Innovative Paving Pilot Underway Due to Wolf Administration's 'Road MaP' Initiative
Kittanning, PA – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) officials today discussed an innovative paving method being deployed for the first time in Armstrong County to improve nearly five miles of rural roadway. The pilot, using Recycled Asphalt Paving or RAP, is made possible due to PennDOT's Road Maintenance and Preservation (Road MaP) initiative, which Governor Tom Wolf recently announced will invest $2.1 billion in roadway maintenance and highway and bridge capital projects ov...
USDOT Asks Transportation Stakeholders to Identify ‘Obstacles’ to Building Projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a formal request for industry stakeholders to help federal officials "identify unnecessary obstacles to transportation infrastructure projects." In a June 8 Federal Register notice, the USDOT said it is reviewing its own "policy statements, guidance documents and regulations," and will take public comments through July 24 on "non-statutory requirements that the department imposes and that should be removed or revised." The notice specified that...
Trump’s Infrastructure Push Goes From White House to Ohio River to USDOT
The White House issued additional information about what it wants to see in a new infrastructure investment package, as President Trump, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and other officials took part in a weeklong series of events focused on this major domestic policy goal. While many aspects of the plan are reportedly still taking shape, the events amounted to the most public attention the administration has yet given to the issue since Trump took office. He had campaigned for the presid...
Michael Baker International Creates Safer Roadway with Widening of Highway 70 in Central Arkansas
Pittsburgh (June 13, 2017) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, is playing a critical role in the transformation of the heavily traveled Highway 70 between Interstate 30 and the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The firm recently completed a $4.5 million design project for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) to widen the 19-mile stretch of highway from two lanes to four, in an effort to increase capacity and pro...
Transportation Construction Coalition Statement on Graves-Norton Highway Trust Fund Letter
(WASHINGTON)—The Transportation Construction Coalition commends the 253 bipartisan members of the House of Representative who joined together to advocate for a long-term solution to the Highway Trust Fund’s structural revenue deficit. 119 Republicans and 134 Democrats—a majority of each party’s membership in the chamber—signed a June 12 letter, led by House Highways & Transit Subcommittee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Ranking Member Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-D.C.), to House Ways and Means...
RIDOT Seeking Proposals For Next-Generation Transportation Systems, Including Autonomous Vehicles
The transportation technology of tomorrow could be coming to Rhode Island, as the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) from companies with expertise in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and other technologies. The intent of the RFI is to start a process that puts the Ocean State in a position to be a leader in developing the transportation system of the future. "Rhode Island has always embraced emerging technology. The industrial...
Innovative Partnership Delivering South Mountain Freeway Sooner
PHOENIX – Less than six months after major construction began on the state’s largest single highway project ever, progress on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway has been swift. In Ahwatukee Foothills, future interchanges are taking shape at 17th Avenue and 40th Street, with columns and abutments in place and crews scheduled to begin placing bridge girders next month. In Laveen, 72 large concrete piers form the start of two half-mile-long bridges that will carry traffic over the Salt River. I...
NASA's TASAR Trial Takes Flight on Alaska Airlines With Installation of UTC Aerospace Systems' Aircraft Data Management Solution
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today announced that Alaska Airlines has completed installation of the company's advanced Aircraft Data Management (ADM) solution on three of its 737NG aircraft. The ADM system is designed to help aircraft save time and fuel through its family of software and hardware products, including the Tablet Interface Module (TIM®) and Aircraft Interface Device (AID), both of which have been installed on the Alaska p...
UAS Improves Project Efficiency in Complex Runway Redesign
With the recent addition of new pilots across multiple disciplines at Woolpert, we are constantly leveraging unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology for new applications. In particular, we are focusing on how we can integrate the imagery and data produced from UAS into our design work. Recently, our teams used the technology for the construction monitoring of a complex runway extension, where two different UAS were used to monitor the progress and status of the current development. A...
Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program to Expire in 2 years
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — One of Baxter Springs' most iconic stops on its most iconic highway owes a lot to a federal program that could soon reach the end of its road. Likewise for historic sites in Carthage and elsewhere along Route 66, which linked the Midwest to the West Coast, The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/2ruGWz5 ) reported. The Independent Oil and Gas Station in Baxter Springs and Boots Motel in Carthage, Missouri, are just two of more than 150 projects that have received fundin...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
