Austin Water Utility of the City of Austin, Texas faces a challenge of correcting sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) from its wastewater collection system. Austin is required to address and eliminate the SSOs from the collection system on a short schedule to meet a Federal regulatory mandate. The...
The City of Austin is among the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., with the surrounding counties keeping a similar pace. Travel times from downtown Austin to Round Rock, where many commuters live, currently range from 45 to 60 minutes during the average afternoon rush hour. Decision-makers...
The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity, the Indus lacks clear evidence for elaborate tombs, individual-aggrandizing monuments, large temples, and palaces. Its first...
Canadian rapperBellywas very unhappy with Ottawa police following an August 2008 raid on his home in the city's outskirts. Officers from various law enforcement departments executed a search warrant for firearms, busting down the rapper's door with a battering ram and even attempting to break a ...
Brandenburg DL, Matthews AK, Johnson TP, Hughes TL. Breast cancer risk and screening: a comparison of lesbian and heterosexual women. Women Health. 2007;45(4):109–30. ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar Case P, Austin SB, Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Malspeis S, Willett WC, et al. Sexual orientation...
the city developed an "Environmental Commissioning" process which brought together environmental engineers and scientists, the city's project management team, and the designer team to work collaboratively to meet the city's goals of producing a cost effective design, while also protecting the environmen...
Building smart sustainable cities initiatives requires governance capacity, which is constantly challenged by a diversity of actors and the transformation towards a digital society; however, the process of identifying the conditions for building a smart sustainable city (SSC) is not straightforward. As ...
Evaluating FLARoute within an existing routing protocol confirms improved fairness and throughput under conditions that compromise the performance of existing solutions. Keywords: opportunistic networks; delay tolerant data; sensed data collection; fair routing; wireless sensors; Smart City; Internet of ...
The city adds about 1,000 residents a week. Every week. It has topped Forbes' list of fastest-growing American cities four years running. "We're obviously doing something right," said Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen, kicking off a day-long workshop it won through the Smart Cities ...