a conversation about GoMentum Station, autonomous cars, and the role of government in transforming transportation.
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The county transportation authority today announced a major new partner that it hopes will propel its new autonomous vehicle testing facility, GoMentum Station.
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Why connecting communities with technology is vital for economic and social vibrancy.
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Bus rapid transit is a major success in Latin America. What about in the United States with our suburban sprawl and love of cars?
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Hyperloop Technologies Inc., one company working on the project, has taken up residence for Hyperloop World Headquarters in a 6,500-square-foot industrial space in Los Angeles.
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The point of so-called “grid parity,” where the cost of generating electricity from solar PV falls to the point of being competitive with conventional power generation sources such as coal or natural gas, appears to be fast approaching.
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The goal is to use Chicago as a test bed of urban innovation, drive breakthroughs, and create proven technology solutions that can be commercialized, scaled quickly and replicated in other cities.
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