“The agency financing construction of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge may sell as much as $4 billion of bonds this year to take advantage of federal debt subsidies before they’re scaled back or expire,” writes reporter William Selway.

From structural health monitoring (SHM) to intelligent transportation systems (ITS), intelligent infrastructure is beginning the slow move from purely academic research to practical application. Technology abounds, but engineers and owners are still learning how to make sense of the data overload.