HNTB Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Public Transportation Should Receive Government Funding
Public transportation funding support transcends every age group and geographic region in the nation, including urban, suburban and rural communities NEW YORK – Key findings include: • Eight-six percent of Americans support government funding for public transportation • A majority (52 percent) believe helping those who cannot drive is most important benefit of public transportation • Almost half of Americans surveyed (49 percent) are interested in access to different transportati...
Gannett Fleming Selected as Prime for Five NCDOT Divisions
(Raleigh, NC)- Global infrastructure and engineering firm Gannett Fleming announced that it will serve as a prime consultant for five North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) divisions and as a subconsultant for two more divisions within the state.“We now have contracting mechanisms in all seven Western region divisions for North Carolina, an outstanding win for Gannett Fleming and a game changer for our operations within the state,” said Terry Snow, PE, a Gannett Fleming vice preside...
Thornton Tomasetti Volunteers Help Build Bridge in Panama
As part of the firm’s TT Gives Back initiative, a team of 10 Thornton Tomasetti engineers from six offices recently traveled to Boca de Lura in Panama’s Coclé Province for an international service mission, partnering with Bridges to Prosperity to help provide a crucial passage over the Lura River for area residents. Since 2001, Bridges to Prosperity has built nearly 300 suspended pedestrian bridges in isolated communities across 22 countries. The trip to Panama is the first Bridges to Pr...
NCDOT Video of I-40 Flooded After Hurricane Florence
The North Carolina Division of Aviation shot drone footage of a flooded I-40 near Mile Marker 387 on Monday. (North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful North Carolina Division of Aviation via Storyful)
GPA Approves $92M Rail Expansion
SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) moved 375,833 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEUs) in August, an 8 percent increase over August 2017. In addition, the GPA handled 86,200 intermodal TEUs, a 33 percent jump. "A strengthening economy and a greater reliance on GPA in major inland markets is driving growth at the Port of Savannah," said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. "We expect this trend to continue as more customers take advantage of Garden City Terminal's centra...
Hawaii DOT Battles Yet Another Tropical Storm
While still working to fix the damage caused by Hurricane Lane in late August, the Hawaii Department of Transportation is now preparing to handle the impact of Tropical Storm Olivia, which made landfall on Sept. 12. The agency said in a pre-storm statement that it paid close attention to safeguarding Hawaii’s commercial harbors (seen above in this U.S. Coast Guard photo) as they play key roles in the supply system everyone in the islands depends upon. HDOT’s highways division also engaged...
State DOTs Respond as Hurricane Florence hits East Coast
Though downgraded to a Category 2 storm before making landfall, the 100 mph-plus winds and heavy rains generated by Hurricane Florence were expected to affect five states along the U.S. east coast: North and South Carolina in particular, along with parts of Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland. All five of them declared states of emergencies well before Florence came ashore, with their respective departments of transportation helping evacuate residents from coastal areas as well as deploying crews...
FRA Announces $46.3 Million in PTC Grant Funding
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration announced today Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for at least $46 million for Positive Train Control (PTC) Systems Grants. This NOFO represents the balance of the $250 million PTC Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program that remained after selections were announced in August. The purpose of the NOFO is to solicit applications for at least $46,301,702 million in PTC Syste...
Report Says Autonomous Trucks Could Create New Infrastructure, Eliminate Jobs
A new 73-page report authored by Steve Viscelli, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and issued by Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Working Partnerships USA on Sept. 5, projects that autonomous trucks could replace as many as...
Subcommittee Hearing Focuses on Fostering Transportation ‘Innovations’
The House of Representatives’ Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit elicited insight concerning a wide array of emerging technologies during a Sept. 5 hearing that “have the potential to improve the safety and productivity” of the U.S. surface transportation system, according to Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., the subcommittee’s chairman (seen above). “The population and amount of freight moving through our nation are projected to increase significantly in the coming d...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
