They are a torment for motorists and a costly headache for transportation departments. Every winter and spring, potholes plague city streets and rural roads, causing drivers to curse and public works officials to shudder. That’s why some local governments are turning to data and technology to find and fix potholes. Some are even trying to predict where they’ll open up. In a growing number of cities, including Omaha, Nebraska; Hartford, Connecticut; and San Diego, residents ca

Autonomous 16-passenger vehicles would zip back and forth at speeds exceeding 100 mph in tunnels between the Loop and O'Hare International Airport under a high-speed transit proposal being negotiated between Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's The Boring Co., city and company officials have confirmed. Emanuel's administration has selected Musk's company from four competing bids to provide high-speed transportation between downtown and

The cover image for the book taken from my first helicopter flight over the Canal Expansion Project. We had a nice fleet of container ships awaiting the transit for the Gatun Locks and clean morning skies. Here we’re looking down the construction site for the Cocoli Locks on the Pacific side from el Tapòn (the earth plug temporarily holding out the Pacific Ocean from filling the locks in). This is a portrait of one of the many workers from Atlantic side of the Expansion Proje

Omaha has been issued $69.7 million to finance its Saddle Creek Retention Treatment Basin The U.S. EPA has awarded the city of Omaha, Neb., with a $69.7 million loan in order to aid in financing the city’s Saddle Creek Retention Treatment Basin. This is the second loan issued under the agency’s Water Infrastructure and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program. As it exists currently, Omaha’s Saddle Creek Basin overflows when inundated with wet weather events, causing significant overfl