Over half a mile in length, the avenue ‘Electric Avenue, W9’ in Westminster has been turned into an electric vehicle charging haven with lampposts acting as charging points.
Swarms of microrobots will scuttle along beneath our roads and pavements, finding and fixing leaky pipes and faulty cables. That is, if a new project sponsored by the U.K. government is a success.
The 30 meters of plastic bike path contain recycled plastic equivalent to more than 218,000 plastic cups or 500,000 plastic bottle caps. The PlasticRoad is also the first smart bike path in the world.
A modular, reconfigurable paving prototype called Dynamic Street is a flexible system that would allow the function of a street to change quickly - from a roadway for cars one day to a kids' play space the next.
The roads will generate energy through a series of solar panels that are installed underneath the surface of the streets.
The ‘cool pavement’ project prevents asphalt from retaining heat by using reflective gray sealant to create cooler temperatures in urban neighborhoods.
The first electric road capable of charging EVs as they drive across it is now open outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Once expanded, the electric roadways will make it convenient to charge electric vehicles.
The two-lane road covers 5,875 square meters and can generate up to 1 million kilowatt-hours of power annually — enough to power 800 Chinese homes.
Picture an elevated tube that lets cyclists move around the city in a safe, climate-controlled, enclosed bicycle superhighway.
A Dutch organization has just announced plans to salvage plastic pollution from the ocean and use it to build highways in Rotterdam.
Thanks to reinforced, pre-stressed concrete and 3D-printing techniques, the bridge (which is primarily intended for cyclists) can safely bear the weight of 40 trucks. In total, the structure took just three months to build.
The Dutch province of Friesland repurposed toilet paper in a 1km stretch of bike highway.
Siemens and the Germany state of Hesse teamed up to create a 6-mile stretch of eHighway on the autobahn.
In six months, the route from the capital Brisbane to the small sugar town of Tully will offer drivers 18 free recharging stations.
US is experimenting with roadways that create their own clean, renewable energy, drive-thru automated tire safety stations and sensor-embedded highways that transmit data about their condition.
