WSP USA Offers Mobility Marketplace Service
Allows transportation agencies to implement a single payment system for mobility services to reduce cost, increase revenue and create efficiencies that better meet diverse customer needs. NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, is now offering its Mobility Marketplace – a full suite of integrated services to help transportation agencies solve their modern transportation challenges using Future Ready® technology. “The Mobility Marketplace will i...
Mandatory Minimum Retroreflectivity Standards For Pavement Markings On US Roads
After a long period of consultation and assessment the Federal Highway Administration has announced the standards required in maintaining minimum levels of retroreflectivity for pavement markings to all roads open to public travel in the United States. This is a welcome update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and it is believed that it will play a key role in reducing transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries. The ruling will also help to support the oper...
LDG and Union County Officials Rededicate Historic Covered Bridge
MIFFLINBURG, PA – This week, a rededication and ribbon cutting ceremony was held for Union County Bridge No. 13, the Hassenplug Covered Bridge — one of the oldest covered bridges in America open to the traveling public. Last partially rehabilitated in 1959, design engineer, Larson Design Group, and contractor, Nestlerode Contracting Company, completed the project that addressed the steel bridge deficiencies and included replacing the bridge desk, repairing deteriorated areas of the near abutment...
Video: The New Work Zone Clearing House Web Site
The National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse is dedicated to providing the transportation construction industry and the general public with comprehensive information to improve motorist, worker and pedestrian safety in roadway work zones. www.workzonesafety.org
HDR Expert Shares Sustainable, Modern Strategies for Keeping Intermodal Freight Moving
OMAHA, Neb. — Intermodal freight terminals play a crucial role in keeping goods moving through the global supply chain. And ensuring that these important facilities work as smoothly as possible is critical as the industry faces continued capacity challenges and labor shortages. Chad Hewitt (courtesy HDR) In the latest interview from HDR’s Experts Talk series, intermodal facility designer Chad Hewitt discusses how to improve efficiency at intermodal yards, addresses sustainability trends an...
Biden Administration, USDOT Announce Over $233 Million in Grants to Upgrade Intercity Passenger Rail Service
USDOT to Make Another $7.2 Billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Available this Fall WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation today awarded over $233 million to 11 projects in 8 states to improve and modernize vital intercity passenger rail service. Funded by the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program (Partnership Program), these investments will help replace bridges and tunnels along the Northeast Corridor in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Co...
State Transportation Commission Adopts Updated 12-Year Transportation Program
Action Clears Way for Transportation Improvements across Pennsylvania Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania's State Transportation Commission (STC) today updated the 12-Year Program. The new plan anticipates $84 billion will be available over the next 12 years for improvements to roads, bridges, transit systems, airports and railroads. The 12-Year Program, or TYP, is a multimodal, fiscally constrained planning tool used to identify and prioritize Pennsylvania's transportation projects and the fund...
Video: Northeastern Region Winners Named for 2022 America's Transportation Awards Competition
Every year, state departments of transportation from AASHTO's four regions nominate the projects that make a significant difference in the lives of the people who live, work, and play in communities across the country. The America's Transportation Awards competition, sponsored by AASHTO, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, selects the best of those nominated projects and programs in three categories for making our communities safer, stronger, and better. Join host Caroline Kieltyka as she ann...
Video: Using the Equity Imperative to Integrate Transportation Systems
At the 2022 AASHTO Spring Meeting, Diana Mendez, HTNB’s corporate president for infrastructure and mobility equity, served as moderator for a comprehensive panel discussion on how transportation departments can better understand and implement policies to create equity across the transportation landscape. The session’s speakers included Stephanie Pollack, deputy administrator at the Federal Highway Administration; Roger Millar, AASHTO vice president and secretary of the Washington State DOT; Toks...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Funding for 166 Projects to Modernize Transportation Across the Country and Make it More Affordable, Increase Safety and Strengthen Supply Chains
President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law more than doubles the funding for popular RAISE Program this year TUCSON, ARIZONA – Today, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded more than $2.2 billion from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program to help urban and rural communities move forward on projects that modernize roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports, and intermodal transpor...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
