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Roadbuilding

Report: Interstate beset by congestion, coronavirus-related funding shortfalls

There’s little good news for the U.S. interstate highway system, which turns 64 years old this year. Beleaguered by traffic, congestion and too little funding, the system is unable to meet the demands placed on it, says a new report released by the highway advocacy group TRIP. In addition, the dramatic decrease in vehicle travel […]

July 17, 2020

Construction Equipment

Reimagining the Screed: Brothers invent new screed system that achieves denser asphalt mats

Contractors report seeing higher density readings behind the screed with wave-textured, instead of flat, screed plates.

July 15, 2020

Roadbuilding

Pennsylvania work-zone cameras catch over 40,000 speeders

Pennsylvania began using automated cameras to improve work zone safety and has since captured thousands of speeding violators. Details here.

July 13, 2020

Roadbuilding

Cash-strapped NCDOT hit with $500 million budget cut

The North Carolina DOT overspent its budget for the last fiscal year, which led the legislature to cut funding and add more oversight of the DOT and its board.

July 7, 2020

Roadbuilding

House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill; construction groups offer mixed response

Construction industry groups have mixed reactions to the Moving Forward Act and hold out hope a bipartisan compromise can be reached. More on Equipment World.

July 6, 2020

Roadbuilding

Contract awards highest in 5 years for highways, bridges, ARTBA reports

Contract award values for state and local highway and bridge projects between March and May 2020 rose to their highest levels since 2015 for the same three-month period, according to a chart from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. Despite the slow economy, some states have been able to ramp up road and bridge […]

July 2, 2020

Roadbuilding

XCMG deploys new autonomous rollers to build China highway

Chinese equipment manufacturer XCMG says it has successfully tested its new autonomous asphalt compactor during construction of a new highway in China. The technology for the autonomous machine was developed in a partnership of XCMG, Sichuan Railway Investment Group and Tsinghua University. XCMG says its new autonomous road roller succeeded in tests at the end […]

June 30, 2020

Roadbuilding

ARTBA names 4 to Transportation Development Hall of Fame

The 2020 inductees into the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s Transportation Development Hall of Fame are as follows:   Peter Kiewit (1900-1979)  Peter Kiewit became president of his family’s construction company in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1931 at age 30 and shifted the company’s focus to building highways. The company ended up building more […]

June 26, 2020

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NAPA-led group seeks highway funding to end recession

The National Asphalt Pavement Association is leading a social media campaign to push for federal funding for highway construction to revive the economy.

June 24, 2020

Roadbuilding

How road construction fares in Democrat, GOP funding plans

A flurry of activity has been occurring recently in Washington on transportation funding. How would the various proposals affect roadbuilding?

June 22, 2020

Roadbuilding

I-285/20 interchange near Atlanta set for $350-450M revamp

Construction is expected to start in 2022 on the reconstruction of the I-285/20 East interchange in DeKalb County. See Equipment World for details.

June 18, 2020

Roadbuilding

Report: Commercial traffic bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels

A new Samsara report shows that, on average, states are 95 percent away from commercial traffic levels before coronavirus led to shutdown orders.

June 16, 2020