As Intelligent Cars Take Off, Regulation Looms
The past four years have brought innovation beyond anything we could have ever imagined, and nowhere have we seen this change more than in our cars. The development of intelligent vehicle technologies is bringing wireless connectivity and the Internet on the go into the mainstream and merging the tech and auto industries. As these two forces converge, our vehicles aren’t just taking us where we want to go, but they tell us how to get there, what we will see when we get there and where to stop al...
Sweco’s ‘Live BIM’ Railway Project Improves Efficiency on Hallandsås Project
The construction of a railway tunnel through the Hallandsås ridge in southern Sweden has a long history, but the end is in sight with the start of traffic services scheduled for late 2015. To help meet the demanding project schedule and the challenges of performing tunnel excavation and detailed engineering design in parallel, Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration, chose to advance its use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices with the help of Sweco Infrastructure AB. Swe...
Cites Embrace a More Energy Efficient Future Mobility
At this year's international public transport fair UITP in Geneva, Switzerland, Siemens will be showing the latest developments for integrated, resource-conserving, economical and convenient urban mass transit: on show will be a power control system for rail power supply, energy-storage systems for catenary-free urban transit systems, solutions for the optimum use of rail infrastructure, an IT-based platform for the planning, booking and invoicing of multimodal travel, plus Europe's first fully...
Smarter Driving Key to Sustainable Transportation Planning
In the popular mind, smarter, greener, and more sustainable transportation is generally equated with mega-projects like high speed rail, light rail, long tunnels for rail transport and, well, new subways and other versions of railway transportation. London’s Crossrail project—which will build ten new stations, dig two new tunnels, and lay many miles of new high speed railway—is a good example; it’s currently Europe’s biggest construction project. But academics and planners who study transport...
Roadway Sensors Provide Real-Time and Historic Data
Robert Bray is a senior software architect at Autodesk, Inc., a computer aided design firm that readers may have heard about. He recently sat down with Informed Infrastructure to discuss his view of sensored roadways, and the uses of the information they develop. Informed Infrastructure: Robert, can you tell us how you came to be interested in sensored roadways? Bray: At Autodesk, I'm primarily responsible for the Infrastructure Suite, including our roadway and utility design products, and...
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June Issue 2026
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