As Google, Uber, Amazon and Tesla work to transform transportation, there’s an important task that should be taken up by civil engineers: better informing the public about the risks.

City dwellers are accustomed to taxicab stands on bustling street corners, but what will happen to those stands if taxis start to fly?

Although on-street testing immerses AVs into real-world mobility environments, ensuring their reliability requires creating and evaluating as many “what if” scenarios as possible for a variety of vehicles. 

Although several state DOTs are investing in AV research and pilot programs, Colorado’s RoadX program may be farther down the highway than most. 

Building infrastructure for autonomous vehicles can smooth down some of the rough edges of the technology, but the real work of navigation happens in the cars. 

Autonomous vehicles promise to revolutionize mobility, but they’ll need the right infrastructure to do it

Efforts are underway in Louisiana to determine the possible impacts and new requirements for highway infrastructure that may result should the use of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) grow.

With the global mining industry still digging out of commodity slowdowns, much of the heavy equipment on display at this year’s MINExpo International exhibition was geared toward solving technological problems in time for the next boom.