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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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While maglev trains are in use throughout the world, those systems are primarily high-speed test environment systems where speeds reach in excess of 250 miles per hour. MagneMotion, Inc. to lead the development of a key Maglev technology for implementation in transportation systems serving traffic-congested urban areas.

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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. Data from the LA Basin mapping project are available on the NIST website.

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Atheia is a mobile app that makes observations about a user’s environment to improve spatial awareness and safety. In addition, the search feature directs users to objects in their environment through haptic feedback and audio instructions. “The immediate application we thought of was a visual aid for people with low or no vision.”.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5

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Campaign Begins

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Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries. Experts estimate there is sufficient generation in place and available at night to charge up to one-third of all vehicles in America, if they were plug-ins.

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Summer Update

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They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. And in the United States at least, there is a broken insurance system that needs fixing.