Smart Solutions
This city launched an action plan to eliminate all traffic deaths and severe injuries by a target year, using crash data to identify its highest-risk intersections and corridors
Durham, North Carolina
This common black road surface is actually the leftover byproduct of refining crude oil into gasoline, now used to make cheap, durable pavement
Asphalt
The animal that the Singapore architect, Khew Sin Khoon, liked to study
Butterflies
What is the power rule that Dr. Mauricio Hernandez talked about?
When private or sensitive information is accessed, stolen, or exposed without permission
Data Breach
This city built a bridge over one of its expressways covered in native plants, so animals like pangolins and civets could safely cross between two separated nature reserves
Singapore
Before 1880, this was the main method of travel around and between cities
Horses and horse-drawn vehichles
The number of birds killed in building collisions annually in North America due to light pollution
600 million
This interconnected system of power plants, transmission lines, and substations delivers electricity from generation sources to homes and businesses across a city or region
Information that can identify you as a specific person
Personally Identifiable Information(PII)
This city used participatory data collection to map out its "dark spots" and find the best places to put new LED lights to light the way for pedestrians
Amsterdam, Netherlands
In the 1960s, construction of this highway plowed directly through Hayti, a thriving, historically Black business and residential district, to connect the Research Triangle and I-40 into downtown Durham
The Durham Freeway
This 210-foot-wide structure covered in an acre of natural habitat, helps animals cross the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills, California
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
The amount of money that power outages cost cities in the United States per year
$150 billion
A login security method that requires two separate proofs of identity, like a password plus a code sent to your phone
2 Factor Authentication
This city used smart sensors to know when trash bins were full, so they knew when to empty them. They also used underground vacuum pipes to bring the trash to a central spot
Barcelona, Spain
This was America's first coast-to-coast road for cars
The Lincoln Highway
This Cornell Lab project uses NEXRAD Doppler Radar to detect flocks of birds at night, allowing cities to trigger a "Lights Out" alert
BirdCast
This is the Director of the Durham Department of Transportation
Sean Egan
Software that secretly monitors a device's activity and sends the information to someone else without the user's knowledge
Spyware
This city saved 55% more birds' lives by having skyscrapers dim or turn off decorative lighting during peak spring and fall migration seasons
Chigaco, Illinois
In the 1880s, this group of road travelers advocated for better, smoother roads
Cyclists
The division of natural landscapes and wildlife habitats into smaller, isolated patches by roads, highways, and urban areas
Habitat Fragmentation
This Durham initiative aims to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries by monitoring data and finding analytical ways to reduce fatalities
Vision Zero
When a technology installed for one purpose, like traffic cameras for congestion data, gradually gets used for a more invasive purpose without public knowledge
Surveillance Creep