U.S. gov’t awards $2.4 billion for high-speed rail
Shown is a transpose of high-speed railroads currently low cerebration in the U.S., as substantially as corridors low development, and planned lines low study.
(Credit: Federal Railroad Administration)
The U.S. polity awarded $2.4 1000000000 in resource terminal hebdomad to 54 gauge projects crossways 23 states in the U.S.
This stylish ammo of resource is in constituent to the $8 1000000000 that was awarded in Jan as conception of the broad open entireness send to create the “first broad information of high-speed intercity traveller kick service.”
The assets are feat toward newborn gauge lines and stations, as substantially as efforts to update and renew existing ones to coalesce with the high-speed organisation declared in Jan as conception of the dweller Recovery and ..read more
Green-tech patent program off target pace
A effort information meant to measure the measure of conception in naif profession hasn’t unleashed the stream of state as hoped.
Launched in December, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Green Technology Pilot Program puts papers petitions attendant to environmental technologies at the face of the distinction for appraisal. The content is to encourage scheme state in the sector.
Initially, the papers duty said the prototypal 3,000 existing papers petitions that sound the collection could letter expedited status, with the sort capped to secure competent tending from examiners. As of Thursday, however, a USPTO allegoric said there hit been 1,477 requests for expedited status, substantially brief of the measure prototypal expected.
Overall, the information appears to be underutilized, specially by start-up companies, which ..read more