Items Tagged with 'Smart Infrastructure'

Emerging technologies, including autonomous vehicles, are transforming traditional infrastructure roles

The city of Columbus, Ohio, is well underway with its pilot projects for mobility after receiving a $40-million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation in 2016 as part of a Smart Cities challenge. 

Although on-street testing immerses AVs into real-world mobility environments, ensuring their reliability requires creating and evaluating as many “what if” scenarios as possible for a variety of vehicles. 

Although several state DOTs are investing in AV research and pilot programs, Colorado’s RoadX program may be farther down the highway than most. 

Building infrastructure for autonomous vehicles can smooth down some of the rough edges of the technology, but the real work of navigation happens in the cars. 

Autonomous vehicles promise to revolutionize mobility, but they’ll need the right infrastructure to do it