Unique Combination of Sensors Used to Gather High Resolution Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar Data Along 12,000 Square Miles of Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast Areas Not Surveyed Since Civil War Era HOLLYWOOD, Fla.– Quantum Spatial, Inc., an…

Use the Cloud to ‘Make It Rain’
By Mark Scacco, P.E. Hybrid cloud solutions provide immediate access to project data regardless of internet connectivity Unless you’ve been hiding under…

Video: Greg Bentley Interview Part 1: Favorite Projects and BIM Advancements
Informed Infrastructure interviewed Greg Bentley, the CEO of Bentley Systems, at the Year In Infrastructure Event held Nov. 1-3, 2017, at the Hilton London…

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…

PennSMART Brings IoT Lighting Systems and Streetscapes to Smart Cities, Municipalities and Campuses
NORTH BRANFORD, CONN., March 14, 2016—When your light pole can scare away an intruder, capture video of a perpetrator, measure snowfall to trigger the arrival of snowplows, and support a range of other desirable functions, you can assume it came from PennSMART.…

Iowa DOT Joins Waze Connected Citizens Program
AMES, Iowa, Aug. 17, 2015—With historic amounts of road construction happening on Iowa’s highways this summer, knowing where traffic is moving and where it is not can be critical to travelers. To increase the amount of real-time data available, the Iowa…

BTS’ National Transportation Statistics Updated
Friday, April 24, 2015—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today updated National Transportation Statistics (NTS)– a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data. NTS, updated quarterly,…

New Data Show U.S. Drivers Topped 3 Trillion Miles Last Year
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2015—New estimates released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that Americans drove nearly 3.02 trillion miles in 2014, the highest point since 2007 and the second-highest since…

Auto Industry Leaders Talk About Next-Generation Sensors for Cars
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Feb. 19, 2015—Prices at the pump may be dropping, but cars don’t live by cheap gas alone. It’s becoming abundantly clear that today’s vehicles – and especially tomorrow’s -- will run on data. With anywhere from 60-100 different…