Seven American cities will be competing for an award of up to $40 million that they would use to reinvent transportation in their communities using data, technology and a big dose of innovation and creativity. The seven cities – Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Denver Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and San Francisco, […]
As the United States faces estimates of $3.4 billion in infrastructure needs through 2020, the nation’s public schools, airports, water treatment plants, highways and bridges and other structures and facilities continue to be shortchanged. State and local infrastructure spending is at its lowest in three decades, and the federal investment in infrastructure has dropped by […]
Five finalists from among more than 70 medium-sized cities competing in the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Smart City Challenge will be named in June, with the winner to be awarded up to $40 million. That money will fund the winning city’s proposal that is geared toward safer, easier and more reliable transportation in the […]
Threat of a government shutdown is just one of several hot-button issues that Congress is facing and hoping to resolve before the end of the year. But, the elephant in the room – once again – is a languishing long-term bill to reauthorize funding for the federal Highway Trust Fund. The bill, which would provide […]
Rural areas of the United States hit the jackpot this week when nearly 40 transportation projects in 34 states were announced as recipients of funding from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced $500 million in TIGER funding has been awarded for 2015, 43 percent of […]
It’s starting to sound like a broken record, but, once again, Congress is facing the deadline for piecing together a solution for continued funding of the federal Highway Trust Fund. The current stop-gap measure passed in July is set to expire on Oct. 29. And, across the country, government entities are piecing together solutions to […]
Texans may be somewhat calmed by the knowledge that transportation infrastructure problems are nationwide. No state is exempt. Citizens won’t, however, be happy to know that transportation-related costs are destined to increase in Texas and in every other state in the near future. The nation’s transportation infrastructure needs have become too critical to ignore any […]