Tag: transportation planning

Roadbuilding

AASHTO, FHWA to continue Center for Environmental Excellence agreement for 5 years

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) will continue their agreement for another five years in continuing the Center for Environment Excellence. The program was authorized by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). FHWA and AASHTO established the center in 2001 […]

September 1, 2016

Roadbuilding

Iowa DOT asks for public comment on future of state’s transportation

The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) is seeking comments from the public on its Iowa in Motion 2045 long-range transportation plan. The agency in February asked for public feedback on investment categories and strategies for transportation projects. Iowa DOT used the comments to help create the “overall system vision and the types of investments […]

August 9, 2016

Roadbuilding

White House releases infrastructure planning and design guide

The White House has made available the “Federal Resource Guide for Infrastructure Planning and Design” as part of President Obama’s Build America Investment Initiative launched last July. The guide was released May 5, the same day the White House held a roundtable with infrastructure experts in partnership with the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. The meeting’s purpose […]

May 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

Colorado DOT sets strategic blueprint for the next 25 years

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) March 19 officially adopted the 2040 Statewide Transportation Plan (STP)—a plan officials say outlines the department’s “needs and strategic actions” during the next 10 and 25 years. “The 2040 Statewide Transportation Plan serves as an excellent starting point for moving CDOT into the position of becoming the best DOT in […]

March 24, 2015

Roadbuilding

Hey Congressman, watch this ARTBA video

The American Roads and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has released a new video. The message is old. That’s kind of the point. The message has been the same for years now. Fix the Highway Trust Fund. So the message is also of vital importance to the transportation infrastructure community, both in terms of work and […]

March 12, 2013

Roadbuilding

President pushes transportation construction speed-up in TV meetings

President Obama is set to sit down today for interviews with half a dozen television stations from major cities to push a plan that will speed up transportation construction projects. This has been a clearly-stated and much publicized goal of FHWA and its Administrator Victor Mendez for some time, obviously with the backing of the […]

February 20, 2013

Roadbuilding

ASCE on what it costs to not spend on infrastructure

Failure to spend $157 billion between now and 2020 to upgrade the U.S. infrastructure, including surface transportation, aviation, waterways, the electrical grid and sewers, could lead to losses of more than $3.1 trillion in gross domestic product and $1.1 trillion in total trade — as well as a loss of 3.5 million jobs, according to […]

January 16, 2013

Roadbuilding

Is reauthorization liftoff closer now?

Bipartisanship. It has been said for a long time that transportation is the most bipartisan of issues on the Hill. Maybe it still is. So now the Democratic-lead Senate and the Republican-lead  House agree on funding levels for a new surface transportation act — new legislation would keep it at current levels. They already basically […]

November 7, 2011

Roadbuilding

How do YOU ID, choose and use safety performance measures in transportation planning?

In 2008 more than 37,000 people were killed and nearly 2.35 million were injured in crashes on the Nation’s roadways, according to the recently released study, A Primer on Safety Performance Measures for the Transportation Planning Process, from the Federal Highway Administration in tandem with the Transportation Safety Planning Working Group (TSPWG). The TSPWG–an informal, […]

December 23, 2009

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks: MPOs May Merit Makeover

The Department of Transportation has agreed to look into recommendations that could change the way Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) work.

October 1, 2009