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Roadbuilding
Austin develops new Street Design Guide
In preparation for continued growth, the city of Austin, Texas, updated its Street Design Guide for the first time in nearly 10 years, kxan reports. The updated guide, which was developed by the Austin Transportation Department in coordination with other city departments and Capital Metro, will work with the city’s new Austin Strategic Mobility Plan to help engineers use the same […]
June 29, 2017
Roadbuilding
MIT research finds road maintenance can lower CO2 emissions
If Congress and drivers need another reason to invest money in road maintenance, reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be it. According to a report from MIT News, a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) researchers—Arghavan Louhghalam and Mehdi Akbarian, plus CSHub faculty director Professor Franz-Josef Ulm—offers […]
September 9, 2016
Roadbuilding
USDOT announces Every Place Counts Design Challenge winning locations
The four winners of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Every Place Counts Design Challenge are set to receive “on-site technical assistance from the department and design experts in the field.” The program is an effort to “raise awareness” about barriers to transportation infrastructure and “identify innovative solutions” to reconnect people to essential services. The […]
June 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Committee calls for multi-modal flexibility in AASHTO roadway design guidelines
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Highways has adopted a resolution calling for the group’s next roadway design guidelines offer flexibility to better blend “all modes of travel”. State departments of transportation engineers make up the committee and recommended the changes to AASHTO’s “A Policy on Geometric Design […]
May 30, 2016
Roadbuilding
Here’s an idea
As our transportation infrastructure woes get more woeful, figuring out how to get work done for today and tomorrow and way into the future isn’t getting any easier. The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) will present its second annual TransOvation Conference for transportation design and construction pros in Virginia in July. I went […]
June 1, 2012
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