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Photo of a slide projection titled "Building a Smart Region in the Coachella Valley"

Transportation

Global Efforts Pursue New Technologies to Improve Road Safety, Resilience

International experts gather to share latest developments in road management

Aileen Cho

December 15, 2025

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International Road Federation speakers outline innovations from artificial intelligence for work zone management to cutting-edge asphalt mixes.

Highway Safety

Report Reveals Trouble With UK's Smart Motorways

Peter Reina

April 23, 2024

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Technology lost power nearly 400 times between June 2022 and February 2024, a BBC report found.

Highways

UK Nixes $1.2B in Planned 'Smart Motorway' Work

Peter Reina

April 17, 2023

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Officials cite safety concerns over eliminated shoulders and inflation-related cost pressures for the cancellation.

Q3 Tech Focus: Mixed Results as Smart Road Testing Begins

Roads that can honk, glow, collect solar energy or charge electric vehicles are meeting with mixed results

Aileen Cho

Emell D. Adolphus

Peter Reina Jim Parsons Stephanie Loder

August 31, 2022

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When the city of Lenexa, Kan., this spring opted to move forward with a test pilot of “smart pavements,” it represented a vital step forward for electric vehicles.

Infrastructure

Michigan DOT Selects Firm for First U.S. Wireless Vehicle Charging Road Infrastructure

Effort is part of state-led pilot program to charge infrastructure on a public road

Emell D. Adolphus

February 8, 2022

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Electreon will develop state's inductive vehicle charging road system, furthering its planned transition to all-electric transit fleets.

Aileen Cho

May 22, 2019

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Transportation infrastructure will need technology to help meet the needs of a growing urban population, and political will to fuel major projects and investor confidence.

Transportation Technologies

A Date With "Disruption"

Panel Examines How AVs, Connected Vehicles Will Alter Infrastructure Management

Jim Parsons

June 7, 2016

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The looming influence of connected and autonomous vehicles on transportation infrastructure was the topic of an Infrastructure Week discussion on Capitol Hill, sponsored by AASHTO and the Eno Center for Transportation.

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Items Tagged with 'Smart Roads'

ARTICLES

Global Efforts Pursue New Technologies to Improve Road Safety, Resilience

Report Reveals Trouble With UK's Smart Motorways

UK Nixes $1.2B in Planned 'Smart Motorway' Work

Q3 Tech Focus: Mixed Results as Smart Road Testing Begins

Michigan DOT Selects Firm for First U.S. Wireless Vehicle Charging Road Infrastructure

At World Built Environment Forum, Promises and Perils of Transportation Technology

A Date With "Disruption"

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