The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is testing an asphalt mix that contains recycled plastic polymer as part of the agency’s sustainable transportation initiatives. The pilot projec...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded 14 universities nationwide more than $16 million in grants for aviation emissions and noise reduction research. The universities are members of th...
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A new report from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) finds that workforce shortages are causing service problems for transportation providers across the country, regardless of the s...
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Researchers at the Mineta Transportation Institute have found communities looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) must focus on emissions from freight as a major contributor. According to...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) shared resources available in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address the nation’s truck parking shortage at the National Coalition of Truck Parking ...
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear unveiled the publication of his administration's "Complete Streets, Roads and Highways Manual" to promote safer, more equitable transportation. Beshear's Better Kentucky...
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According to a new report from the American Public Transportation Association, public transportation ridership rose to more than 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September. After falling signi...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced Thursday it would make $6.5 million in research funding available for innovative transit bus automation demonst...
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On Wednesday, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Electreon announced they had entered into a five-year agreement to develop and implement a scalable, wireless, public in-road EV char...
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The Maritime Administration (MARAD) recently launched a 16-month study of low-carbon options for shipping on the Great Lakes. A research group will assess the suitability of alternative fuels and p...
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U.S. Rep. Sam Groves (R-MO) joined U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-IL) and Rick Crawford (R-AR) in calling for a review of a railcar contract from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SE...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently opened the application period for two programs that will award approximately $160 million annually over the next five years to projects that use technolo...
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An estimated 20,175 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes during the first half of 2022, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an approximately 0.5 percent increase c...
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The Biden Administration announced Friday it had organized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between four federal agencies that will accelerate the nation’s affordable and equitable clean transpor...
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A newly released report from the Association of American Railroads (AAR) has found that interruption to the country’s rail service could impact economic output and cost more than $2 billion per day....
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released an update to its Cybersecurity Best Practices for the Safety of Modern Vehicles. It was last updated in 2016. The document describe...
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Nevada recently launched NevadaBuilds.com, a website dedicated to state infrastructure projects. The website illustrates infrastructure investments coming to Nevada through the Infrastructure Inves...
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Nearly half of fatal crashes occur on rural roads despite only 19 percent of the U.S. population living in rural areas, according to a recent Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) report funded ...
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The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San Jose State University recently released research into the use of blockchain to enable decentralized delivery and financing of urban infrastructure. ...
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Purdue University civil engineers have developed a fully automated, portable system to estimate the volume of stockpiles of bulk supplies, according to a paper recently published in the journal Remote...
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