The Infrastructure Show - Podcasts
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The Infrastructure Show - Podcasts
The Infrastructure Show consists of monthly podcasts in which some of the nation’s top infrastructure experts discuss with host Professor Joseph Schofer of Northwestern University specific infrastructure projects, technologies, processes, financing arrangements, and the condition of our infrastruct...
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From Sewer to Kitchen Tap: Replenishing Groundwater in Orange County, California
Orange County, California has been treating wastewater and injecting it into its groundwater supply system since 2008. This is the largest indirect –...
Pay As You Go: Mileage-Based Road User Fees
Motor fuel taxes have long been the primary source of both federal and state funds for U.S. highways. In recent decades, the sufficiency of fuel taxes...
Building New Rail Tunnels Under the Hudson River
Decades in the making, the Hudson River Tunnel Project is adding two railway tunnels between New Jersey and New York to serve Amtrak and New Jersey Tr...
Fast-Growing Cities Need Rapid Water System Upgrades – How Irving, Texas, Does It
Irving, Texas, a city of about 255,000 people near Dallas, is growing fast, and its water supply and wastewater systems must be upgraded to support ra...
Removing Dams on the Klamath River – Why and How
Four dams were removed from the Klamath River in 2023-24 to bring it back to its natural, wild state. These dams provided water and power to the regio...
Rebooting Three Mile Island
In 1979, one of two nuclear reactors at the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown. The second react...
Financing Transportation Through Public-Private Partnerships
Public-private partnerships (P3s) can be important strategies for financing transportation and other large infrastructure projects. Advancing public i...
The TVA After Nine Decades
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest public power company in the United States. It also controls flooding, assures navigability and rec...
Ship Collisions with Bridges – the Risks and Protection Options
Ships hit bridges much more often than people realize, and while most of the outcomes are minor, such events can present big risks to bridge users, sh...
Transformers – Their Vital Role in Ensuring Electric Grid Reliability
Transformers step-down voltage from high levels most efficient for long distance transmission to lower levels for safe distribution to homes and busin...
Rebuilding Chicago Transit Authority’s Red and Purple Rail Lines
The Chicago Transit Authority’s $2.1 billion Red and Purple Line Modernization Project (RPM) is rebuilding a 5.6-mile elevated rail rapid transit stru...
Tsunami Evacuation Towers – Reaching for the Sky to Save Lives
Earthquakes can generate massive tsunamis that pose severe risks to coastal communities. The 2004 earthquake off Sumatra spawned a tsunami that killed...
Digital Twins – Modeling Infrastructure Systems for Design, Operations, and Management
Digital twins are virtual representations of real systems used to test designs and operating policies in safe environments prior to implementation or...