COWI wins engineering contract to develop new 8-lane immersed tunnel for the George Massey Crossing Project
The new tunnel will boost trade and travel across the Metro Vancouver Region Vancouver, Canada: COWI, a leading international engineering consulting group has been awarded a $15 million Province of British Columbia contract as the Owner's Engineer of an eight-lane immersed tunnel across British Columbia’s (BC) Fraser River, to provide more capacity for drivers and transit users, while providing walking and cycling options through the crossing for the first time. The new tunnel will have th...
Verra Mobility Receives Contract Renewal from New York City
Three-year renewal of the photo enforcement contract to increase the number of red-light cameras, bus lane cameras and speed cameras, and include additional maintenance services MESA, Ariz.- Verra Mobility (NASDAQ: VRRM), a leading provider of smart mobility technology solutions, announced today that the New York City Department of Transportation exercised its second three-year renewal option under its photo enforcement contract with Verra Mobility. The contract, which was registered in 2014,...
Video: MDOT Transportation Diversity Recruitment Program
MDOT has been working with students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and colleges throughout Michigan to offer valuable on-the-job training and job shadowing to undergraduate students pursuing degrees in engineering or other transportation-related careers.
President Biden, U.S. Department of Transportation Releases Toolkit to Help Rural Communities Build Out Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Provide $7.5 Billion for EV Charging Network Across America WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today released a new, free resource to help rural communities across the country take full advantage of federal funding for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The guide, titled Charging Forward: A Toolkit for Planning and Funding Rural Electric Mobility Infrastructure, can help connect community members, towns, businesses, planning agencies, and...
Nearly 224,000 U.S. Bridges Need Repair; Placed End-to-End They Would Stretch From L.A. to Maine and Back Again, Latest Analysis of Federal Data Finds
43,600 Are “Structurally Deficient” and in Poor Condition. Motorists cross these structures 167.5 million times a day. 48 percent of 619,588 Bridges are in Fair Condition. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on Route 13, northbound in Northampton, Va., U.S. 60/62 bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Illinois and Missouri, Make List. National and State Data Available: www.artbabridgereport.org WASHINGTON — Nearly 224,000 U.S. bridges need major repair work or should be replace...
BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics today released its winter 2022 update to the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, networks, and associated infrastructure. The updated layers in this release include: National Transit Map data; Transit Stops; Transit Routes; Transit Agencies; North American Rail Lines; North American Rail Nodes; N...
USDOT Unveils New National Roadway Safety Strategy
The U.S. Department of Transportation introduced a new comprehensive National Roadway Safety Strategy or NRSS during a press event at the agency’s Washington D.C. headquarters on January 27. USDOT Secretary Buttigieg (seen above) said during that event that the NRSS provides “concrete steps” for the agency to address an “alarming rise” in roadway fatalities via “systemic changes” to prevent these “tragic and avoidable deaths and serious injuries.” [Above image via the USDOT] He added th...
one.network and North Carolina DOT Launch First Statewide Work Zone Data Exchange Initiative in U.S.
The effort will be the largest and most comprehensive project of its kind, delivering statewide work zone data as part of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's new Work Zone Data Exchange Program. WILMINGTON, Delaware – one.network, a leading transportation technology provider of real-time work zone, road incident and event information data, announced a partnership agreement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) today to launch the first statewide deployment o...
GPA tops 5.5M TEUs, 650K units in 2021
The Georgia Ports Authority achieved a record level of container trade in Calendar Year 2021, handling more than 5.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units of cargo. By June, the GPA will grow the Port of Savannah’s annual container capacity by 1.6 million TEUs, an increase of 25 percent. Credit - GPA SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 25, 2022 – The Port of Savannah moved a record 5.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in Calendar Year 2021, growing volumes by a million TEUs, or 20...
Improving Public Engagement in Transportation Through Data-Informed Analysis
The latest installation in HDR’s Experts Talk series features strategic communications professionals Chelsea Collinge and Sabrina Colón explaining how data-informed engagement can help create more equitable infrastructure. Data-informed engagement, which combines the expertise of communications professionals and geospatial experts, uses readily available, public data to inform and enhance community engagement. The result is an approach that improves understanding of a community and leads to m...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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