America’s Economy Rides on Interstate Highways

System Turns 65 on June 29; Remains Backbone of U.S. Economy  WASHINGTON – The development of the 48,000-mile Interstate Highway System (IHS) has been a driving factor in a 340 percent growth in the nation’s gross domestic product over the past 65 years from $3 trillion to today’s $19 trillion, according to research from the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). June 29 marks the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Federal-Aid Road Act signed by Presiden...

Trimble Expands its Geospatial Automated Monitoring Portfolio with Worldsensing Geotechnical IoT Solutions

New Products Enable Trimble’s Global Distribution Channel to Provide a Complete,Turn-Key Automated Monitoring System for Infrastructure and Construction Projects SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the addition of a geotechnical portfolio to its geospatial automated monitoring portfolio through a collaboration with Worldsensing, a wireless connectivity technology provider and an industry-leading manufacturer of geotechnical IoT monitoring systems. The collaboration enab...

Video: Port of Long Beach – The Green Port Through the Years

The Port of Long Beach unveiled an interactive timeline highlighting key milestones in the landmark policy that became a global model for sustainable goods movement. The timeline chronicles the Port of Long Beach’s transformation as it fulfilled its promise to deliver a cleaner harbor, soil and skies while still fostering economic activity during a time of unprecedented change and expansion of the global shipping industry.

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Los Angeles Regional Connector Transit Project Wins The Award For "Project Of The Year Between €50M and €500M"

ITA TUNNELLING AWARDS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION DISCENERED ITS AWARDS IN MIAMI   Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space use. This year the event took place in Miami in conjunction with Cutting Edge Conference of UCA of SME. After editions in Hagerbach (Switzerland), Singapore, Paris (France) and Chuzhou (China), the fifth ITA Tunnelling Awards mo...

Infrastructure HBO Movie Trailer

This funny take on infrastructure first appeared on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. We all need to laugh sometimes.

Video: Bentley Systems Reality Modeling

A video features Bentley Systems' Pascal Martinez speaking about city-scale reality modeling.

Video: Bentley Systems Urban Planning

A video features Bentley Systems' Hakan Engman speaking about transparency and citizen engagement.

Video: Take a Ride on a Slow Moving, Autonomous Shuttle

There is a quiet autonomous vehicle revolution happening at large shopping centers and entertainment complexes, hospitals and college campuses across the country and around the world. A wide range of pedestrians are today being ferried from place to place by a growing fleet of slow moving, electric, autonomous, shuttles. In January, thousands of participants at the Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington, D.C., got to experience their first ever ride in an autonomous vehicle. French...

Castor to Chair Revived Climate Change Committee, May Focus on Transportation

Days before formally becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time, Nancy Pelosi tapped Rep. Kathy Castor, D-FL, to be the chair of the new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis – a committee that played a role in the creation of the 2007 energy act and the 2009 stimulus act, which included $90 billion in spending on green energy and energy efficiency initiatives during its former tenure. Previously known as the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global...