The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) helped to convene a high-level conversation on the future of transportation infrastructure as five finalists squared off in the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge Finale event. The top winner: a proposal from a pair of University of California-Berkeley students to leverage autonomous vehicle technology to develop a surge-priced ?Hyperlane? to ease congestion and improve mobility.

AEM launched the incentivised competition to generate crowd sourced solutions to address the future of infrastructure here in America, and throughout the world. The campaign?s three phases ? Complain, Dream, and Build ? drew hundreds of ideas from across the world about how to revolutionise infrastructure.