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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. Ultimately, the data and knowledge gained through FloodNet can be used by local residents, researchers, and city agencies to address flood risks.

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NYC Testing Rexroth Hydraulic Hybrid Technology in Refuse Trucks

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The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has launched field tests of Bosch Rexroth ’s Hydrostatic Regenerative Braking (HRB) parallel hydraulic hybrid system to assess HRB’s viability for use as an alternative drive system for the department’s refuse trucks. The hydraulic hybrid refuse truck. Click to enlarge.

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What’s In It For Me?

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There is no doubt that my fate is to be part of the first generation in American history to leave behind a future radically worse than the one that was gifted to us. Because my father’s father was an illiterate Italian illegal immigrant who drove a truck in New York City his entire career, all undocumented workers are my family.

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

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Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering comprised of a consortium of universities, is leading research efforts to optimize these technologies to make them effective and efficient for our lives and our environments. NYU Tandon. Karl Philip Greenberg.

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NYU-BMW i report explores future urban mobility; sustainability and resilience

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The NYU-BMW i study— Urban Mobility in the 21 st Century —predicts a future where growing cities will be inhabited by populations that, although less likely to own cars, will increasingly utilize a new generation of smaller, more efficient, sustainable and networked vehicles to get around.

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