U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) recently questioned Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson and other officials on the railroad’s failure to connect rural areas to the rest of the country.
"I really hope moving ...
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Private and academic interests have aligned in the form of autonomous vehicle research, culminating in a five-year, $15 million research partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and the self-dri...
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project completed last year to connect the more than 1,900-mile I-95 from Maine to Miami is proving to be a success on several fronts.
The most s...
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The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) recently asked federal lawmakers to protect the eligibility of public infrastructure projects under the government’s employment-based E...
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Ground was broken this month on an anxiously awaited highway project outside of Washington, D.C., one of the latest examples of the public and private sector acting as partners to advance critical sta...
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Global electric vehicle (EV) charging network ChargePoint and Electrify America LLC, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, are partnering to expand access to EV charging stations nationwide.
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Amtrak is continuing work on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) that connects Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Currently, crews are upgrading 31 miles of track between Washington Union and Baltimore Penn st...
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Daimler Trucks recently announced it launched the Autonomous Technology Group, a global organization for exploring the strategy and implementation of the automated driving.
The group, which launche...
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United Airlines recently renewed its biofuel contract with World Energy.
United signed its first contract in 2013. Under the renewal, the airline will purchase up to 10 million gallons of aviation ...
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EVgo will soon have additional fast charging electric vehicle stations set up at various Chevron gas stations in California.
“We are excited to be working with EVgo to install electric vehicle ch...
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The Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport will launch a sixth terminal in the coming years, in conjunction with American Airlines.
DFW plans to invest between $3 billion and 3.5 billion in...
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Two reports by the World Resources Institute (WRI) provides a step-by-step guide for achieving electric bus adoption targets.
The reports examine 16 cities that attempted to adopt electric buses wi...
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Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT will invest $31 million into railroad infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor (NEC), under a partnership expected to extend throughout the year.
The plan will start at th...
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As part of the national “infrastructure week,” three public interest groups have released a new report showing a need for targeted investments to alleviate infrastructure woes.
Though the fede...
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Raytheon Co., a defense, civil government, and cybersecurity solutions company, is partnering with Frequentis, an air-traffic communications and data solutions provider, to equip U.S. civilian airpo...
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The Partnership for Transportation Innovation and
Opportunity (PTIO) sent letters last week to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR),
chairman of House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Eleanor...
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More than $26 million will be invested into safety and reliability upgrades for a daily train route which passes through Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, thanks to a pledge of fund matching by Amtrak...
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A partnership between Visa and Planet Informatica has yielded the Visa Secure Access Module (SAM) -- a new technology meant to help public transit operators collect payments through contactless cards...
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BNSF Railway Co. announced last week that it will invest approximately $405 million in Texas for capital expenditures and maintenance.
The investment is part of the company’s $3.57 billion ne...
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The BNSF Railway Company has announced that 2019 will yield $3.57 billion of investment into the maintenance and expansion of its network.
Much of this will be focused on replacing BNSF’s prima...
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