USDOT Announces $500 Million Loan for Port of Long Beach
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau will provide a loan of $500 million under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) to the City of Long Beach, California, acting through its Board of Harbor Commissioners (the Port of Long Beach). “This $500 million federal investment reflects the President’s continued emphasis on infrastructure that will reduce traffic conges...
USDOT Announces Over $1 Billion in Grants to 439 Airports in 50 States
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $1.187 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants. The total includes $731 million in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants...
States Projecting Big Budget Cuts Due to COVID-19
State governments continue to ratchet back current spending and projected budget outlays due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; reductions that are starting to include planned transportation infrastructure investments. [Above photo by the New York State DOT.] “The coronavirus outbreak has quickly upended state budgets with states now facing significant revenue declines and increased spending demands as they contend with both a public health emergency and a severely deteriorat...
ACI Foundation Funds Research Projects
Farmington Hills, Mich. –The ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council (CRC) selected eight research projects to receive grants this year. The ACI Foundation is committed to progress in the industry by contributing financially to necessary and worthy research. The following research projects will receive funding from the ACI Foundation: Calibration of Simplified Creep and Shrinkage Models Developed Using Solidification Theory: principal investigator Brock Hedegaard, University of Minneso...
State DOTs Feeling the Budgetary Impact of COVID-19
Steep reductions in motor vehicle travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic are adversely affecting state department of transportation budgets – to the point where some agencies are laying off workers and shelving planned transportation projects. [Above photo by the NCDOT.] The North Carolina Department of Transportation noted in an April 21 statement that as it is fully funded through the motor fuels tax, highway use tax and Department of Motor Vehicle fees, the traffic volume falloff is projec...
Nuvocargo Raises $5.3M Seed Round To Modernize Door-to-Door Freight Transportation Between U.S./Mexico
Round co-led by Silicon Valley venture fund NFX and Mexican venture fund ALLVP; funds will help Nuvocargo attract the best talent, take advantage of high demand for establishing new U.S./Mexico supply chains NEW YORK - Nuvocargo, the first digital freight forwarder and customs broker for U.S./Mexico trade, announced today that it has raised a $5.3M seed round co-led by NFX and ALLVP, with participation from One Way Ventures, Maya Capital, Magma Partners, the co-founders of LatAm unicorn Ra...
$404,000 Grant Funds Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience and South Atlantic Region Project
Research partners to evaluate solutions for cost-effective flood mitigation in coastal cities DELAND, Florida – Many coastal cities are sinking and becoming more susceptible to climate change. As the world and oceans become warmer, rising sea levels will continue to cause flooding and storm surge in low-lying areas. A new grant gives researchers throughout the southeast the opportunity to discover green infrastructure solutions to mitigate the effects of this flooding on coastal communi...
Data Analysis Recovers $2.27M in FSRM Funding at Air Force Base
Woolpert GIS Specialist Matthew Wellinski discovers data anomalies in FSRM funding at Hurlburt Field and develops a process that could translate to savings across the Air Force. HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (April 20, 2020) — Hurlburt Field will receive an additional $2.27 million in Facilities, Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (FSRM) funding thanks to data anomalies discovered by Woolpert GIS Specialist Matthew Wellinski. Hurlburt Field is home to the Air Force Special Operations Command a...
USDOT Announces $1 Billion for Amtrak in Response to COVID-19
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is making over $1 billion available to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to support the railroad’s activities to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States and its impacts on operations and business. The funding is being provided under the recently e...
USDOT to provide $25B for transportation system response to COVID-19
U. S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the U. S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration will allocate a total of $25 billion in federal funding to help the public transportation system respond to COVID-19. The funding, provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, would provide grants to recipients of urbanized area and rural area formula funds to be used for capital, operating and other expenses the recipients may need them f...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
