RIDOT Seeking Proposals For Next-Generation Transportation Systems, Including Autonomous Vehicles
The transportation technology of tomorrow could be coming to Rhode Island, as the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) from companies with expertise in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and other technologies. The intent of the RFI is to start a process that puts the Ocean State in a position to be a leader in developing the transportation system of the future. "Rhode Island has always embraced emerging technology. The industrial...
Innovative Partnership Delivering South Mountain Freeway Sooner
PHOENIX – Less than six months after major construction began on the state’s largest single highway project ever, progress on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway has been swift. In Ahwatukee Foothills, future interchanges are taking shape at 17th Avenue and 40th Street, with columns and abutments in place and crews scheduled to begin placing bridge girders next month. In Laveen, 72 large concrete piers form the start of two half-mile-long bridges that will carry traffic over the Salt River. I...
NASA's TASAR Trial Takes Flight on Alaska Airlines With Installation of UTC Aerospace Systems' Aircraft Data Management Solution
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today announced that Alaska Airlines has completed installation of the company's advanced Aircraft Data Management (ADM) solution on three of its 737NG aircraft. The ADM system is designed to help aircraft save time and fuel through its family of software and hardware products, including the Tablet Interface Module (TIM®) and Aircraft Interface Device (AID), both of which have been installed on the Alaska p...
UAS Improves Project Efficiency in Complex Runway Redesign
With the recent addition of new pilots across multiple disciplines at Woolpert, we are constantly leveraging unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology for new applications. In particular, we are focusing on how we can integrate the imagery and data produced from UAS into our design work. Recently, our teams used the technology for the construction monitoring of a complex runway extension, where two different UAS were used to monitor the progress and status of the current development. A...
Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program to Expire in 2 years
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — One of Baxter Springs' most iconic stops on its most iconic highway owes a lot to a federal program that could soon reach the end of its road. Likewise for historic sites in Carthage and elsewhere along Route 66, which linked the Midwest to the West Coast, The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/2ruGWz5 ) reported. The Independent Oil and Gas Station in Baxter Springs and Boots Motel in Carthage, Missouri, are just two of more than 150 projects that have received fundin...
T.Y. Lin International Wins 2017 IBC Arthur G. Hayden Medal for Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing
SAN FRANCISCO - T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized, full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing (POC) in Santa Monica, California, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 International Bridge Conference (IBC) Arthur G. Hayden Medal. The Arthur G. Hayden Medal acknowledges a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating innovation in special use bridges, such as pedestrian, people-mover, or non-tr...
Only Thing Moving on Highway 1 is Dirt
LOS ANGELES — Geologists and engineers crowded a conference room in San Luis Obispo last week to address the latest assault upon California’s most revered roadway. Yet another stretch of Highway 1, that improbable serpentine artery hemming the continent’s western edge, had abruptly disappeared. No one in the room was shocked. The scientists and builders knew what they were up against. A week earlier, sensors in the mountains had picked up increased ground movement at a site...
Amtrak’s Summer Repairs at NY Penn Station to Disrupt Rail Service Across Northeast
The Amtrak passenger rail system's preliminary plan for making vital repairs at New York City's busy Penn Station will disrupt train service across a region that extends to Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pa., as well as affecting commuters in New York and New Jersey. Amtrak said its service changes will take effect July 10 and extend to Sept. 1, and reports say more changes will come to regional rail service as the other users of Penn Station tracks – Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey T...
Work Zone Crisis: 44 Percent of Contractors Report Vehicle Crashes at Construction Sites
In a new report that starkly highlights the risk to workers as well as motorists in highway work zones, 44 percent of roadway contractors said vehicles had crashed into their construction sites in the past year, for a 13 percent jump from 2016 and including spikes in construction worker deaths and injuries. The Associated General Contractors of America, which surveyed more than 700 contractors nationwide during March and April, said it has launched a new public advertising and information cam...
Metro Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine Surfaces at New L.A. Station
The $1.55 Billion Metro Regional Connector Transit Project, a 1.9-mile long subterranean twin rail tunnel linking L.A.’s Gold, Blue and Expo lines, last week punched through the site of the future 2nd/Hope Station in Bunker Hill. The tunnels, scheduled to wrap up by early 2018, will connect three new stations along the Connector’s expanded path, from Little Tokyo to the Financial District in downtown L.A., including the 1st /Central Station in Little Tokyo and the 2nd /Broadway Station in the Ci...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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