Officials from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced a new webinar with Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC) Institute that will emphasize Pennsylvania’s bridge replacements. Anthony Foxx, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, recently launched BATIC. The webinar is scheduled for November 4. Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) recently announced that it will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday for the new U.S. Highway 52 project in Rushville, Indiana. Completed on the west side of Rushville, the $4-million project involved installing water mains and storm sewers, removing the current roadbed, construction of the full-depth asphalt pavement on top of treated subgrade, and adding sidewalks that have ramps that comply with the ADA. Read More »

Rep. Bill Shuster (R–PA), the Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, recently released a statement about the bipartisan Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015. In it, Shuster expressed confidence the House and Senate could reach a workable solution on the bill to fund as well as extend the authorization of federal highway and transit programs. Read More »

TransCore of Nashville, Tennessee will develop the initial design for a Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program that was awarded up to $20 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation last month. Up to 10,000 cars, busses, and limousines will eventually be retrofitted with this technology that may significantly reduce traffic congestion and lessen greenhouse gas emissions. Read More »

Officials from the city of Ironwood and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for the reopening of U.S. 2 in Ironwood. The two-year $14.4-million project included lane widening, utility upgrades, construction of a center left-turn lane and sidewalks along U.S. 2, a major route connecting Michigan and Wisconsin. Read More »

The Association of American Railroads' most recent weekly report on U.S. rail traffic puts total traffic at 553,144 intermodal units and carloads for the week that ended Oct. 24, a decrease of 5.6 percent when compared to the same period in 2014. Total carloads amounted to 284,523, a decrease of 7.4 percent when compared to the same week from last year. Read More »

Federal, state and local leaders met Tuesday in Denver, Colorado, for the last of 11 regional forums on the Beyond Traffic draft framework.Beyond Traffic, the U.S. Department of Transportation's draft framework for the future, is an outline of the challenges the transportation and infrastructure network will face in the next 30 years. Read More »

While funding for federal transportation projects lurches from one short-term extension to the next, Henderson County, part of the metropolitan area of Ashville, North Carolina, has remained more or less unaffected by the lack of stability. “I am not aware of any direct impact of federal funding on current transportation projects in Henderson County,” County Commissioner Bill Laspley said.  Read More »

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) released a report based on the efforts of over 1,500 people who were asked to walk or bicycle to conduct safety assessments. The report, titled "Pedestrian and Bicyclist Road Safety Assessments," showed a variety of factors that affect safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, such as physical barriers including missing crosswalks or missing curb cuts. Read More »

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it started its first phase with the Waze Connected Citizens program, which will help drivers access real-time traveler information through phones, websites, and mobile apps. The Waze data comes from the Waze mobile app that is gathered through crowd-sourced data from drivers who report on traffic disruptions. Read More »

The $29-billion Capital Program will finance thousands of new train cars, subway cars, and buses. It also set aside an additional $2.8 billion to improve subway stations, instal countdown clocks at most of the subway stations, and finish the implementation of the Positive Train Control technology on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. Read More »

The Arizona Department of Transportation recently launched a new project, which will provide students and local residents with a new pedestrian hybrid beacon on State Route 86 in Sells, Arizona. The project, which is in collaboration with the Tohono O’odham Nation, will have crews install a crosswalk signal that will be activated by pedestrians. Completion is expected in January. Read More »

Seattle Department of Transportation is asking for its citizens' help and input on Pedestrian Master Plan. In 2009, Seattle announced a 20-year master plan to make Seattle the most walkable city in the nation. This plan is to help Seattle Department of Transportation improve walkability in the city. The short survey will be open for comments through the end of November. Read More »

The value of freight from US-NAFTA amounted to $92.4 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.. All of the various modes of transportation showed that they had carried less value of freight when compared to August 2014. Experts attribute the declines to the fall in prices for mineral fueling, not a decrease volume of freight that needs to be transported. Read More »

Now open, the project is the result of a partnership between MDOT, the townships of Crockery and Robinson as well as Ottawa County. The goal was to repair the new two-lane route to give necessary additional crossing over the Grand River. Officials say the seven-mile road will reduce congestion throughout Ottawa County, one of the state's fasting growing counties. Read More »

The program will build upon the pilot in a number of ways, including using newer vehicles, increasing enforcement resources, making the service more efficient during disruptions, and requiring shuttle operators to certify they are in labor harmony. The program will base the shuttles around locations that were successes during the pilot period. Read More »

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) representatives held a discussion session Monday on substance-impaired driving at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. "Impairment on our highways remains a preventable public health threat that kills thousands of Americans every year,” NTSB Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said. “It is an epidemic on wheels.” Read More »

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) said Friday that drivers logged 277.3 billion miles on U.S. roads in August, posting the 18th straight month that mileage has increased. The FHWA released the data in its “Traffic Volume Trends” report for August. The report is a monthly estimate of road travel within the U.S. that was seasonally adjusted. Read More »

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics released guidelines for reporting on-time data from airlines throughout 2016. BTS estimates that it will be receiving reports of on-time data from 12 airlines during 2016. BTS said all airlines that have revenue exceeding 1 percent of the total scheduled-service domestic passenger revenue during the 12 months that ended June 30 must report. Read More »

The Port of Indiana - Jeffersonville received a $10-million federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant on Friday to complete truck-to-rail and rail-to-water improvements. The projects will link road, water and rail infrastructures at the port, which is located on the Ohio River directly across from Louisville, Kentucky. Read More »