An infrastructure energy generation system comprising plurality of photovoltaic structures installed along a road or transportation route to generate electricity from solar energy. An electricity transmission line is installed along said road or transportation route which is connected to vehicle charging facilities, electric trains, electric buses, electric trucks, transportation facilities and roadside lights. The electricity transmission line is connected to at least one electricity generation source such as a generator or an electric battery. The infrastructure energy generation system is configured as a Distributed Energy Resource (DER), a microgrid, a grid-tied electrical system or an off-grid electrical system.

A Flow Boulevard system of transportation for existing urban and suburban streets which optimizes vehicular capacity and flow for at grade facilities having intervening crossing streets is provided. The system may be applied to a single street right of way having two-way traffic with a median and enables packs of traffic to continuously flow in both directions concurrently. Flow Boulevards may be connected through interchanges supporting continuously flowing traffic to that connect to couplets of one-way streets to define networks of high vehicular capacity and continuous flowing traffic over large urban areas. Lane signals are provided to optimize traffic flow in each flow boulevard lane and at each interchange.

A method and system provide the ability to design a (land) surface. A triangular surface mesh representative of an existing surface is obtained. The mesh includes triangles that are connected by vertices and edges. Design constraint sets are determined based design constraints. The design constraints include a maximum slope constraint for a first triangle of the two or more triangles in the triangular surface mesh. The maximum slope constraint is a maximum angle between a normal vector of the first triangle and a reference vector. Heights of the vertices of the first triangle are projected onto the design constraint sets such that the normal vector satisfies all of the design constraints. The projecting includes modifying the heights by a minimum Euclidian distance. A design of the surface represented by the triangular surface mesh is generated based on the projecting.

An elevated roadway for autonomous vehicles may include a pylon extending vertically from a ground anchor and comprising a metal tube defining a central cavity and a concrete column within the central cavity. The elevated roadway further includes a bracket coupled to the pylon and comprising a mounting plate secured to the pylon and a cantilevered road support member extending from the mounting plate. The elevated roadway may further include a cantilevered road section coupled to the pylon via the cantilevered road support member and comprising a joist structure structurally coupled to the cantilevered road support member, a road member above the joist structure and supported by the joist structure, and first and second side barriers along first and second sides of the road member, respectively. The road member may be adapted to receive a four-wheeled roadway vehicle.

An elevated roadway for autonomous vehicles may include a pylon extending vertically from a ground anchor and comprising a metal tube defining a central cavity and a concrete column within the central cavity. The elevated roadway further includes a bracket coupled to the pylon and comprising a mounting plate secured to the pylon and a cantilevered road support member extending from the mounting plate. The elevated roadway may further include a cantilevered road section coupled to the pylon via the cantilevered road support member and comprising a joist structure structurally coupled to the cantilevered road support member, a road member above the joist structure and supported by the joist structure, and first and second side barriers along first and second sides of the road member, respectively. The road member may be adapted to receive a four-wheeled roadway vehicle.

An electrical power generating apparatus with one or more platforms, securely positioned on a surface, for example, highways are disclosed. The platform is comprised of one or more cavities, configured to receive push force to rotating force conversion systems and one or more generators. The platform further comprises a plurality of protrusions, configured to move upward and downward via a reset member via a plurality of apertures on a top portion of the platform. At least one protrusion is connected to the push force to rotating force conversion system. The generators are coupled to a shaft that is rotated by the push force to rotation force conversion system and configured to generate electrical power when an external force is applied on at least any one of a protrusion by a moving object. The generated electric power is transferred to an electric power grid and electric storage devices using conductors.

An electrical power generating apparatus with one or more platforms, securely positioned on a surface, for example, highways are disclosed. The platform is comprised of one or more cavities, configured to receive push force to rotating force conversion systems and one or more generators. The platform further comprises a plurality of protrusions, configured to move upward and downward via a reset member via a plurality of apertures on a top portion of the platform. At least one protrusion is connected to the push force to rotating force conversion system. The generators are coupled to a shaft that is rotated by the push force to rotation force conversion system and configured to generate electrical power when an external force is applied on at least any one of a protrusion by a moving object. The generated electric power is transferred to an electric power grid and electric storage devices using conductors.

A sustainable pavement is constructed by creating a construction structure for a hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement according to a pavement project; calculating a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission of the HMA pavement; performing a sustainable construction on the HMA pavement to modify one or more layers in the HMA pavement to form a sustainably constructed pavement; calculating a GHG emission of the sustainably constructed pavement; and obtaining a carbon reduction by comparing the GHG emissions of the HMA pavement and the sustainably constructed pavement.

A sustainable pavement is constructed by creating a construction structure for a hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement according to a pavement project; calculating a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission of the HMA pavement; performing a sustainable construction on the HMA pavement to modify one or more layers in the HMA pavement to form a sustainably constructed pavement; calculating a GHG emission of the sustainably constructed pavement; and obtaining a carbon reduction by comparing the GHG emissions of the HMA pavement and the sustainably constructed pavement.

The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional ground model generation and an automated earthwork target model generation system based on a parameter input.