Video: AASHTO Executive Director Addresses Urgent Need for State DOT Emergency Funding
As Congress works to reach a bipartisan agreement on providing billions of dollars in additional COVID-19 pandemic relief, Jim Tymon – executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials – highlighted the urgent need to provide state departments of transportation with emergency funding.
SSSBA Publishes New Research Report in Technical Series on Innovative Press-Brake-Formed Steel Tub Girder Bridge Technology
The Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA) has added a new research report to its series on the development and experimental testing of the innovative press-brake-formed steel tub girder (PBTG) bridge system. The new report, “Volume VII: Field Evaluation of a Modular Press-Brake-Formed Steel Tub Girder in an Application That Includes Skew and Superelevation,” is available for free download. The report evaluates the field performance of the Fourteen Mile Bridge in Lincoln County, West Vir...
Video: Arizona DOT Launches App, Including Public Access to Traffic Cams
Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) released this video explaining the features of its now AZ511 app. The travel planner is able to access real-time data from the DOT, has a mode for safe dashboard mounting, and even allows users to access live feeds from traffic cameras.
IBI Group Wins ‘GoTime’ Contract for Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Global technology firm leverages product offering to support improved statewide travel TORONTO - IBI Group (TSX:IBG), in collaboration with Northeast Traffic Control Services, Inc. (NETCS) and Green International Affiliates, Inc., has been selected to provide the Statewide Travel Time System ‘GoTime’ for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). The GoTime system leverages multiple datasets to determine reliable traveler information that gets communicated to the public via Mass5...
LV-LA High-Speed Rail Wins an Additional $200M Bond Allocation
Plans for a new high-speed rail line that will connect Southern California to Las Vegas are forging ahead after the project has been awarded another critical public funding allocation. The XpressWest rail project has won $200 million of private activity bonds from the Nevada State Board of Finance. The Nevada award comes after a California committee, overseen by California Treasurer Fiona Ma, awarded the project $600 million of private activity bonds in April. To raise additional funds for th...
Genova San Giorgio bridge: RINA at the helm of a great Italian engineering success
Constant planning and schedule adjustments, non-stop work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 80 technical specialists dedicated to Project Management, Works Supervision and Safety Coordination has resulted in the bridge being opened on time and on budget. The "Genoa model" is the result of total commitment and round-the-clock management and supervision. Genoa – The Genova San Giorgio bridge reopened just 15 months from the start of construction work. Managing a project of this size and comple...
Roadmap Released for Revamping Transportation Financial Statistics
A new report compiled by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) to help the Bureau of Transportation Statistics seeks to help improve that agency’s publication of revenue, expenditure, and other financial statistics relevant to transportation decision makers. [Above photo by Missouri DOT.] NAPA began work on this report in October 2019 and conducted a series of meetings with industry stakeholders – including the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officia...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Nearly $5 Million to 4 New University Transportation Centers
Centers will focus on 4 key research priorities with a total of nearly $5 million in grants WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced $4.925 million in grants to fund four new Tier 1 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges facing our nation. “These investments in four new transportation research centers will help advance innovation and create new solutions to increase access...
$300 Billion Transportation & Logistics Industry Is Still in Infancy of Digital Transformation
While steady industry growth continues, Lux Research finds that new hurdles arise in agility, sustainability, and visibility BOSTON, MA, JULY 30, 2020 – The transportation and logistics (T&L) industry has observed steady growth for more than 10 years and now represents an over $300 billion industry. The industry has three major challenges – agility, sustainability, and visibility – and companies operating in the industry are hoping to address those challenges through digital transformation. I...
Kansas DOT Begins Highway Expansion Project, Issues CCLIP Funds
Julie Lorenz, secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation (at left in above photo), joined Kansas Governor Laura Kelly (D) (at right in photo) on July 20 to officially “break ground” on a long-delayed U.S. 50 highway expansion project. [Above photo via the Kansas DOT.] Concurrently, the Kansas DOT said it plans to distribute $18.5 million over a two-year period via its City Connecting Link Improvement Program (CCLIP) to fund 36 projects making improvements to state highways that e...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
