Kansas DOT Begins Testing of Drones for Bridge, Tower Inspections
The new Kansas Unmanned Aerial Systems program started test flights last Friday to find ways to use drones for bridge and tower inspections. “Our Aviation and Bridge inspection teams are doing great work in testing drones to enhance the safety of KDOT workers and improve cost efficiencies,” said Acting Transportation Secretary Richard Carlson. “We believe UAS may reduce the need to place our engineers in potentially dangerous situations and we intend to pursue every opportunity that makes t...
CH2M Working with Nevada Department of Transportation to Develop Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Policy Framework
LAS VEGAS - The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) has selected industry thought leader CH2M to develop a concise vision and a collaborative policy framework for continuing autonomous vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) initiatives in the state. Nevada has become a national leader in testing, licensing and authorizing autonomous vehicles on state roads. The Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility – established in early 2016 as an initiative between the Governor’s Office of Economic De...
Kansas UAS Program Tests Drones for Bridge, Tower Inspections
The new Kansas Unmanned Aerial Systems program started test flights last Friday to find ways to use drones for bridge and tower inspections. “Our Aviation and Bridge inspection teams are doing great work in testing drones to enhance the safety of KDOT workers and improve cost efficiencies,” said Acting Transportation Secretary Richard Carlson. “We believe UAS may reduce the need to place our engineers in potentially dangerous situations and we intend to pursue every opportunity that makes th...
BTS Releases Industry Snapshots
The Wholesale and Retail Trade sector relied on the most transportation services of any sector of the U.S. economy, according to Industry Snapshots: Uses of Transportation, a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Table 1, Figure 1). In 2014, the seven non-transportation sectors of the economy relied on more than $1 trillion in transportation services. The Wholesale and Retail Sector used $292 billion, more than one-fou...
Fugro Awarded Further Ground Investigation on Transport Scotland’s A9 Dualling Programme
Wallingford, UK - Fugro has secured a second contract for ground investigations on Transport Scotland’s landmark project to dual the A9 between Perth and Inverness. Worth in excess of £1.2M, the package of geotechnical investigations will characterise ground conditions along a 14.5 km section between Tay Crossing and Killiecrankie within the southern part of the dualling. Under the 23-week contract, which has just started on site, Fugro will carry out exploratory drilling and sampling in s...
Oklahoma DOT Notes Public-Private Partnership Success with Opening of I-40 Radio Road Interchange in El Reno
Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism Deby Snodgrass joined officials Thursday from the energy industry, the City of El Reno and Oklahoma Department of Transportation to mark the completion of a historic public-private partnership to construct a new I-40 interchange at Radio Rd. in El Reno. In 2012, Chesapeake Energy Corp. of Oklahoma City announced it would pay the state’s portion of construction costs and secure the right-of-way necessary to add new interstate access in the growing area....
ODOT and Disability Rights Oregon Join Forces to Make State's Transportation System More Accessible to People with Disabilities
SALEM, Ore.- In the largest commitment to an accessible transportation system in state history, the Oregon Department of Transportation, Disability Rights Oregon and the Association of Oregon Centers for Independent Living have reached a proposed agreement which will make the state highway system more accessible to those with disabilities. The agreement settles a February 2016 federal lawsuit against ODOT by the Association of Oregon Centers for Independent Living (AOCIL), and eight individuals...
Rhode Island DOT Reopens Hussey Bridge Eight Months Ahead of Schedule
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today held a ceremony with local officials and community representatives to mark the re-opening of the Clarence L. Hussey Memorial Bridge in Wickford. In order to expedite repairs to the bridge, it was closed from April 1 to June 3, 2016, and again on September 6, 2016 for its second of two closure periods. RIDOT opened the bridge to traffic on October 27, 2016. RIDOT reached substantial completion approximately eight months ahead of the p...
Maritime Administration Awards $4.85 Million in Grants for Marine Highway Projects
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced $4.85 million in grants to six Marine Highway projects along the waterways of 17 states and the District of Columbia. The goal of the Maritime Administration’s Marine Highway Program is to expand the use of our Nation’s navigable waterways to relieve landside congestion, reduce air emissions, and generate other public benefits by increasing the efficiency of the surface transportation system. “These grants will help us take advantage of t...
Pennsylvania DOT Starts Work on Mount Joy Train Station Improvements
Mount Joy, PA – PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. Richards hosted a groundbreaking event Wednesday for improvements to the Mount Joy station on Amtrak’s Keystone Corridor, the latest in a series of investments to improve service on the 104-mile line. The $25 million project will replace low-level platforms with covered, elevated ones that will make boarding trains easier, improve access with the addition of elevators and enclosed stair towers, and a pedestrian overpass between the east and west...
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