SOLV3D Garners New Esri Specialty and Becomes a Marketplace Provider
CALGARY, AB – May 28, 2020 – SOLV3D, a leading provider of 3D processing, geospatial data visualization and collaboration solutions, is excited to announce that it has been recognized by Esri as a Release Ready Specialty partner and has also been approved as an ArcGIS Marketplace provider. Partners in the Release Ready Specialty offer industry expertise along with solution using the latest ArcGIS products. As early adopters of Esri software releases, partners with this designation are leader...
Southern California’s Marengo Charging Plaza Officially Opens to The Public
Stantec assists Pasadena Water and Power with nation’s largest electric vehicle charging station Pasadena, CA - To keep up with the increase in demand for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, the City of Pasadena—in partnership with Tesla—installed 44 fast chargers made available to the public at the Marengo Charging Plaza, the largest public fast charging station in the nation. Global design and engineering firm Stantec and Greenlots, a developer of electric vehicle charging and...
DART Awards Uber Contract for Rideshare Services
On Tuesday, May 26, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board awarded a three-year contract to Uber Technologies, Inc., (Uber) for rideshare services to supplement the agency’s successful GoLink program, providing additional capacity across the agency’s 13 GoLink service zones. In January 2017, DART was awarded a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Mobility on Demand Sandbox grant to pilot test an on-demand microtransit service integrated into DART’s GoPass mobile app. Beginning in March...
Clinton County Contracts with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER Imagery Hosting Service
The subscription software will house and support the Southwest Ohio county’s orthoimagery in the cloud, while reducing maintenance costs. WILMINGTON, Ohio — Clinton County, Ohio, has signed an annual contract with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER, a subscription software service that hosts, maintains and facilitates access to geospatial imagery in the cloud. The county owns large volumes of high-quality orthoimagery for use by the public and local, state and federal agencies. “Most counties map...
MALA MIRA HDR - 3D GPR AT ITS BEST
MALA GPR Australia is proud to present MALÅ MIRA HDR, the new GPR array system. It’s the professional choice for large scale 3D GPR mapping and will help customers around the world to create detailed 3D maps of the subsurface with the highest resolution on the market. MALA GPR Australia launches all new MALÅ MIRA HDR, a large area 3D GPR mapping solution with the highest data quality and resolution on the market, highway speed survey capability, improved mechanical design and new user-friendl...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 11 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
(WASHINGTON) - Eleven children of highway workers who were killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive post-high school financial assistance for the 2020-21 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. Now in its 21st year, the program was established with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contracto...
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Receives $120M Build America Loan
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau is providing up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act or TIFIA loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to help finance the Gilcrease Expressway West project. [Above photo by the Ohio Turnpike Authority.] That project consists of a five-mile four-lane divided tollway that includes 22 bridges – two of which span the Arkansas River – four major interchanges, and a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail....
ARTBA Launches New “Fundamentals of U.S. Transportation Construction Safety” Course
WASHINGTON — A national association has developed the transportation construction industry’s most comprehensive safety training course to help dramatically reduce the 700 motorist fatalities and nearly 50,000 injuries that occur annually in and around the nation’s infrastructure improvement project sites. The online “Fundamentals of U.S. Transportation Construction Safety” features modules on falls, electricity, preventing struck-by and caught-in incidents, safety programs, workplace communi...
FINLEY Bridge Engineer, Ton Tu, Obtains P.E. License
FINLEY Engineering Group (FINLEY), a Tallahassee-based bridge design and construction engineering firm, congratulates Ton Tu, P.E., on passing the Professional Engineering examination and officially receiving his Professional Engineering license. During his 3 years with FINLEY, Ton’s most notable projects have included Honolulu Authority For Rapid Transportation HART Extension 3 where he was responsible for the 3D innovative shop drawing of platform girders. Ton has done extensive design work...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces up to a $120.1 Million Loan for the Gilcrease Expressway West Project in Tulsa, OK
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) to help finance the Gilcrease Expressway West Project in Oklahoma. “This $120.1 million federal investment in the Gilcrease Expressway reflects the President’s continued emphasis on infrastructure...