Over 54,000 American Bridges Structurally Deficient, Analysis of New Federal Data Shows
Data Available: www.artbabridgereport.org Highlights: 54,259 of the nation’s 612,677 bridges are rated “structurally deficient.” Americans cross these deficient bridges 174 million times daily. Average age of a structurally deficient bridge is 67 years, compared to 40 years for non-deficient bridges. One in three (226,837) U.S. bridges have identified repair needs. One in three (17,726) Interstate highway bridges have identified repair needs. Website features listing o...
NTSB Most Wanted List 2017-2018
The Most Wanted List represents the NTSB's advocacy priorities. It is designed to increase awareness of, and support for, the most critical changes needed to reduce transportation accidents and save lives.
NTSB Issues Investigative Update on Washington State Amtrak Derailment
As part of its ongoing investigation into the Dec. 18, 2017, derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in DuPont, Washington, the National Transportation Safety Board released Thursday an update about the agency’s investigation.NTSB investigators interviewed the engineer and the qualifying conductor, who were in the lead locomotive during the accident trip. Both suffered serious injuries as a result of the derailment and were not able to be interviewed until the week of Jan. 15, 2018...
ADOT&PF Outlines Emergency Response Activities
(JUNEAU, Alaska) – After last night's 7.9 earthquake, tsunami alerts, and subsequent evacuations in coastal Alaska, the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) is taking the opportunity to outline the department's emergency response activities. "ADOT&PF serves every community in Alaska. We have staff and equipment throughout the state who respond to emergencies to assist with safety and movement of people, goods, and services," said ADOT&PF Commissioner Marc Luiken....
NDOT Announces Selection of County Bridge Match Program Proposals
The Nebraska Department of Transportation this month selected 22 local bridge project proposals to share $4 million in state funding under its County Bridge Match Program. The announcement said the program "will fund 55 percent of eligible bridge construction cost with counties, providing a 45 percent match. The selected proposals include 35 counties and 66 bridges at a total construction cost of $8.5 million, of which $ 4 million is from the CBMP." In all, the NDOT said, 59 counties submi...
Learning Machine Joins Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA)
New York, NY - Learning Machine Technologies, a leading global provider of blockchain-based records for institutions including MIT and the Republic of Malta, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). BiTA is the first association to unite businesses from across the transportation industry around the promise of blockchain technology. On November 16, 2017, BiTA held its inaugural Executive Council Meeting, where Learning Machine presented about the potential of blockchain technolog...
National Transit Database Provides Key Stats on Public Transportation in the U.S.
Did you know that Americans took 10.2 billion trips on public transportation in 2016 and that transit ridership has increased 26 percent during the last 20 years? These facts come from the National Transit Database (NTD), a trove of statistics and information about public transportation in the United States. Established by Congress in 1974, the NTD is the nation’s primary source of publicly available data on transit systems across the country. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) manages...
BTS Releases Updated National Transit Map
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released version two of the National Transit Map, a geospatial database containing information from hundreds of transit agencies that provides open, machine-readable data about their stops, routes, and schedules. The national, openly available map of fixed-guideway and fixed-route transit service in America allows USDOT to demonstrate the importance and role of transit in American society and to identify and...
Michael Baker International Awarded $6.1 Million Contract to Help Reduce Congestion Along Major Dallas Freeway
Pittsburgh (January 17, 2018) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that it was recently awarded a $6.1 million contract by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) services for the Lowest Stemmons Freeway project. The Lowest Stemmons project, a 2.3-mile stretch of Interstate-35E (I-35E) that runs from Interstate-30 to north of Oak Lawn Avenue in Dallas, is de...
State Agency CEOs Say DOTs Evolving Into Providers of Various Mobility Options
Today's state departments of transportation are focused less on building highways and more on safely moving people and goods by various modes, according to a group of state transportation department chief executives. Leslie Richards, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, moderated the Jan. 9 panel on "State DOTs Harnessing All Modes to Move Everybody and Everything" during the annual Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington, D.C. "A big priority for us is t...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
