A group of legislators in the House of Representatives introduced last week a bill meant to combat climate change and fund development through the introduction of a carbon emissions fee. While carb...
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U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) joined local leaders in Delaware last week for a biking and promotional tour of potential bike trails and lanes to bolster support for America's Transportation Infrastructu...
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Maryland recently opened a service station for electric vehicles (EV) in Montgomery County that is the nation’s first fully converted gas-to-electric refueling station. The station can accommoda...
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) granted a repeal last week of a 103-year-old federal procurement rule that the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) filed a formal peti...
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The Colorado Department of Transportation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week in honor of the substantial completion of the $11.2 million US 285 Resurfacing Project. The project took seven mon...
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During the second quarter of this year, Americans took more than 2.5 billion passenger trips on public transportation, an 11 million trip increase from 2018, according to an American Public Transporta...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently updated a more than 100-year-old rule that dictates which products or services can be used on federally funded ...
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Secretary Jim Trogdon released a video last week, discussing a recently developed plan to increase the state’s number of zero-emission vehicle...
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Under a six-month pilot program, public mobility provider and developer Via partnered with the City of Birmingham and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham to on-demand, shared-ride services ...
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The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced Monday the selection of Steve McGough, president and chief financial officer of the highway and utility construction softwar...
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The New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program has been renewed with more than $20 million in available funds, including more than $9 million from the federal Volkswagen settlement. The program perm...
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Driving on roads in disrepair costs motorists $533 annually in vehicle repairs and operating costs, according to a report by QuoteWizard, or $120 billion nationwide. This figure rises to $752 in the 1...
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New York’s bridges are growing increasingly unstable and untenable, according to a new report produced by the transportation research nonprofit TRIP, which found that 10 percent of the state’s bri...
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Funds included in the fiscal year 2020 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development appropriations bill could be used to support repairs on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Maryland or the Nati...
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The Rural Economic Infrastructure Equity Act of 2019, introduced last week by U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Braun (R-IN), proposes to create a new federal office under the U.S. Department of ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) an $8.4 million grant to test the safe integration of automated driving systems (ADS) int...
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) recently released a report that highlights how the state will meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction goals under the 2007 Next Generation Energy ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded nearly $60 million in federal grant funding to eight projects in seven states to test the safe integration of automated driving systems. The...
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(Updates with response from CSX Corp.) In a Sept. 16 letter to CSX Corp. CEO James Foote, U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), along with U.S. Rep. David Trone (D-MD), urged th...
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The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) recently awarded the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission with the 2019 President’s Award for Toll Excellence, the association’s top h...
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