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Smart Highways. In 2014, the first stretches of the Smart Highway project opened in the Netherlands. The traffic markings are made of a special new luminescent paint, And it’s not just for cars, either: There’s also a bicycle path with glow-in-the-dark stones inspired by Vincent van Gogh. Future goals of the project include road paint that can react to temperature and in turn provide weather warnings to drivers.

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KINETIC FOOTFALL

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Kinetic energy is another technology under development. Pavegen provides a technology that enables flooring to harness the energy of footsteps. It can be used indoors or outdoors in high traffic areas, and generates electricity from pedestrian footfall using an electromagnetic induction process and flywheel energy storage. The technology is best suited to transport hubs where a large flow of people will pass over it. The largest deployment the company has done so far is in a football pitch in Rio de Janeiro to help power the floodlights around the pitch. It also currently has a temporary installation outside London’s Canary Wharf station powering street lights.

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