U.S. Department of Transportation Awards $49.6 Million in Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Grants
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today awarded Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) grants valued at $49.6 million to 10 projects using advanced intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies that will improve mobility and safety and support vehicle connectivity. “This $49.6 million in grant funding will support innovative solutions to improve connectivity and help prepare America’s...
APWA’s January PWX@Home Focused on Engineering, Technology, and Asset Management
Kansas City, MO – With brand new live events and updated products, the American Public Works Association’s (APWA) PWX@Home is highlighting Engineering, Technology, and Asset Management throughout the month of January. Each month through July 2021, APWA is offering virtual education sessions related to a specialty within public works, and providing dynamic professional credentialing and networking opportunities to all public works professionals. “Since September, we have seen a clear, and inc...
Comati, Greeniaus Enhance Gannett Fleming’s Transit and Rail Service Offerings
Public transportation is being disrupted by forces of technology, societal changes, the pandemic, and much more. These forces of change will shape the next era of transit and rail mobility. Gannett Fleming understands that mobility solutions implemented today must also deliver safe, accessible, and reliable functionality in the transportation ecosystem of the future. To serve clients now with solutions that meet the needs of the future, Gannett Fleming is pleased to announce the following new hi...
Dewberry’s Jerry Mrykalo Receives WTS-DC Chapter’s Honorable Ray Lahood Award
Mrykalo leads the firm’s mid-Atlantic traffic engineering group. Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has announced that Senior Associate and Department Manager Jerry Mrykalo, PE, PTOE, has been recognized as the recipient of the Honorable Ray LaHood award by the Women’s Transportation Seminar Washington, D.C., Chapter (WTS-DC). Mrykalo was recognized during the virtual WTS-DC holiday party on December 8. The award is presented annually to a man who is a leader in tra...
Simpson Strong-Tie Releases 2020 Year in Review List Highlighting Best New Products, Innovations, and Building Solutions
Pleasanton, Calif. — Simpson Strong-Tie, the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, today released its annual Year in Review List, highlighting major new product launches, structural engineering solutions, and other industry innovations introduced over the past twelve months. New building solutions introduced by Simpson Strong-Tie in 2020 included product innovations for applications in construction materials ranging from light-frame and mass timber to concrete and...
Arizona Construction Industry Recognizes Three Young Leaders at Rosendin
Electrical contracting company employees graduate from ABA Leadership programs Tempe, AZ – Arizona’s construction industry met recently to recognize emerging leaders and the companies that support and encourage professional growth. At the top of that list is Rosendin, the nation’s largest employee-owned electrical contracting company. In 2020, Rosendin expanded training at its Tempe office and sponsored three emerging leaders to participate in the Arizona Builders Alliance’s (ABA) 2020...
Federal Railroad Administration Announces Landmark Achievement with Full Implementation of Positive Train Control
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced today that positive train control (PTC) technology is in operation on all 57,536 required freight and passenger railroad route miles, prior to the statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, set by Congress. In addition, as required, FRA has certified that each host railroad’s PTC system complies with the technical requirements for PTC systems. Furthermore, railroads have reported that interoperab...
State DOTs Net $10B In Aid From COVID-19 Relief Legislation
State departments of transportation are getting $10 billion in long-awaited emergency aid from a $900 billion COVID-19 relief measure passed by Congress late on December 21 as part of a final year-end legislative package. The House of Representatives passed the legislative package that included the COVID-19 rescue bill by a vote of 359 to 53, with the Senate passing it by a vote of 92 to 6. President Trump signed the measure on December 27, though he requested in a statemen...
Cintec helps repair 500 year old Shanghai Huanqing Bridge , China
This structure belongs to the District -level Cultural Relics, and is a three cross beam bridge spanning a river which suffered a partial and then total collapse in 2009. When Cintec visited the site in 2018 all that was visible of the remains of the bridge were random sections of stone beams partially or totally submerged in the river. The Heritage Research and Conservation Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University had asked Cintec to advise if the bridge could be reinstated ut...
South Carolina Department of Transportation selects Hexagon for safety management system
(Norcross, Ga.) — South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) has selected Hexagon’s Geospatial division to implement a transportation safety management system that will support the state’s roadway safety programs and federal reporting requirements. The integrated system will allow SCDOT to leverage existing crash data from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety’s databases for quicker and more accurate analysis. It will provide a data-driven environment to help transportation...
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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