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The future of transportation lies increasingly in the continued investment and use of real-time information to make our infrastructure smarter, including enabling vehicles to communicate with each other and with the world around them. It is estimated that by 2050, the number of vehicles around the world is set to double to two billion, placing enormous demands on the global transportation infrastructure and on the networks designed to support them.

Here in the United States, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), in coordination with other federal and state agencies, private industry and the nation’s leading universities, is working to advance life-saving connected vehicle technology and real-time data to help prevent traffic fatalities and injuries, while reducing traffic congestion, improving environmental performance and making our transportation system more user friendly.

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 ‘Green asphalt’ layers cool surface on school lot Source: CNET What’s light green, sprayed on top of asphalt, and lowers the temperature of parking lots by 30 degrees? If you went to school at Robert L. Duffy school in Phoenix, you’d know the answer. Late last month, the charter school became the testing ground for “green asphalt,” a concrete-based reflective covering designed to make asphalt surfaces cooler and more durable. A school ‘goes green’ with cooler pavement (photos) View the full gallery Phoenix-based Emerald Cities installed the coating at the school to demonstrate the viability of the technology to city leaders and contractors, company CEO Sheri Roese said yesterday. As part of its efforts to be carbon neutral, the school had its parking lot resurfaced to lower the energy needed for cooling adjacent buildings and make the parking lot more comfortable for students during lunch and recess.

 ‘Green asphalt’ layers cool surface on school lot

Source: CNET

What’s light green, sprayed on top of asphalt, and lowers the temperature of parking lots by 30 degrees? If you went to school at Robert L. Duffy school in Phoenix, you’d know the answer. Late last month, the charter school became the testing ground for “green asphalt,” a concrete-based reflective covering designed to make asphalt surfaces cooler and more durable. A school ‘goes green’ with cooler pavement (photos) View the full gallery Phoenix-based Emerald Cities installed the coating at the school to demonstrate the viability of the technology to city leaders and contractors, company CEO Sheri Roese said yesterday. As part of its efforts to be carbon neutral, the school had its parking lot resurfaced to lower the energy needed for cooling adjacent buildings and make the parking lot more comfortable for students during lunch and recess.

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cloois: Road trains that link vehicles together using wireless sensors could soon be on European roads. A couple of years ago I was talking about an idea like this with my friend, Carlo. I can’t believe it might be happening! Prediction: phase two will involve smart roads that organize their own traffic & provide power.

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Road trains that link vehicles together using wireless sensors could soon be on European roads.

A couple of years ago I was talking about an idea like this with my friend, Carlo. I can’t believe it might be happening! Prediction: phase two will involve smart roads that organize their own traffic & provide power.

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adrifting: Solar Roadways The Solar Roadway Panel (TM) is still on the drawing board, but it does promise lots of ambitious features. For instance, it will have smart LED lights to serve as lane markers or spell out messages. It will sense animals on the roadway and warn drivers (deer totally love the idea). It will be heated so as to prevent icing. You can stop and plug your electric car into it if you ever run out of power. And oh so much more. via infrastructurist This is absolutely incredible!…Still I think investing in transit is a better idea, but retrofitting all of our roads to create power would be so perfect! Click through for a neat gif.

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Solar Roadways

The Solar Roadway Panel (TM) is still on the drawing board, but it does promise lots of ambitious features. For instance, it will have smart LED lights to serve as lane markers or spell out messages. It will sense animals on the roadway and warn drivers (deer totally love the idea). It will be heated so as to prevent icing. You can stop and plug your electric car into it if you ever run out of power. And oh so much more.
via infrastructurist

This is absolutely incredible!…Still I think investing in transit is a better idea, but retrofitting all of our roads to create power would be so perfect!

Click through for a neat gif.

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