Voters Re-elect State Lawmakers Who Supported Gas Tax Increases, New ARTBA Analysis Finds
(WASHINGTON)— Voters in 12 states re-elected 93 percent of 530 state lawmakers who supported a gas tax increase between 2015 and 2018 and ran for re-election in 2018. Winning state lawmakers in Nov. 6 races included 92 percent of Republicans, and 94 percent of Democrats, according to a new analysis from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ (ARTBA-TIAC). The results are consistent with those from the last five years that show sup...
Voters Across the Nation Demonstrate Support for Transportation Investment
(WASHINGTON)— Voters in 31 states Nov. 6 once again showed their support for transportation infrastructure investments, approving 272, or 79 percent, of 346 state and local ballot measures. In total, the approved initiatives are expected to generate over $30 billion in one-time and recurring revenue, according to the analysis conducted by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ (ARTBA-TIAC). The 2018 preliminary results reaffirmed...
Guide to Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation for Departments of Transportation
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 885: Guide to Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation for Departments of Transportation presents guidance for government transportation agencies on encouraging and sustaining a culture of innovation within the organization, its partners, and other stakeholders. A culture of innovation supports agency managers and staff efforts to encourage and accept innovation as a means to enhance the agency’s success. This gui...
North Dakota DOT Releases 5-Year Vision Zero Plan
The North Dakota Department of Transportation unveiled an ambitious five-year “Vision Zero Plan” that is viewed as a starting point for eliminating both fatalities and injuries due to motor vehicle crashes on the state’s highways. “There were 116 motor vehicle crash fatalities in North Dakota in 2017 [and] an interim goal identified in North Dakota’s Vision Zero Plan is to reduce annual motor vehicle crash fatalities to fewer than 75 by 2025,” Ashlee Doan, a public information officer for Nor...
Video: New Champlain Cable-Stayed Bridge
Our web series "Inside the giant" continues and this time, we talk about the Cable-Stayed Bridge and the installation of the main span segments and stays. The Cable-Stayed bridge is the signature element of the bridge and gives the structure a modern and uncluttered elegance. Frédéric Guitard, Area Manager, and Antonio Caracena, Superstructure Engineer, explain the challenges faced in the course of these complex operations
USDOT Announces Final Rule to Accelerate Project Delivery
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule today to amend Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that will accelerate project delivery. To date, the new rule is one of the department’s most expansive regulatory realignments of federal environmental transportation policy. “As directed by Congress, this much-needed rule will accelerate the delivery of new...
Helsinki City Transport Adopts Teleste’s S-AWARE® Platform to Build a Unified Situational Awareness System for the Helsinki Metro
Turku, Finland – 31 October 2018 – Teleste Corporation reveals that its S-AWARE® platform has been selected by Helsinki City Transport (“Helsingin kaupungin liikenneliikelaitos”) to drive improved situational awareness and safer travelling across the Helsinki metro system. The deployment of the platform will be started in 2019 and the project will be carried out in several phases and be completed the end of the year 2020. The total value of the deployment will be more than two million euros....
Wolf Administration Announces the Opening of Indiana CNG Transit Fueling Station
Harrisburg, PA – Today, the Wolf Administration announced the formal opening of service at one of the 29 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations planned as part of a Public Private Partnership. Officials from PennDOT, Trillium CNG, and IndiGO-Indiana marked the start of fueling at the facility at 1657 Saltsburg Ave., Indiana. "This addition to our growing ranks of transit-based CNG stations means savings for transit operators and a step towards a better environment," Governor Wolf said....
MUJI and Sensible 4 Created Gacha -The First Autonomous Shuttle Bus in the World for All Weather Conditions
MUJI and Finnish autonomous driving company Sensible 4 have combined their expertise to create an elegant robotbus, first in the world to function in all weather conditions. The vehicle will be displayed to public in its premiere March 2019 in Helsinki. For this shuttle Sensible 4 provides the autonomous driving technology which ensures the vehicle with superior positioning, navigation and obstacle detection performance thus allowing autonomous driving throughout the year regardless of the e...
Annual Study Updates Impact of Traffic Congestion on Job Access Within Major U.S. Cities
The latest research updates for an annual study overseen by the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota estimates the impact of traffic congestion on access to jobs indicates that Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco are now the top three U.S. metropolitan areas for “loss in job accessibility” due to traffic congestion. [Above photo by Minnesota DOT.] The new rankings are part of the Access Across America study, which began in 2013 and is sponsored by the National Acce...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
