DENVER – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration FTA Acting Administrator K. Jane Williams today joined officials in Colorado to highlight $18 million in federal grants statewide to improve the safety and reliability of Colorado…
Caltrans preparing for climate change impacts to California’s transportation system
SACRAMENTO — As part of an effort to identify how climate change will have on California's complex transportation system that millions rely on, Caltrans…
Video: An Urgent Message to the FCC About Saving Lives
In this second installment of a new video series on Transportation TV entitled On Time with Tymon, AASHTO Executive Director Jim Tymon explains why it’s…
Washington State, Oregon Join Forces to Replace I-5 Highway Bridge
Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (D) and Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) launched a bi-state effort on November 18 to replace the Interstate 5 bridge that spans the Columbia River and connects the two states. [Above photo via the Washington State Governor’s…
MIT Report Analyzes Factors That May Impact Personal Mobility Choices
A new report issued by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative (MITEI) details how individual travel decisions will be shaped by complex interactions between technologies, markets, business models, government policies, and consumer…
Autodesk And Virgin Hyperloop One Announce Joint-Effort To Explore Advanced Route Optimization, Transportation Design, And Construction Technology
LAS VEGAS - Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) and Virgin Hyperloop One, a leader of hyperloop technology and the evolution of how the world moves people and goods, announced an alliance to explore new opportunities in extending the value of Building Information Modeling…
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…
Michigan DOT Deploys ‘Robot Boats’ for Bridge Inspections
To improve the detection of streambed erosion and degradation around a bridge’s substructure, the Michigan Department of Transportation is deploying four unmanned surface vessels or USVs equipped with sonar and a topside camera; a vessel allows inspectors…
AI-Based Traffic Project Taps Caltrans for Help
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab computer scientists are working with the California Department of Transportation to combine high performance computing and machine learning with the algorithms that control traffic management systems. Sherry Li As a result, those…
Electric Vehicles Pick Up at a Rapid Pace with Five Million on the Road Worldwide, says GlobalData
We are at the very beginning of the era of electric vehicles (EVs). Today, there are five million EVs on the world’s roads, which is up two million from 2018. China is in the leading position, in terms of the largest EV market, followed by Europe and the…
