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Roads could help rather than harm the environment
Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment.“Loggers, miners and...
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Study shows where on the planet new roads should and should not go
More than 25 million kilometres of new roads will be built worldwide by 2050. Many of these roads will slice into Earth’s last wildernesses, where they bring an influx of destructive loggers, hunters...
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Road planning 'trade off' could boost food production while helping protect...
Conservation scientists have used layers of data on biodiversity, climate, transport and crop yields to construct a colour-coded mapping system that shows where new road-building projects should go to...
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Using real-time road traffic data to evaluate congestion
Britain’s roads are getting more and more congested. Motorways and major roads have sensors and information displays but it is too expensive to fully monitor cities. Researchers at Cambridge...
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Natural disasters, infrastructure and the “new normal”
Some of the worst natural disasters of the last decade have radically changed the ways in which we strive to protect communities from similar, future tragedies, a leading engineer will explain this...
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Cambridge researchers help develop smart, 3D printed concrete wall for...
The 3D-printed structure – a type of retaining wall known as a headwall – has been installed on the A30 in Cornwall, where it is providing real-time information thanks to Cambridge-designed sensors...
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Using machine learning to monitor driver ‘workload’ could help improve road...
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, working in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) used a combination of on-road experiments and machine learning as well as Bayesian filtering...
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