HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS & DRAINAGE
This City department manages Houston's water, wastewater, drainage, traffic engineering, and transportation infrastructure
What is Houston Public Works?
Houston's long-range transportation planning often involves coordination with this regional planning organization.
What is H-GAC (Houston-Galveston Area Council)?
ITS stands for these three words
What is Intelligent Transportation Systems?
This artificial intelligence platform is helping organizations automate content creation and workplace productivity.
What is Generative AI?
Houston and Harris County are currently experiencing increased activity related to this democratic process.
What is early voting for the 2026 elections
This Houston initiative was created to improve streets and drainage infrastructure without issuing additional debt.
What is Build Houston Forward (formerly ReBuild Houston)?
This planning concept focuses on designing streets for pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and motorists.
What are Complete Streets?
Houston Public Works follows these federal criteria when evaluating requests for new traffic signals.
What are FHWA Signal Warrants?
This shopping destination recently announced a new paid parking system.
What is The Galleria?
This major freeway megaproject continues to generate significant road closures throughout Houston.
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What is the I-45 Expansion Project
This funding and planning process identifies the City's major infrastructure investments over a five-year period.
What is the Capital Improvement Program (CIP)?
Houston Public Works' Urban Design section leads this process for transportation-related capital projects.
What is a Design Concept Report (DCR)?
This regional traffic management center helps monitor roadways and coordinate incidents across Houston.
What is Houston TranStar?
This technology allows vehicles and roadway infrastructure to exchange information.
What is Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Communication?
City leaders are considering new restrictions for the location of these facilities near neighborhoods.
What are gas stations?
These two utility systems are operated and maintained by Houston Public Works in addition to transportation facilities.
What are Water and Wastewater Systems
Planning around this global event has accelerated mobility and transportation improvements near NRG Stadium
What is the FIFA World Cup?
Houston's ITS Master Plan identified a need for this communications medium to provide a reliable and scalable transportation network.
What is fiber-optic communications infrastructure?
Houston's ITS Master Plan highlights this future transportation technology often abbreviated "CAV."
What are Connected and Automated Vehicles?
Harris County is developing recommendations for oversight of this camera-based public safety technology.
What are automated license plate readers (Flock cameras)?
Houston drainage projects are often designed to reduce flooding from this type of event that frequently impacts the region.
What is extreme rainfall/stormwater flooding?
This planning practice evaluates future transportation conditions under alternative growth and investment assumptions.
What is Scenario Planning?
Near NRG Stadium, Houston Public Works partnered with this company to pilot AI-powered adaptive signal control.
What is NoTraffic?
This rapidly growing technology combines AI, sensors, communications, and analytics to manage transportation systems in real time.
What is a Smart Mobility / Smart City Transportation System?
Fort Bend County is evaluating incentives related to this proposed $10.1 billion manufacturing investment.
What is Tesla's proposed solar manufacturing facility?