About 90 people die each day from motor vehicle crashes in the United States, resulting in the highest death rate among 19 high-income comparison countries. Our nation has made progress in road safety, reducing crash deaths by 31 percent from 2000 to 2013.…
Data Science Projects Promise to Transform Transportation
ANN ARBOR—On-demand, driverless public buses. Data-driven accident avoidance systems. "Smart" traffic systems that dramatically reduce emissions and…
Jeri Brittin Named Director of Research at HDR
Dr. Jeri Brittin, a public health research scientist, has been named director of research in HDR's Omaha office. Her research portfolio includes a focus…
Arup Report Reveals Why Walking is Good for Business
Arup launches ‘Cities Alive: Towards a walking world’- a new report that analyses research and trends in city design to show how walking friendly cities can help create healthier and wealthier cities. Improved walkability has been proven to increase local…
CoreLogic Storm Surge Analysis Identifies More Than 6.8 Million US Homes at Risk of Hurricane Storm Surge Damage in 2016
IRVINE, Calif., June 1, 2016 – CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released its 2016 Storm Surge Report which concludes that more than 6.8 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf…
New Report Points to Benefits of Embedding Digital Technologies in Infrastructure
WASHINGTON—The United States must transform existing “brick-and-mortar” physical infrastructure into digital infrastructure to seize the next wave of economic opportunities that will create jobs and improve people’s quality of life, according to a…
BTS Releases the Rail Network Spatial Dataset
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released the rail network and rail nodes portion of the 2016 National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). These datasets are available for download as a zipped shapefile. Due to high public demand, BTS is…
FHWA Concludes MAP-21 Truck Size and Weight Limits Study
The Federal Highway Administration's truck size and weight limits study was delivered to Congress April 14, concluding more than three years of work on a report that was required by the 2012 MAP-21 surface transportation bill. The issue of truck size and weight…
InfoSWMM Sustain Generation V2.0 Delivers Significant Advancements for Comprehensive Urban Stormwater Treatment and Analysis
Broomfield, Colo., April 12, 2016 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced worldwide availability of the V2.0 Generation of its industry-leading InfoSWMM Sustain…
