ODOT released a new video featuring community stakeholders and ODOT staff discussing recent congestion relief and safety improvements to Interstate 205 in Portland. These improvements include new ODOT RealTime traveler information signs, new auxiliary…
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…
Video: Metsä Pavilion in Tokyo
Metsä Pavilion will be assembled in Tokyo to host Finland’s Olympic and Paralympic teams during the Summer Olympics of 2020. The Pavilion is made entirely…
Video: Tallest Building in Malaysia Nearly Complete
Construction on Southeast Asia's tallest building, the Exchange 106 skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is in its final stages, and the first tenants are expected to move in as early as December 2019. Exchange 106 stands at a staggering 1,438 feet and boasts…
Video: Midway Point Reached On Nevada’s Second-Longest Bridge
The Nevada Department of Transportation reported on November 7 that construction is now halfway done on the state’s second longest bridge: a 2,635-foot-long highway “flyover” structure that will connect northbound U.S. Highway 95 to the westbound 215…
Video: 2019 America’s Transportation Awards Competition Winners
Following nearly eight months of intense competition and thousands of online votes cast, the final two winners in the 2019 America’s Transportation Awards competition have been decided. Sponsored by AASHTO, AAA and the US Chamber of Commerce -- the contest…
Video: China Is Building One of the World’s Largest Hydroelectric Dams
China is building a massive dam across the Qian River in the nation’s southern Guangxi autonomous region. Officials say that when completed in 2023, the Dateng Gorge Water Reservoir will claim the title of world’s largest concrete dam which is currently…
Video: Ford’s Don Butler Focuses on Future of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Connectivity
In a speech at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials 2019 annual meeting in St. Louis, Don Butler, executive director for Connected Vehicles and Services at Ford Motor Company, stressed that reserving the 5.9 GHz wireless…
Engineering Video: What I Wish I Knew Freshman Year
Kyle Gillis is an engineering student, YouTuber and the co-founder of two active startups. He’s completing his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at West Virginia University and will graduate in December 2019. A year after dropping out as a sophomore…
Video: Secrets of the Parthenon
The Parthenon, the icon of Western civilization, which stands in splendor on Acropolis Hill in Athens, has stood for for 2,500 years, miraculously surviving the ravages of time, nature and mankind. For decades, engineers, architects and scientists have…
