Fall 2017 issue of Horizons

In another state, an innovative visualization tool has been developed to allow the pubic to interact with the city’s budget and allow users to ask questions regarding the budget items. 2017 and Beyond We continue to see additional disruptive technologies emerge. One such technology is known as the Hyperloop. Hyperloop has the potential to change transportation as we know it. Hyperloop is the ability to travel in pods that levitate and glide in a vacuum-sealed tube at speeds approaching 700 mph with almost no aerodynamic drag.

500 mph. The technology has the potential to transform our roads and bridges infrastructure well into the future. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, tweeted in July that he received verbal approval to build a hyperloop tunnel connecting Manhattan, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. The rapid pace technology changes creates opportunities while also creating challenges for governments. RubinBrown suggests that as part of strategy planning, governments consider disruptive technologies, the implications to its constituents and the budget of the future.

Comparatively, the fastest trains travel at 150 mph and airplanes at approximately

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