This animation from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development explains what survey crews do, and why their work is vital to the preliminary aspects of highway development.
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Louisiana DOTD: Why Surveying Crews Are Vital to Roadwork
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015U.S. DOT: Using GPS For Transportation Research
Friday, September 18th, 2015
These days GPS makes a transportation planner’s research effort much easier. Until now access to the data created wasn’t so easy. Watch the video to see how FHWA’s Office of Planning, Environment and Realty’s Research Program teamed with U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to access secure travel data on the web.
View this complete post...The 2015 U.S. Transportation Construction Industry Profile
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
AMERICAN ROAD & TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (ARTBA)
This report examines how investments in the United States’ transportation infrastructure stimulate business activity and government revenues throughout the nation…The results spotlight the unique and synergistic nature of transportation capital investments—how they trigger immediate economic activity that creates and sustains jobs and tax revenues, yet yield long-lived capital assets that facilitate economic activity for many decades to come by providing access to jobs, services, materials and markets.
Nevada DOT: Managing Stormwater in the Clear Creek Watershed
Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
The roadway between Carson City and Lake Tahoe was constructed in 1957 in preparation for the 1960 U.S. Olympics in Squaw Valley. Part of the Clear Creek Watershed, erosion has become a serious problem over the years, prompting NDOT to make some significant erosion control and stormwater improvements. James Murphy of NDOT’s Stormwater Management Program explains the benefits of the much needed project.
View this complete post...Nevada DOT: Paving I-580 Time Lapse
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
This is a time lapse video on the paving of the inside two lanes on Southbound I-580 on Monday, August 17th.
View this complete post...Duluth, MN: Riding North on Interstate 35
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
The future rarely moves in predictable, incremental ways. Often seemingly small changes in technology, demographics, regulations, economics, or a myriad of other factors have dramatic and unintended impacts on how any organization (public or private) plans and operates. These nonlinear impacts are very difficult to predict using traditional forecasting methods and techniques since they, by definition, do not follow any historical patterns.
Bumpy Roads Ahead: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
TRIP
In this report, TRIP examines the condition of the nation’s major urban roads, including pavement condition data for America’s most populous urban areas, recent trends in travel, the latest developments in repairing roads and building them to last longer, and the funding levels needed to adequately address America’s deteriorated roadways.
Guest on The Infra Blog: Terry O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA)
Thursday, July 30th, 2015
Terry O’Sullivan became the tenth General President of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) on January 1, 2000, and is dedicated to growing his union’s membership and market share.
“I think the American public is willing, ready, and able to have that conversation. It’s been too many in Washington DC that have been licking their fingers and seeing which way the winds are blowing, that have been afraid to have that conversation.”
View this complete post...Senator John Thune (R-SD): Why Americans Need a Long-Term Transportation Solution
Thursday, July 30th, 2015
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, urges his colleagues to pass a long-term transportation bill to fund our nation’s highways, roads, and bridges and provide certainty to Americans whose jobs rely on a reauthorization.
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