BATON ROUGE – A consortium of universities led by LSU has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish a regional transportation research center. The Transportation Consortium of South-Central States, or Tran-SET, will focus…
U.S. Drivers Log 2.4 Trillion Miles In First Nine Months of 2016
WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving…
New Report Documents Progress and Needed Investment to Move Freight Programs Forward In the 21st Century
WASHINGTON –The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Association of Port Authorities are today releasing…
Jacksonville Transportation Authority Selects Pond | Michael Baker International JV Team’s Innovative ‘JAXIS’ Design for New Regional Transportation Center
Pittsburgh – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, as part of the Pond | Michael Baker International JV, was selected by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) to design a state-of-the-art…
FRA Wants All Passenger Train Operators Tested for Sleep Apnea
Federal regulators want all passenger train operators in the U.S. tested for sleep apnea after the engineer in September’s deadly New Jersey commuter train crash was found to have the dangerous, fatigue-inducing disorder. The Federal Railroad Administration…
Razor Secure CEO Warns Transport Companies of More Cyber Threats
Following the recent ‘cyber-jacking’ of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni), Alex Cowan, the CEO of transport cyber defence experts Razor Secure, has warned rail, aviation and car manufacturers and operators that many more attacks…
Will 2017 be the Year of Driverless Cars?
You’ve heard about driverless cars, right? We’re talking about real cars that can actually drive themselves around, thanks to radar, lidar and other technological devices. Things are moving fast in the automotive industry, and many believe that 2017 will…
Honolulu Rail Transit Project Makes Roads & Bridges’ 2016 Top 10 Bridges List
The Honolulu Rail Transit Project ranked No. 4 on Roads & Bridges 2016 Top 10 Bridges list. HNTB Corporation led design for the first 10 miles of an elevated guideway and a maintenance and train storage facility on the project, which includes a new 20-mile…
Technology Companies Move into Transportation
(Pleasanton, CA) December 05, 2016—Tech companies are moving to the automotive market, because that’s where the money is. In mid-November, Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, took the stage at the Los Angeles Auto Show to deliver his company’s…
ITD Engineers Find $700,000 Savings, Traffic Efficiencies in Replacement of Owsley Canal Bridge in Eastern Idaho
RIGBY - In a tight budget environment where every dollar counts, Idaho Transportation Department engineers again found a way to safely stretch resources and still perform a needed replacement of an old bridge in the small, eastern Idaho town of Mud Lake. The…
