India's Ministry of Railways recently awarded GE a $2.6 billion contract to develop and supply 1,000 diesel locomotives for Indian Railways, including $200 million to build a locomotive manufacturing facility in Bihar. “This deal marks a major milestone for both parties,” Richard Simpson, general manager of Global Supply Chain for GE Transportation, told TI Daily News. Read More »

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has announced that M-100 will be closed this coming weekend in Potterville. The closure will start today at 7 p.m. so that crews can begin an innovative construction technique: a bridge slide. The roadway will be reopened to traffic again on November 17 by 6 a.m. The detour route will use Lansing Road, Windsor Highway, and M-100. Read More »

The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport was recently named the second most efficient airport in a nationwide study. The study found that 0.7 percent of the flights that traveled through the airport in the last year had been cancelled. The airport also shows the lowest average departure delay, amounting to a mere seven minutes, of all the airports in the U.S. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is a supporter of infrastructure building up the U.S. economy, and it recently helped a small business in Texas grow. Sharon Douglas, who owns a small business in Fort Worth, Texas, is a good example of how infrastructure opportunities help the national Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU). Read More »

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently published an outline for a guide to investing transportation funds throughout the Northeast Corridor, which reaches from Boston to Washington, D.C. The outline is a Tier 1 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for NEC FUTURE, the long-term investment framework from the FRA for the Northeast Corridor. Read More »

Airlines for America, the industry trade organization of U.S. airlines, recently criticized a provision in the highway bill Congress approved that would divert money intended for aviation security to the highway trust fund. The plan would divert approximately $9.2 billion that was originally collected for aviation security to be invested on transit, highways and bike paths instead. Read More »

All westbound lanes of Interstate 10 between Benson and Tucson, Arizona, are slated to be closed for two days next week while crews work on replacing the bridge at Davidson Canyon. The closure is scheduled to last from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 5 a.m. Wednesday; eastbound lanes will remain open. Traffic will be redirected on a detour that extends 67 miles. Read More »

The Michigan Department of Transportation has scheduled an informational public meeting on Nov. 24 to discuss an upgrade project for the U.S. 31 bascule bridge in Charlevoix in northern Michigan. The project, scheduled to start in late 2016, will involve painting the bridge's steel superstructure, repairing mechanical and electrical systems and improving bridge approaches. Read More »

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) released data on U.S. rail traffic for the first week of November, which ended Saturday. U.S. rail traffic for the week amounted to 539,165 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 5.2 percent from same week in 2014. Four of the 10 carload commodity groups showed an increase when compared to the first of November in 2014. Read More »

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) criticized a new report that calls rail bridges unsafe. The AAR said the analysis from Waterkeeper Alliance uses flawed assumptions as well as naive evaluations to make people doubt the safety of bridges used by railroads. The report used anecdotal observations made by Waterkeeper members who were not bridge safety experts, AAR said. Read More »

IHS Inc. opened its new website that is specially designed to serve the worldwide maritime industry to the public on Wednesday.The website, fairplay.ihs.com, aims to be the top resource for important analysis and news about the maritime industry. The website replaces www.ihsmaritime360.com and gives readers in-depth, daily, analytical editorial content about the maritime industry. Read More »

The U.S. House voted 236-187 last week to reject proposed legislation that would have put heavier trucks on U.S. highways and cost billions of tax dollars in damaged bridges and roads. The controversial proposed amendment to highway funding legislation would have allowed trucks on U.S. highways to weigh up to 91,000 pounds. Currently, trucks can weigh a maximum of 80,000 pounds Read More »

Seattle's Department of Transportation and Department of Planning and Development will holdi an open house Nov. 18 to seek feedback about ongoing development as Sound Transit prepares for a new light rail line to Ballard. The departments are working with nonprofits and neighborhood groups to create a study recommending improvements for multimodal transportation in the area. Read More »

Members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and transportation leaders will meet Friday in New Orleans to discuss water infrastructure issues at a congressional roundtable titled “The Importance of Port, Waterway, Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Improvements to the Nation’s Economy: Concepts for the Next Water Resources Development Act.” Read More »

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) said Monday it has opened the new West Dowling Extension between C Street and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage. The $47 million extension project was part of a complex, multiphased, multimodal connection designed to improve the east-west links throughout the Anchorage community. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded a $20.8 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program grant to be used to replace unreliable vans and buses in rural communities throughout Texas. The grant will be dedicated to replacing over 300 unreliable public vehicles throughout Texas, which has the largest rural population in the U.S. Read More »

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the city of Auburn Hills opened the new University Drive and Interstate 75 interchange in Auburn Hills on Tuesday. The new diverging diamond interchange (DDI) enables better safety for drivers who are entering or exiting the freeway. DDI erases conflict points, like left turns, and improves the safety of pedestrians. Read More »

GE said it has been awarded a contract from India's Ministry of Railways to supply 1,000 diesel locomotives for Indian Railways. GE said the contract is worth approximately $2.6 billion over 11 years. As part of the deal, GE said it will build a manufacturing facility in the state of Bihar. This is the largest deal GE has made in the 100 years it has been working with India. Read More »

Automotive News released a special issue Monday celebrating its 100 Leading Women in the North American Auto Industry and praising their accomplishments. The leading women come from 14 automotive disciplines. They range from designers to manufacturers to dealer principals to engineers. These women make formidable decisions and have a significant impact on their companies. Read More »

Idencia will be used to track precast deck panel information that has been specifically created to rehabilitate Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Bridge. Workers from the concrete producer will embed the Cast-A-Code® RFID tags from Idencia into the panels as they are being manufactured. Later, workers from MassDOT will scan the tags to record information about the use of the panels. Read More »