DART Awards Uber Contract for Rideshare Services
On Tuesday, May 26, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board awarded a three-year contract to Uber Technologies, Inc., (Uber) for rideshare services to supplement the agency’s successful GoLink program, providing additional capacity across the agency’s 13 GoLink service zones. In January 2017, DART was awarded a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Mobility on Demand Sandbox grant to pilot test an on-demand microtransit service integrated into DART’s GoPass mobile app. Beginning in March...
Clinton County Contracts with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER Imagery Hosting Service
The subscription software will house and support the Southwest Ohio county’s orthoimagery in the cloud, while reducing maintenance costs. WILMINGTON, Ohio — Clinton County, Ohio, has signed an annual contract with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER, a subscription software service that hosts, maintains and facilitates access to geospatial imagery in the cloud. The county owns large volumes of high-quality orthoimagery for use by the public and local, state and federal agencies. “Most counties map...
MALA MIRA HDR - 3D GPR AT ITS BEST
MALA GPR Australia is proud to present MALÅ MIRA HDR, the new GPR array system. It’s the professional choice for large scale 3D GPR mapping and will help customers around the world to create detailed 3D maps of the subsurface with the highest resolution on the market. MALA GPR Australia launches all new MALÅ MIRA HDR, a large area 3D GPR mapping solution with the highest data quality and resolution on the market, highway speed survey capability, improved mechanical design and new user-friendl...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 11 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
(WASHINGTON) - Eleven children of highway workers who were killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive post-high school financial assistance for the 2020-21 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. Now in its 21st year, the program was established with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contracto...
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Receives $120M Build America Loan
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau is providing up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act or TIFIA loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to help finance the Gilcrease Expressway West project. [Above photo by the Ohio Turnpike Authority.] That project consists of a five-mile four-lane divided tollway that includes 22 bridges – two of which span the Arkansas River – four major interchanges, and a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail....
ARTBA Launches New “Fundamentals of U.S. Transportation Construction Safety” Course
WASHINGTON — A national association has developed the transportation construction industry’s most comprehensive safety training course to help dramatically reduce the 700 motorist fatalities and nearly 50,000 injuries that occur annually in and around the nation’s infrastructure improvement project sites. The online “Fundamentals of U.S. Transportation Construction Safety” features modules on falls, electricity, preventing struck-by and caught-in incidents, safety programs, workplace communi...
FINLEY Bridge Engineer, Ton Tu, Obtains P.E. License
FINLEY Engineering Group (FINLEY), a Tallahassee-based bridge design and construction engineering firm, congratulates Ton Tu, P.E., on passing the Professional Engineering examination and officially receiving his Professional Engineering license. During his 3 years with FINLEY, Ton’s most notable projects have included Honolulu Authority For Rapid Transportation HART Extension 3 where he was responsible for the 3D innovative shop drawing of platform girders. Ton has done extensive design work...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces up to a $120.1 Million Loan for the Gilcrease Expressway West Project in Tulsa, OK
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) to help finance the Gilcrease Expressway West Project in Oklahoma. “This $120.1 million federal investment in the Gilcrease Expressway reflects the President’s continued emphasis on infrastructure...
Next Generation of Drone Surveying System Features Now Available from Microdrones
Rome, NY- Fresh off the heels of releasing a new Microdrones as a Service (mdaaS) business model that makes drone surveying and LiDAR accessible to geomatics companies of all sizes, Microdrones announces additional developments that demonstrate a constant commitment to customers. According to Microdrones CEO Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil, “By and large, surveying professionals are still out there getting work done amidst the shutdowns; that’s why we continue to make improvements to our complete system...
Visionary Footbridge/Elevated Park Concept Wins AISC’s Forge Prize
CHICAGO - The judges have spoken, and the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Forge Prize has a 2020 champion! An innovative cantilevered pedestrian bridge and elevated park concept by Rosannah Harding and Matthew Ostrow of HardingOstrow took top honors at a judging event streamed live on YouTube. The pair took home the $10,000 grand prize. The Footbridge concept, intended for a site in Manhattan that connects to the existing High Line, marries the raw look of weathering steel w...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
