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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Airbnb will begin collecting the 3 percent convention tax from hosts in Miami Beach as part of the county tax deal.
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Caltrain serves 65,000 daily commuters in the crowded Silicon Valley corridor with an aging system of diesel locomotives. Electrifying the trains would reduce smog, upgrade the trains and reduce traffic congestion, supporters say.
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No energy source is without adverse environmental side effects.
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Legislators are grappling with how to foster a high-tech industry that has found a fertile home in the state.
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To place the infrastructure needed for 5G service, a proposal pending in the Florida Legislature would limit state and local control of public rights-of-way where the 5G equipment is being installed.
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With an historic infrastructure expenditure on the table, the SMART Plan also offers potential windfalls for contractors, consultants and the lobbyists they employ.
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The University of Washington released a report for how Seattle should handle the onset of autonomous vehicles, but lessons can be applied to cities nationwide.
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French transportation giant Airbus plans to test a flying vehicle prototype later this year. Time will tell if that jump-starts the ambitious drone-car protype unveiled March 7 at the Geneva car show.
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Future plans for the Skyway will include creating access points along existing routes that will allow the driverless vehicles to leave the elevated pathway and merge onto roadways on dedicated lanes.
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Hundreds of high-hazard and dangerous rail crossings need significant improvements, and lawmakers and advocates are calling for improvements to safety at those crossings.
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As navigation apps become more popular, traffic has been redirected from freeways and major intersections into smaller neighborhoods.
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Drive.ai is creating a hardware and software kit to retrofit commercial vehicles, such as delivery trucks or ride-hailed taxis, for self-driving.
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Production on the Lucid Air is expected to begin in early 2019, with the price tag around $85,000.
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The agency now allows customers to manage their TollTag accounts in either English or Spanish.
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Caltrain is working to secure another contractor to complete the testing work while it works to recoup what it says are damages it sustained with the first contractor.
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A new coating has been created for regular paper that needs no ink, and can be printed on with light, erased and reused more than 80 times.
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The ride-sharing giant takes one step forward and one step back in its seemingly never-ending journey for government acceptance.
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The system tracks where trains are and feed the computers in the locomotive cab with information about how fast the train should be going and what is happening on the tracks ahead. Nearly a decade later, that mandate has not yet been met.
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