ITD Wins Pair of National President’s Transportation Awards, Plus Earns Two of Top Three Spots in Public Voting
BOISE - ITD won a pair of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) President’s awards yesterday (Monday, Nov. 14), and the agency was also recognized for earning two of the top three spots for projects in public voting across the country this fall. The awards and recognition came at the association’s annual gathering, which this year was in Boston. “These awards show that Idaho projects consistently rank among the best in the nation,” explained ITD Direct...
September 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 0.6 percent in September from August, falling for the second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). The September 2016 index level (121.5) was 28.2 percent above the April 2009 low during the most recent recession (Tables 1, 2, and 2A). Freight Transportation Services Index, S...
Transportation Projects in Connecticut and Florida Win Top National Awards
BOSTON – The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation has earned the Grand Prize and the Florida Department of Transportation was voted the People’s Choice Award winner in the 2016 America's Transportation Awards competition. Now in its ninth year, the competition attracted a record 84 project nominees from 39 state transportation departments plus the Dist...
Fugro’s Pavement Structure Surveys for Highways England Reach New Milestone
Fugro has started scanning structural pavement condition data under a 3-year contract, TRASS 3. It is Highways England’s largest ever outsourced contract for pavement structural condition data and is valued at £1.3 million. Since autumn 2014, Fugro has been carrying out Traffic Speed Structural Surveys (TRASS) and the asset integrity specialist has collected and processed data on pavement strength from slip roads and lane 1 of England’s strategic road network. The current work invol...
1Spatial Underpins Web-based Mapping & Asset Management Solution at Network Rail
Cambridge, UK: (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial is the global spatial software firm which manages the world’s largest spatial data. The company was chosen by Network Rail to provide its geospatial technology, which underpins an innovative web-based mapping and asset management solution. One of the UK’s largest infrastructure owners, Network Rail is currently undertaking a five-year £330million transformation programme to improve its approaches to acquisition, storage and usage of asset infor...
Kansas DOT Begins Testing of Drones for Bridge, Tower Inspections
The new Kansas Unmanned Aerial Systems program started test flights last Friday to find ways to use drones for bridge and tower inspections. “Our Aviation and Bridge inspection teams are doing great work in testing drones to enhance the safety of KDOT workers and improve cost efficiencies,” said Acting Transportation Secretary Richard Carlson. “We believe UAS may reduce the need to place our engineers in potentially dangerous situations and we intend to pursue every opportunity that makes t...
CH2M Working with Nevada Department of Transportation to Develop Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Policy Framework
LAS VEGAS - The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) has selected industry thought leader CH2M to develop a concise vision and a collaborative policy framework for continuing autonomous vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) initiatives in the state. Nevada has become a national leader in testing, licensing and authorizing autonomous vehicles on state roads. The Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility – established in early 2016 as an initiative between the Governor’s Office of Economic De...
Kansas UAS Program Tests Drones for Bridge, Tower Inspections
The new Kansas Unmanned Aerial Systems program started test flights last Friday to find ways to use drones for bridge and tower inspections. “Our Aviation and Bridge inspection teams are doing great work in testing drones to enhance the safety of KDOT workers and improve cost efficiencies,” said Acting Transportation Secretary Richard Carlson. “We believe UAS may reduce the need to place our engineers in potentially dangerous situations and we intend to pursue every opportunity that makes th...
BTS Releases Industry Snapshots
The Wholesale and Retail Trade sector relied on the most transportation services of any sector of the U.S. economy, according to Industry Snapshots: Uses of Transportation, a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Table 1, Figure 1). In 2014, the seven non-transportation sectors of the economy relied on more than $1 trillion in transportation services. The Wholesale and Retail Sector used $292 billion, more than one-fou...
Fugro Awarded Further Ground Investigation on Transport Scotland’s A9 Dualling Programme
Wallingford, UK - Fugro has secured a second contract for ground investigations on Transport Scotland’s landmark project to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness. Worth in excess of £1.2M, the package of geotechnical investigations will characterise ground conditions along a 14.5 km section between Tay Crossing and Killiecrankie within the southern part of the dualling. Under the 23-week contract, which has just started on site, Fugro will carry out exploratory drilling and sampling in s...
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