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Nearly 90 years after its construction, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater remains an unusually demanding building to preserve. Its cantilevered concrete terraces ha...
A construction equipment fleet can generate detailed information about engine hours, fuel consumption, idle time and productivity, yet decisions about where machines shou...
A highway maintenance technician inspecting a damaged culvert may have immediate access to its location, previous inspection records and photographs through a mobile GIS...
Wastewater samples collected from 40 manholes have helped researchers in Japan assess corrosion risk across a sewer network containing thousands of pipe sections. By meas...
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected intelligent transportation technology company Derq to develop and test an AI-powered intersection safety system c...
Measuring a vehicle’s speed with radar is well established in automated traffic enforcement. Measuring it independently with a second technology, while identifying...
Britain’s national mapping agency generated £198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up £4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contribut...
Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical enviro...
Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding anothe...
Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicle technology out of controll...
Critical communications infrastructure has traditionally been difficult to make small. Resilience demands redundancy, radio capacity requires hardware, and remote coverag...
Artificial intelligence can write software, interpret documents, plan a journey and reason through complicated problems. Ask it to act reliably in the physical world, how...
Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg Unive...
Finding somewhere to put a new power plant or utility-scale battery inside a city is partly an electrical engineering problem. It is also a question of zoning, noise, lan...
ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Te...
Bridges, dams, and tunnels rarely fail without warning. They move first, often by fractions of an inch, long before a crack becomes visible to an inspector on foot. Satel...
The Pasig River is only 27 kilometres long, yet it is estimated to carry around 63,000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean each year. Across Metro Manila, more than 48 tribu...
Raleigh is building a digital representation of the city that is designed to change whenever the city itself does. Drone surveys of construction sites, infrastructure, st...
Smart cities tend to be described through infrastructure: sensors, communications networks, digital twins, autonomous systems and the data platforms connecting them. Seou...
A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from fact...
Esri’s decision to add Airbus 30 cm satellite imagery across roughly 2,000 cities, announced at the 2026 Esri User Conference alongside expanded contributions from...
Optimal Transit, the maritime engineering partnership of InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, has unveiled a second configuration of its Kraaken platform, and the mor...
When EuroTeleSites reported the results of its first year running the Sitetracker Asset Lifecycle Management platform, the headline read like a routine software success s...
Transport infrastructure is converging on a single operating reality. Whether the building is an airport terminal or a mainline railway station, the underlying engineerin...
Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2...
The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is movin...
Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enfor...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly calle...
A bibliometric review is an unusual place to look for a market signal, yet the study of Chinese seismic risk management published in Risk Sciences does something useful f...
The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Group’s 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner...
Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining...
Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read r...
For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly fal...
A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in...
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Cabal...
The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms that build and maintain sea defen...
Why the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure Might Begin Inside a Second-Hand Shop When the infrastructure sector talks about progress, it tends to talk about what comes...
Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of the job and each carrying its...
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have quietly become one of the mo...
Montréal has put artificial intelligence at the centre of how it watches over its streets, switching on Derq’s INSIGHT platform across 100 intersections in what ran...
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