BART Trip Planner Provides Seamless Commute in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley
Hannover / Oakland, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has successfully teamed up with HaCon to provide its riders with the brand-new BART Trip Planner: Available both as a web app (https://planner.bart.gov) and native apps for iOS and Android, the new application guarantees a seamless, multimodal door-to-door travel experience including real-time information – a major upgrade to the legacy system that was solely based on the scheduled timetable. Aside from BART's own services, HaCon's powerful so...
Jefferson County Hires Woolpert to Implement Cityworks, Upgrade Asset Management Systems
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Jan. 15, 2019) — Woolpert was contracted by Jefferson County, Ala., to implement the Cityworks Enterprise Asset Management System (AMS) for its Department of Roads and Transportation, and to upgrade the AMS for the county’s Department of Environmental Services. The two-part, multiyear project will improve, align and standardize the work order services and asset management groups of the nine divisions within these departments. John Cestnick, Woolpert project manager, said...
The SEFA Group Announces Promotion of Bill Fedorka to VP
LEXINGTON, S.C., Jan. 15, 2019 - Bill Fedorka, P.E., has been promoted to Vice President, Engineering & Projects at The SEFA Group, which processes and markets environmentally sustainable products derived from coal combustion byproducts. Bill has led engineering and advancements of SEFA's proprietary STAR® Technology facilities over more than a decade. "Bill has been instrumental in our company's growth and in our leadership in new technologies," said Jim Clayton, Chief Operating Officer....
Structural Engineering Expert Mehrafarid Ghoreishi, PhD, PE, Joins Cardno's Clearwater Office
Clearwater, FL - Cardno is pleased to announce that Mehrafarid Ghoreishi, PhD, PE, has joined the firm as a Senior Structures Engineer in the company’s Clearwater, FL, USA office. Mehrafarid has more than 20 years of robust experience in structural and bridge engineering and transportation planning. His expertise includes steel/concrete structural design, bridge inspections, dynamic and nonlinear static analysis, seismic and wind engineering, computer-aided structural design, and finite element...
Oregon Department of Transportation Expands Use of DT Research High Accuracy GNSS Rugged Tablets Statewide
Washington D.C., 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting – DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, today announced the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has expanded its use of DT Research GNSS rugged tablets to all 15 of its construction management offices across the state and also use the tablets for biology, geology, roadway and wetland projects. DT Research worked closely with ODOT to design purpose-buil...
We Need to Modernize our Infrastructure Now
U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue on why we need to modernize our infrastructure now: Modernizing America’s infrastructure could fundamentally improve our economy, our competitiveness, and our quality of life—not to mention create millions of good-paying jobs. The Chamber has offered a four-point infrastructure plan: -We want to raise the federal fuel user fee by 25 cents. -We should encourage more private investment. -We need to streamline the permitting process. -And we w...
Aviation Architecture Expert, Andres Chacon, Joins HNTB in Tampa as Deputy Project Manager
TAMPA, Fla. – Andres Chacon, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, SCA, joined HNTB Corporation as deputy project manager – aviation. He is based in the firm’s Tampa office and will work throughout the Southeast. Chacon is responsible for coordination of all aviation project efforts in the region to ensure efficient and effective delivery for airport clients working hard to improve facilities and passenger experience. He currently serves as deputy project manager for the $300 million Tampa International Airp...
Trelleborg’s Pipe Seals Proven to Offer Eight Times the Service Life of Competitor Systems
A leading independent ‘stress relaxation’ test has determined that the average performance lifetime of some of Trelleborg’s key pipe sealing compounds is in excess of 800 years. Elastocon AB, a global leader in testing stress relaxation in elastomers, found that Trelleborg’s elastomeric compounds remain within the acceptable 50% relaxation threshold significantly longer than rival solutions – more than seven centuries longer, in most cases. The results were exceptional: Trelleborg’s compounds...
House, Senate Set Committee Leadership for 116th Congress
Several new faces are set to take over key Congressional committees in 2019 that affect the transportation industry, especially in the House Representatives, which reverted back to Democratic Party control following the midterm elections on Nov. 6 last year. [Above photo via Pixby] The Democrats officially selected Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., as chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee for the 116th Congress on Jan. 4. A longtime member of the T&I committee, who serv...
Federal Shutdown Impacting Project Planning for State DOTs
As the partial shutdown of the federal government over border wall funding stretches past 20 days, some state departments of transportation are beginning to curtail planning for new projects while several mass transit systems are scrambling as many rely on federal grants for both operating revenues and capital funding. In his first media briefing as the new executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Jim Tymon (pictured above) explained that s...
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