The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) recently selected James J. Tymon as executive director during the annual board of directors meeting. Tymon joined AAS...
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The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) recently said it opposes California’s Proposition 6, which would repeal The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB 1). “With the passag...
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The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) recently won the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) President’s Transportation Awards at the AASHTO’s annual c...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has allocated $14 million in Emergency Relief (ER) funds to help restore roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Florence throughout North Carolina. Department...
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) this week ruled that individuals with properly controlled diabetes can be qualified to drive commercial vehicles by a medical examiner. “W...
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The Arizona Department of Transportation’s Interstate 17 (I-17) wrong-way vehicle alert system has garnered recognition for its innovative impact. Officials said the system has received GCN magaz...
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The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) recently announced it had been awarded a $322,461 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) grant to manage the ...
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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) recently sold a 21-acre parcel of land along the north side of Interstate-10 near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport for $28.7 million. Eight b...
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Collin Long, the director of government affairs at the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), recently testified at the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Environment...
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New York State received recognition from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) this week for implementations of the New York State Pedestrian Safety Action Plan -- a $110 million, five-year ...
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The Georgia Department of Transportation recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Northwest Corridor Express Lanes that opened to traffic on Sept. 8. The $834 million project began construct...
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At a meeting of the Automobile Dealers Association of North Dakota, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) laid out the tax and regulatory relief benefits passed by Congress this year and how they will benefit ...
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Oklahoma is joining other states across the country in going electric, with the opening of two electric vehicle charging stations in the parking lot of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s (O...
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The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) elected Darrin Grondel, director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, as chairman at the association’s annual meeting in Atlanta last month. ...
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Oklahoma’s infrastructure is slated for a major update, now that the Oklahoma Transportation Commission has signed off on updated improvement plans for the state’s highway and county road systems ...
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Nine states’ departments of transportation recently were awarded $8.4 million in Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration awards. The departmen...
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Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm expected to hit between South Carolina and Virginia, will likely have a negative impact on gasoline prices this week on the East Coast. Prices in South Caroli...
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The Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) sent a letter on Sept. 5 to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) urging Congress to pa...
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By allowing exemptions for small refiners from their blending obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard, economists at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute...
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently announced that it would provide $225 million in Competitive Highway Bridge Program (CHBP) grant funds to rural states to maintain bridges. FHWA pu...
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