Greenspot Road Bridge in Highland, California Wins 2016 Project of the Year Award from American Public Works Association
T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Greenspot Road Bridge, formally named the Jennifer Lynne Brookes Memorial Bridge, in Highland, California, has won the 2016 American Public Works Association (APWA) Project of the Year Award in the Small Cities/Rural Communities: Transportation category. TYLI served as Lead Designer of the bridge and Prime Consultant to the City of Highland for the project approval and environment...
Schindler Selected to Modernize and Maintain Elevators and Escalators for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)
MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Schindler Elevator Corporation has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to modernize and maintain 109 elevators and 116 escalators at 38 stations throughout the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) system. MARTA is the eighth largest rapid transit system in the United States, providing service to more than 134 million riders annually in Atlanta, Ga., including service to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest in the world. “...
APWA Joins Partners to Mark FHWA’s Traffic Incident Management Emergency Responders Training 200,000 Milestone
WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Public Works Association (APWA) joined partners at the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. this week to mark the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Traffic Incident Management (TIM) emergency responders training 200,000 milestone. The TIM training is part of a national effort to improve the safety of “first responders” who arrive on the scene of highway crashes. APWA members, who are public works professionals, and other traffic incident ma...
Providence's T.F. Green Airport Runway 5 Extension Awarded ISI Envision(R) Gold
WASHINGTON, D.C. – – Providence’s Runway 5 Extension at T.F. Green Airport (PVD) has received the Envision rating system’s Gold award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), which recognizes sustainable infrastructure across the full range of environmental, social, and economic impacts. Operated by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC), the project is the 16th overall Envision-rated project and first project rated in Rhode Island. The lengthening of T.F. Green’s main r...
A Crash for Safety – DLR Testing New Crash Concept for Future High Speed Trains
Rail accidents, even those that occur at low speeds, can have devastating consequences – in many cases, hundreds of tons of moving mass collide with each other, and carriages crash into each other or even derail. In order to protect passengers and crew members and minimise the consequences of accidents, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have developed a new kind of crash concept. It involves the use of special crumple zones, which are loc...
CDOT Launches Spanish-Language DUI Campaign
STATEWIDE — Determined to reduce the growing number of Hispanics who die in car crashes each year, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is launching a new Spanish-language impaired driving (DUI) television public service announcement (PSA). “Safety is a top priority for CDOT and this PSA continues our efforts to reach Colorado residents with culturally- and linguistically-relevant safety messaging,” said Sam Cole, CDOT Communications Manager. “The loss and suffering that comes wit...
Pennsylvania Selected to Host State Transportation Innovation Council Roundtable Discussion
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Leslie S. Richards today joined US Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Victor Mendez, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Administrator Gregory Nadeau and FHWA Division Administrator Renee Sigel to showcase the Pennsylvania State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC). Pennsylvania was chosen to host because of the success of the Pennsylvania STIC. “We are proud to be playing a leading role nationally...
ADOT Honored for US 89A Repairs After 2015 House Rock Flash Flood
PHOENIX - After a spectacularly strong monsoon dumped 1.5 inches of rain on northern Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs in just 15 minutes, it was no surprise that mud and rocks had covered US 89A. But when Arizona Department of Transportation crews arrived on that day in August 2015, what they saw stopped their bulldozers in their tracks: boulders the size of elephants – 15 feet in diameter – and mud in seven different slides that covered portions of 24 miles of the only road across a wide area nort...
U.S. Department of Transportation Honors PennDOT in Nation’s First Highway Innovation Showcase
HARRISBURG, Pa. – U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary Victor Mendez and Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau joined state and local officials today at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Innovation Showcase, and recognized the Keystone State as a model for the nation in using state-of-the-art technologies on its highway projects. “For many years, Pennsylvania has inspired other states with their transportation innovations,” said Deputy Secretary Mendez. “The PennD...
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Achieves Major Milestone With Carbon Neutral Recognition
DFW AIRPORT, Texas - Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport has become the first airport in North America to achieve Carbon Neutral status, one of only 23 airports worldwide to achieve the milestone distinction. The Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) Program upgraded DFW Airport to "Level 3+ Neutrality", which is the highest level of environmental achievement available to airports. The recognition culminates nearly two decades of sustainability efforts by DFW Airport to reduce its own e...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
