Road & Rail
You could argue that reliable electricity has never mattered more. Data centers powering AI are multiplying. Electric vehicles are spreading. Yet the grid carrying all this load was largely built decades ago, and it keeps...
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You could argue that reliable electricity has never mattered more. Data centers powering AI are multiplying. Electric vehicles are spreading. Yet the grid carrying all this load was largely built decades ago, and it keeps failing under weather that old...
On most days, the picturesque Rappahannock River looks deceptively calm as it cuts through the rolling hills of northern Virginia. But for decades, drivers crossing the river on Interstate 95 barely noticed the scenery. All they saw was congestion, brake...
Hawai‘i is so rich in natural beauty that in parts of the world its name is shorthand for paradise. But exploring that paradise depends on something far more prosaic: roads. Maintaining them is anything but easy. Sun, salty air, torrential...
With climate risks increasing, data volumes exploding, and the global race to build new, more resilient infrastructure accelerating, experts at Bentley Systems are offering fresh insights on how to confront the world’s infrastructure challenges—both now and in the future. The...
Some engineering marvels were once highly controversial projects. As the Empire State Building grew above Manhattan during the Great Depression, many New Yorkers complained that the iconic Art Deco skyscraper was a waste of money. Throughout the 1990s, security-conscious Brits...
Mark Pittman parlayed his frustration with a broken traffic light into a pioneering startup that today uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, and cloud computing to help maintain the nation’s roads more intuitively and effectively. Since its launch in 2014,...
It was still dark outside when I left my home in Dedrad, a small village in Transylvania, Romania, where the roads are as old and twisty as the stories I grew up with. I loaded my suitcase into the car,...
Devastating wildfires tore through the hills surrounding Los Angeles in January, leaving emergency responders to navigate a maze of smoke, debris, and melted street signs. Familiar roads and landmarks were rendered unrecognizable. Like other densely populated areas hit by natural...
I traveled to the U.S. in November to meet my team at Bentley Systems headquarters just outside Philadelphia. I am a senior product marketing manager in Europe at Bentley, the infrastructure engineering software company, and I specialize in software for...