When making a list of frightening possibilities, one could easily overlook aging bridges, dams, pipelines and roads that are no longer safe. People rarely worry about a bridge collapsing or a dam breaking, but events such as these are becoming all too common. In fact, October’s heavy rains and flooding in South Carolina caused the […]
Just a few years ago, the notion of autonomous vehicles would have caused people to chuckle. Not so anymore! Driverless cars are the future. Google and Lexus have already released prototypes and the competition between manufacturers is keen. In fact, seven companies have announced plans for autonomous vehicles. The market is moving so rapidly that […]
Cities have huge issues related to transportation – massive traffic congestion, necessary road expansions, too few sidewalks for pedestrians, inadequate bike lanes, safety issues and poor air quality caused by idling vehicles. Solutions are hard to come by and big changes are emerging in highway planning. Transportation planners are rethinking how roads should be designed […]
It’s no secret that toll roads are unpopular with many Texans. Citizens and organized groups have been very vocal about their feelings. Texas legislators obviously heard them and responded. As a result, the state appropriated money for transportation projects but limited new funding to road projects without toll lanes. That does not mean, however, that […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is taking a new approach on how it will deliver projects throughout the state for roads and bridges, rail, aviation, ports and other means of transportation. The state’s transportation agency is seeking unsolicited proposals from the private sector for innovative ways to address transportation needs on PennDOT-owned projects and […]
Federal agencies have been put on notice by the White House. Completion of much-needed infrastructure projects nationwide has fallen victim to snail-like movement through the federal permitting processes over the years. As a result, the Administration has announced new initiatives expected to accelerate infrastructure projects by improving the efficiency of those processes. The announcement of […]
The recent announcement that the federal Highway Trust fund’s projected financial demise has been extended by six months is turning out to be a double-edged sword. Public officials in states that depend on federal appropriations to help finance high-dollar transportation infrastructure projects had mixed emotions when it was announced that the funding is now expected […]