The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music and art festival in Austin, Texas, hosted various government and transportation industry leaders this week in a panel discussion on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as drones. Read More »

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued a final rule that aims to improve safety oversight in the U.S. rail industry. Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) said this week that it has granted E&B Paving a contract to resurface and repair a stretch of U.S. Highway 36 running through Sulphur Springs. Read More »

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said this week that it has extended the compliance deadline to implement its final rule on bus leasing and interchange until Jan. 1, 2018. Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) recently awarded 65 infrastructure construction contracts totaling $117 million for bridge replacement and rehabilitation projects, repairs, road paving projects and maintenance work. Read More »

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other federal agencies involved in managing unmanned aircraft operations have added more partners to the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Executive Committee (UAS EXCOM). Read More »

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) recently awarded Milestone Contractors a $332,000 contract to build erosion-control measures along the Whitewater River, near State Road 121 between U.S. Highway 52 and Laurel. Read More »

Fulton Center, a transit hub in New York City, is the first subway station that has ever received a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating, which granted New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) a LEED Silver certification for the station. Read More »

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) reached a milestone this week on the State Route 520 floating-bridge project, as crews added the first three of many bridge-girder placements to the west of the floating bridge. Read More »

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) officials recently scheduled the final paving that is needed to finish the US 93 project north of Wickenburg, from milepost 185 to milepost 190. The department warns drivers that they should make extra time for delays from March 21, which is the start of the final paving, to March 31. Read More »

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs has joined with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to create Flow, the nation’s first platform that is designed to transform the outcomes of transportation with citizen engagement and analytics. Flow would provide unprecedented city-wide transportation analytics to assist cities in identifying underserved areas and resolving congestion. Read More »

Leaders at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), recently ordered the J and J Transportation trucking company, also called John A. Robles (USDOT No. 2497430), be shut down. FMCSA has declared that the company is an imminent hazard to the safety of the public. The officials ordered it to stop all of its interstate and intrastate operations on Feb. 25. Read More »

Crews with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) need to restrict lanes overnight along Interstate 65 between Greenwood and Franklin in order to complete pavement patching. These plans will continue as long as the weather allows. All of the restrictions will start at 9 p.m. and then finish at 6 a.m. The restrictions will begin on March 21. Read More »

Officials with the Association of American Railroads (AAR) recently released a report about U.S. rail traffic rates from the week that ended on March 12, 2016. During this week, U.S. weekly rail traffic amounted to 489,177 intermodal units and carloads. This shows an 11.6 percent decline compared to the same week in 2015. Read More »

The Air Travel Consumer Report from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) shows that there has been an overall increase in on-time performance for January 2016 compared to December 2015 and January 2015. January 2016 on-time performance stood at 81.3 percent. For January 2015, the rate was 76.8 percent, and for December 2015, the rate was 77.8 percent. Read More »

Two topics Loren is likely to talk about are energy-related jobs and the Obama Administration’s recent decision to bar drilling in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), located just off North Carolina’s shores. Read More »

Drivers in Miami County, Indiana, should be on the lookout for workers on the shoulder between C.R. W 900 S and C.R. E 400 S starting this week and running into the summer months as the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) begins pipe work. Read More »

Andy Marsh, CEO of New York-based hydrogen fuel-cell technology provider Plug Power Inc., gave a presentation on the company's hydrogen fuel cell and other products Monday at the New Energy Vehicle International Forum 2016 this week in Shanghai, China. Read More »

The public is invited to an open house, hosted by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the City of Saline, during which a project to rebuild US-12 (Michigan Avenue) between North Maple Road/Old Creek Drive and the east side of the bridge at Mill Pond in Saline will be discussed. Read More »

A year after he launched the Mayor's Challenge for Safer People and Safer Streets -- an initiative that 243 cities across the U.S. have joined -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently unveiled a new program, the Mayors' Challenge Awards. Read More »