Transportation Troubleshooting: Why Congestion Pricing Works; What Cities Are Learning from It
Many people think of traffic congestion much like the weather: something that can be predicted but not controlled. Yet, the first full year of congestion pricing in lower Manhattan demonstrated that gridlock isn't a force of nature but a manageable challenge when the right tools and policies are applied. Mobility Matters Congestion is the predictable result of many factors, ranging from road design and carpool culture to the availability, efficiency, price and safety of mass transit. City and re...
Engineering The Future: Engineering What’s Next: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Adoption
Anticipating the future and its opportunities is becoming more critical than ever, as opposed to reacting to past events. One of my favorite quotes attributed to Wayne Gretzky is “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” The speed of change continues, and it’s dizzying. Full Systems Approach I had the privilege to co-organize a daylong workshop at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Engineering, on freight operations and the challenges and opportunitie...
From The Editor: Engineering Can Be Exciting!
Sometimes it’s difficult to define the things that interest you—or, more specifically, what excites you. Early Major Project I’ve been traveling on U.S. 31 between U.S. 30 and Indianapolis for years. A long while back, I designed part of the first bypass of Kokomo, Ind., when I was working with the Indiana Department of Highways. At that time, it was one of the largest projects I had worked on; it was exciting. The corridor selected was fairly open, so the choice of alignment was only limited by...
Grand Forks Hybrid Water Treatment Plant Positively Impacts Community
The 250,000-square-foot Grand Forks Regional Water Treatment Plant features an optimized control room and panoramic view of the major water-treatment areas. The unique design includes sustainable innovation, amenities to foster employee wellness within a 24/7/365 environment, resource stewardship and brighter standards in industrial park design. After six years of planning and construction, Grand Forks, N.D., began operation of the Grand Forks Regional Water Treatment Plant (GFRWTP) in mid-2020....
A Brief History of the Wide Flange Beam
A photo from 1911 at the Differdange Mill in Luxembourg, celebrating the accomplishment of producing the first rolled beam in the world with a depth of 1 meter. On July 1, 2025, a massive crane erected the world’s first W14x1000 steel column on the construction site of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. As the heaviest rolled shape on earth, the column serves as a physical milestone in the evolution of the structural steel industry. Since the turn of the 19th century, steel beams have evolved f...
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AI in Engineering: It’s Already Here
At Kimley-Horn, Nick Otto’s team is using AI to improve early phase data-intensive activities such as mapping the multi-partner inputs involved in maximizing solar exposure on an undulating slope. Eliminating hours of “picking and clicking” allows Kimley-Horn to concentrate human intelligence on consequential decision making that improves infrastructure ranging from runways, railways and roadways to sanitation, streetscapes and skyscrapers. (Kimley-Horn) Big or small, near or far, engineering pr...
Climbing the Municipal Asset-Management Ladder: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
The Sugar Land GIS model (above) flagged this pipe segment as a high-priority location with a predicted failure probability of 0.98. The model proved correct, as a break occurred exactly where forecasted in September 2025, shown here during field response. The Sugar Land GIS model (inset) flagged this pipe segment as a high-priority location with a predicted failure probability of 0.98. The model proved correct, as a break occurred exactly where forecasted in September 2025, shown here during fi...
A New Day for the Sanibel Causeway
(Superior Construction) (Kisinger Campo & Associates) Hurricane Ian’s damage was catastrophic, but engineers and contractors worked together to rebuild and reconstruct the Sanibel Causeway in Lee County, Fla. On Sept. 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian cut off the Sanibel Causeway, the only vehicular transportation link between Florida’s Gulf Coast and Sanibel and Captiva barrier islands, home to 6,500 residents. Within 24 hours, Superior Construction and The de Moya Group formed a joint-venture team that...
Future Forward Powered by ACEC: It’s Time for Firms to Get Smart on Data
When we talk about “smart engineering,” it’s easy to focus on all the recent advances in technology. At its core, however, smart engineering is about data. While new technologies allow us to analyze and collect more data than ever before, it’s imperative that we use such data to make decisions about infrastructure that maximize the value to society. Using data for infrastructure decision making has been my soapbox for some time (see iimag.link/UtKYw). With limited resources, data allow us to mak...
Change Leader: GIS and Digital Twins Change How a Massive Airport Manages Its Assets
Adan Banda and Brandon Mann This interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can listen to the full interview by visiting iimag.link/DBTFe. Adan Banda is senior geospatial data manager at DFW Airport; Brandon Mann is geospatial analyst at DFW Airport. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) operates as its own municipality—complete with its own ZIP Code; fire, police and SWAT teams; utilities and road networks; even cemeteries—making it...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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June Issue 2026
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