Study: 70 Billion Hours Spent Driving
DENVER (March 5, 2019) – If you think you've been spending more time in your car lately, you're right: Each week, Americans spend 20 more minutes driving than they did in 2014. That's the takeaway from new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, which found that Americans collectively spend 70 billion hours behind the wheel each year – an eight percent bump over 2014. The average driver travels more than 220 miles each week, or 11,498 miles each year. That's the equivalent of two r...
Video: SR 400 Express Lanes Visualization
The Georgia Department of Transportation has released an illustrated video showing the Ga. 400 toll lane design, which includes three rebuilt bridges and a high flyover atop the Northridge Road overpass in Sandy Springs.
Study Finds ‘Growth’ Can Cause Transportation Troubles for Diverse Groups
A 30-page report crafted from a year-long population survey of Bend, Ore., found that its residents shared a similar view of transportation issues resulting from city growth despite different backgrounds, income levels, and ages. Those findings – released in mid-February – also reflect trends occurring at the national level. [Above photo of Bend, Ore., via Wikimedia Commons.] While Hubbell Communications – the Portland, Ore.-based public relations firm that crafted the study...
Heavy Duty Superprop® Shores From Acrow Bridge Support Railway Overpass During Major Highway Construction in Texas
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, noted today that it provided a temporary shoring system to support a railroad plate girder bridge in Plano, Texas, during a project to add four lanes to U.S. Route 75. Rapidly increasing population growth in the area has made the major artery one of the most congested in the region, and the widening project called for adding two new lanes in each direction to the outside of the existing ro...
New Jersey DOT Selects FRP Composite Piles To Replace Aging Wooden Structure At Seaside Resort
DAYTON, Ohio - Cape May, New Jersey is a seaside resort at the southern tip of the state’s Cape May Peninsula. Route 147, a 4.2-mile state highway, runs across bridges that use timber fenders. When the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJ DOT) needed to replace these aging structures, they wrestled with selecting a product that could meet higher energy absorption requirements and protect concrete bridge piers. The New Jersey DOT chose FiberPILE, a system of large diameter fiber reinforce...
Woolpert, ODNR Win Award for ‘Indiana Jones’ Bridge in Hocking Hills State Park
MASON, Ohio — Woolpert and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) were honored Thursday night in Mason with the 2018 Outstanding Special Purpose Bridge Award from the Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD) for the Hemlock Pedestrian Bridge. The suspension bridge, located in Hocking Hills State Park about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, was modeled after a bridge featured in the movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Unlike the bridge in the movie, which was hund...
Temporary Acrow Bridge Eases Construction Inconvenience During Delta Airlines Terminal Renovation at New York’s LaGuardia Airport
Parsippany, New Jersey – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, has announced one of its modular steel bridges was provided to Delta Airlines and recently installed to allow uninterrupted vehicular passage during renovations to terminals C and D at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The temporary structure was critical to the success of the project, which called for demolishing and reconfiguring all approach roadways. The project involved several particular ch...
Video: How to Safely Traverse Through Roundabouts
Using drones, Stewart’s transportation practice group recorded and produced an informational video for an educational station at NCDOT public meetings, describing and showing how motorists, cyclists and pedestrians should move through roundabouts. Stewart previously produced the first drone educational video of its kind in the state during the design selection process for the Burke County I-40 interchange.
Pennsylvania Revives Long-Idled Rural Highway Project
A four-lane highway project that aims to connect the Seven Mountains region of Pennsylvania to the greater State College area through Centre County is being restarted after being shelved for more than 15 years – largely with state funds. The new roadway would also link to the Potter Mills Gap project, which is in its final stages, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. “This connection has been a significant local priority for some time and was studied in detail but was u...
FRA Rescinds Funding for California High Speed Rail Project
In a Feb. 19 letter , the Federal Railroad Administration informed the California High Speed Rail Authority that it intends to cancel $929 million in federal grants yet to be paid for building a high-speed rail link between Los Angeles region and the San Francisco bay area. [Above photo by Jack Snell.] Additionally, the U.S. Department of Transportation said in a statement that it is “actively exploring every legal option” to get California to repay $2.5 billion in federal f...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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