The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), in partnership with Trane, will replace more than 9,600 highway lights with light-emitting diode (LED) versions beginning in the spring. The change...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s District 1 had more than 50 projects worth more than $100 million under construction in 2019. The district is located in the state’s northwest a...
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Congressional committee leaders received a letter Dec. 20 from nine transportation-focused organizations urging federal funding for automated speed enforcement in work zones throughout the United Stat...
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The U.S. transportation infrastructure market is expected to continue growing in 2020, according to projections from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), but the outlook fo...
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The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) announced earlier this month a $1 million grant award from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation to help develop the Downtown Pittsburgh Mobility Plan, which will s...
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The first nine months of 2019 saw traffic deaths fall by 2.2 percent -- to 26,730 people -- according to the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data, with the third quarter ...
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Missouri’s Focus on Bridges program, initiated by Gov. Mike Parson, officially finished its first project last week, reopening a new Route 72 bridge after six months of work. While the bridge is...
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AAA recently issued its winter outlook for gasoline prices by region. In the Great Lakes and Central states, drivers can expect to see prices 10 cents less expensive per gallon than last winter but...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) last week released a request for information to the public, seeking greater insights into rural transportation, including challenges to its infrastructure...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau recently provided the North Carolina Turnpike Authority with a $501.5 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (T...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released an update on automakers’ progress manufacturing vehicles with low-speed automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems. Tw...
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A dozen states across the Northeast and the District of Columbia recently released a Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) draft agreement, which outlines a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
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In an announcement made this week, the Ford Motor Company pledged investments topping $1.45 billion into two of its southeast Michigan manufacturing facilities and promised to add as many as 3,000 new...
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Drivers with experience using advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are nearly twice as likely to engage in distracted driving when the systems are in use, according to research from the AAA Found...
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As part of a $50 million transportation cost-share program under Gov. Mike Parson, the Missouri Departments of Transportation (MoDOT) and Economic Development (DED) recently selected 20 road and bridg...
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The board of commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently approved a $4.8 million demonstration program. The 18-month project will test technologies that could increase...
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The governors of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming signed a new memorandum of understanding last week, reaffirming mutual dedication to creating electric vehicle...
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North Dakota is on track to end 2019 with less than 100 traffic fatalities for the first time since 2002. As of the publication of the report Wednesday, traffic fatalities for the state in 2019 tot...
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The states of California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont collectively pledged to create a plan that would speed up the transition to zero-emission veh...
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Virginia’s Hampton Roads region will benefit from as much as $502.9 million in Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan funds, according to the U.S. Department of Transp...
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