AASHTO and AAPA Hold Infrastructure Week Briefing on Freight
WASHINGTON - In conjunction with Infrastructure Week (May 15-19), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), and the Congressional PORTS Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) held a panel briefing today on an array of freight related issues. Chief among them was implementation of the freight-related provisions under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the...
HNTB Executive Paul Yarossi named ARTBA Foundation Chairman
WASHINGTON - HNTB Executive Vice President Paul Yarossi, P.E., has been named chairman of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) Board of Trustees. The announcement was made May 17 during the association’s Federal Issues Program in the Nation’s Capital. Yarossi has been a volunteer ARTBA leader for nearly two decades, serving as 2011 chairman and as ARTBA-TDF vice chair since June 2014. His other ARTBA posts have included: sen...
Video: Largest Ship Ever to Dock on East Coast Port
The Port of Savannah, the largest single container terminal in North America, handles the largest ship to ever call the U.S. East Coast. Watch the 30-hour journey of the COSCO Development in Savannah.
Gov. Deal Welcomes COSCO Development
Savannah, Ga. - At an event on the docks of the Port of Savannah today, Governor Nathan Deal, port officials and the maritime community were on hand to welcome the COSCO Development, the largest containership to ever call on the U.S. East Coast as it handled 5,500 containers, a record for Georgia's ports. "This is another example of how the Port of Savannah is the gateway not just for the U.S. Southeast, but for America's East Coast," said Georgia Governor Nathan Deal. "The numbers are i...
Statewide Wildlife Safety Mitigation Efforts Prove Beneficial
STATEWIDE―One evening in early April, Deb, a Southwest Colorado resident, was traveling on US Highway (US) 160 near Mancos when she hit a deer. "Well, that deer actually hit me," Deb explained. "I did not have a moment to react! This doe was running full-force and ran right into my front end. I pulled over only to find my hood bent, fender damaged and headlight gone. I realize this could have been a life-threatening situation, and I'm certain this will result in a couple thousand dollars in d...
Congressional Leaders to Discuss Highway Trust Fund Fix & Infrastructure Package May 17 at Transportation Construction Coalition Fly-in
(WASHINGTON) - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), Ranking House T & I Committee Member Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), and House Ways and Means Committee Member Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) will address more than 500 transportation design and construction executives, and labor union officials May 17 during the annual Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) Washington Fly-in. They are...
Sharing Ideas on Innovation in Transit
In San Francisco, riders of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuter rail are all too familiar with the challenge of finding a parking spot at transit stations on weekdays. With thousands of people – 35,000, at last count – on waiting lists to purchase limited monthly permits for BART parking lots, local officials are encouraging transit riders to carpool to maximize potential for daily parking. At an Federal Transit Administration-hosted mobility workshop in April, 11 transit agencies reporte...
Congress Completes Deal That Protects Transportation Funds, Implements FAST Act Increases
Under an agreement to fund all government agencies for the rest of the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, Congress approved 2017 appropriations to maintain highway, transit, aviation, rail and waterway programs and provide another $500 million for the U.S. Department of Transportation's TIGER infrastructure grants. The House passed the omnibus funding measure May 3 and the Senate on May 4, both by solid bipartisan majorities, sending it to President Trump to sign into law before the latest stopg...
Lawmakers in Budget Accord Reject Transportation Program Cuts White House Sought
Congress in its budget agreement for fiscal 2017 rejected a number of cuts in transportation programs that the White House had urged lawmakers to implement, cuts that President Trump has also said he will pursue in his budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. As previously reported, the White House Office of Management and Budget on March 24 sent Congress a list of suggested 2017 budget cuts, recommending among other things that lawmakers zero out the Department of Transportati...
FRA Has Taken Steps To Improve Safety Data Reporting, but Lacks Standard Procedures and Training for Compliance Audits
In 2015, there were nearly 12,000 reported accidents and incidents on our Nation’s railways. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tracks the safety record of the rail industry in its public databases of accident and incident data. However, much of FRA’s safety data are self-reported by the rail industry, which poses challenges in ensuring their accuracy and completeness. We initiated this audit with the objective to assess FRA’s collection and management of railroad safety data. Specificall...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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