John Hennessy III,
P.E.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Railroads are experiencing a competitive resurgence as both an energy-efficient freight transportation option and a viable city-to-city passenger service. In 2012, Amtrak recorded its highest year of ridership with 31.2 million passengers, almost doubling ridership since 2000, with growth anticipated to continue.
The Interstate 95 North bridge over Overbrook Road (at mile marker 77) was replaced March 15-18, 2013, as part of a major project to restore 11 bridges along the I-95 corridor in Richmond, Va. This time-lapse video from shows crews replacing the nine bridge sections. For more information about the I-95 Richmond Bridge Restorations project, […]
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Vol. 24, No. 4
It seems like not a week goes by without fresh warnings about the nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” and renewed appeals to rebuild our aging highways and bridges. President Obama reinvigorated the campaign with his State-of-the-Union proposal for a $50 billion program of infrastructure investments, $40 billion of which would be devoted to a “fix-it-first” program targeted at urgent improvements such as “structurally deficient” bridges.
Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But […]
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Transportation Issues Daily Congress is about to establish a 2014 budget blueprint, with the House and Senate miles apart on the numbers. The House is likely to pass its resolution this week. The Senate may take a little longer, depending on how the 2013 continuing resolution debate and votes go this week. House Republicans and […]
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Euromoney Seminars proudly presents the North American Midstream Infrastructure Finance Forum, the only event focused on the financing of midstream energy assets.
Strong growth in North America’s upstream business has dramatically altered the energy supply mix and created new opportunities for growth. To access new sources of conventional and unconventional supply, the midstream sector is hard at work to build out the infrastructure needed to transport, process, and store the oil and natural gas extracted from shale plays and bring product to market.
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TRIP Executive Summary Maryland’s extensive system of roads, highways and bridges provides the state’s residents, visitors and businesses with a high level of mobility. This transportation system forms the backbone that supports the state’s economy. Maryland’s surface transportation system enables the state’s residents and visitors to travel to work and school, visit family and friends, […]
View this complete post...In a new video, Ericsson’s Head of Strategic Marketing, Patrik Regårdh tells us about the impact ICT is having on cities. People are moving to cities at an astonishing rate. Already today more than 50 percent of the world’s population live in cities. By 2050, that number is expected to be 70 percent. The findings […]
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