Despite years of lobbying from the U.S. to stop the Russian natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, it is all but complete as we enter […]
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Articles by: staff
What percent of America’s 126 million households does not have access to high speed Internet?
Aii Trivia Question 2 – 7/2/18 Of the approximately 126 million households in the U.S., how many DO NOT have access to high speed Internet? […]
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Do You Think Pipelines Are Safe?
We asked: Do you think pipelines are safe? According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, “more than 2.6 million […]
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What Is Innovation?
What is Innovation? No one really seems to know. Few can agree on a comprehensive definition because it means different things in different contexts. But […]
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What is Infrastructure?
Defining Infrastructure To engage in comprehensive and intelligent discussion regarding our nation’s infrastructure policy, we first need to be thoughtful about what qualifies as “infrastructure.” […]
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Atlanta Power Outage And The Need For More Resilient Infrastructure
While power is back on at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the question remains: what happened to make the busiest airport in the world lose power […]
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Phmsa Study: Wider Adoption Of Technology, Stronger Enforcement Critical To Improving Pipeline Safety
Last June, Congress passed and the President signed the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 (PIPES Act). Among the bill’s […]
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Grid Security – Between Hype and Heads in the Sand
Aii Founder and Chairman, Brigham McCown, was privileged to speak to the students and faculty at the Schar School of Policy and Government and Scalia […]
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Achieving A Sustainable Highway Infrastructure
By Samuel G. Bonasso, PE FASCE* As we look up at the sky and dream of tomorrow’s new sustainable infrastructure ideas, we must also remember […]
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U.S. House Of Representatives Set To Pass First Comprehensive Federal Autonomous Vehicle Legislation
On Wednesday, September 6, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Energy & Commerce Committee’s SELF DRIVE Act (H.R. 3388) – the first […]
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Trump Signs Infrastructure Executive Order
This afternoon, President Trump signed an Executive Order to speed up permit approvals for roads, bridges, waterways, and other major infrastructure projects by improving coordination […]
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Digging Deeper: Volume 1
How Economic Indicators And Population Demographics Impact Incident Rates “Digging Deeper” is the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure’s (Aii) new blog series focused on using […]
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The U.S. Electric Grid: A Primer
On July 12, we published “Building a Smarter Electric Grid: How Investing in Smarter Electricity Infrastructure Will Energize America,” a white-paper focused on the opportunities […]
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It’s time American’s started paying for the transportation system as a utility
By Samuel G. Bonasso, PE* The sheer size of the U.S. requires a sophisticated interstate highway system to facilitate commerce, tourism, and more, essentially making […]
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DIRT Blog Update
Last summer, we published “Improving Upon Our Dig Laws: How State Legislatures Can Help Us Dig Safer,” where we performed an extensive review of the […]
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