EU building world's longest underground rail tunnel | EVs could pay into highway trust fund | Urban impacts of ending parking minimums

infrastruttura no. 36 The longest underground rail tunnel in the world has been under construction in the Alps for a decade - but it won't open until 2032 at the earliest. The Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) is a 30-mile-long, $11B mega-project on the border of Italy and Austria that cuts

Ocean tide coming in for wave power | Forging a future for enhanced geothermal energy | How EVs could bankrupt America's transit systems

infrastruttura no. 28 If we had the ability to harness their energy, ocean waves could meet nearly 65% of America's electricity demand. After the technology's fits and starts over the last decade a pilot project at the Port of Los Angeles aims to demonstrate that the future of generating electricity

Decentralizing water recycling | Car ownership as "essential infrastructure" | Why wildfire tech is missing the mark

infrastruttura no. 26 Not even civil infrastructure is immune from the decentralization taking place during the "Great Dispersion" rippling through the global economy. Take water resources, for example. In our moment of scorching temperatures and mega-droughts, water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity everywhere (but nowhere more acutely than in

Hydrogen-powered trains hitting the rails | America's EV charging network will be expensive | LA is (sort of) launching an infrastructure bank

infrastruttura no. 25 North America's first hydrogen-powered train is taking passengers for the summer in Quebec. "Hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and it always will be" is The Economist's running joke. But there's real reason to be optimistic that the future is now, at least in certain

Infrastructure funding gap growing | Global cities flourishing and floundering | America's EV and gas tax fees rising

The world's infrastructure funding gap is growing, stressed by rising interest rates, the fight against climate change, and waves of populism. Despite infrastructure's outsized impact on global carbon emissions (the sector is responsible for nearly 80 percent of them) there remains an enormous investment gap between the funds that G20