For most people the thrill of fishing is bragging about the size of the catch they’re bringing home, but when our environmental team hits the waters, they’re on a different mission. Rather than length of fish, they’re keeping track of quantity, returning everything they catch to water downstream. Here’s a 60 second look at that process.
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Tunnels play an important role in our constructed environment as passageways for mines, conveyance for utilities, and routes for transportation. Rock bolts are a type of reinforcement for stabilizing rock excavations, usually made from steel bars or bolts. This simple construction method dramatically reduces the cost of making tunnels through rock safe from collapse.
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YouTube documentarists Wendover Productions discuss the logistics that go into running an airport with the goal of generating income. Here, they focus on one of the world’s busiest airports: London Heathrow.
From flights and retail to salaries and maintenance, a world-class airport like Heathrow handles more money than a small country.
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This triumphant follow-up to Streetfilms’ 2014 video “Counting Bicyclists on NYC’s Manhattan Bridge” celebrates the Manhattan Bridge’s new bicycle counter. Cycling advocates discuss the effect of counting bicycles: what it means for communities and what it means for cyclists to have this basic data.
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Hyperloop represents the greatest leap in transport infrastructure for generations. Here we explain the concept that’s about to revolutionise our world.
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On this week’s NCDOT Now, Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdon announced that NCDOT and CSX reached an agreement to build a new facility near Rocky Mount. Also, the Division of Motor Vehicles hosted the School Bus Rodeo as part of their driver training school. Finally nearly 489,000 lbs of trash were picked up from North Carolin’s roadways during the spring litter sweep.
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Learn how NREL researchers are using advanced modeling and visualization tools to help create the planned net-zero energy district, Peña Station NEXT, near the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. This project will result in tools for smart city design that can be applied across the country.
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With record-breaking storms, aging infrastructure, and growing support for federal reform, it’s more crucial than ever to ensure the U.S. is ready to withstand flooding. Recently, a bipartisan group of more than 250 elected officials signed the Flood-Ready Infrastructure Statement of Principles, which encourages the federal government to improve building requirements, enhance the use of natural defenses, and reduce unsustainable development in risky areas.
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Staten Island’s new express bus network arrives August 19, 2018. Learn about the benefits of the new plan and how it will serve as a way forward for improving bus service across New York City.
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Public transit ridership is on the decline in California. But why? Researchers at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) looked at the data to figure out what’s going on and how the problem could be solved.
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