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Roadbuilding

Caltrans automated warning system provides real-time info to motorists

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has strengthened its automated warning system (AWS) throughout the state as a means of increasing traffic safety and efficiency to the more than 30 million registered vehicles there. Caltrans’ AWS systems are being installed to monitor road conditions, weather and travel times, and provide real-time details to motorists. To […]

December 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

Dave Ross to replace Mark Gottlieb as Wisconsin DOT secretary

Gov. Scott Walker has named Dave Ross as the next Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Secretary, replacing Mark Gottlieb who resigning effective Jan. 6. Ross, who will take over the department Jan. 7, formerly served as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. Before that, he served two terms as mayor of […]

December 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

Two bridge replacements complete at Rondout Reservoir in N.Y.

The $7 million replacement of two 60-year-old bridges— the 150-foot-long Lows Corners Bridge carrying Route 55A over Rondout Creek, and the 50-foot-long Sugarloaf Bridge carrying Sundown Road over Sugarloaf Brook—has been completed, MidHudsonNews.com reports. The two bridges are located at the upper end of Rondout Reservoir in Sullivan County, New York. “Projects like this are important for the […]

December 30, 2016

Roadbuilding

PennDOT takes new narrative-based approach to historic resource mitigation

Editor’s Note: The following editorial was provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) District 2 recently debuted an online, interactive story map for the Potters Mills Gap Transportation Project (PMG) on Route 322, in Centre County. The story map is part of an innovative, creative effort to mitigate project impacts […]

December 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

Seven states set to increase fuel taxes starting in 2017

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s (ITEP) Tax Justice Blog reports seven states are set to increase gas taxes starting in 2017, with two states actually dropping gas taxes. The majority of the increase, four in total, are automatic changes set by formulas by the state legislatures, as it is for the two decreases. […]

December 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

USDOT’s Build America Bureau to help finance $2 billion for Seattle Transit Projects

Four Seattle transit projects could get roughly $2 billion in financing through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (BAB). The Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) and the BAB recently signed a Master Credit Agreement—“a first-of-its-kind arrangement in which the local transit authority will be able to expedite multiple loan requests […]

December 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

Yucca Loma Bridge in Calif. set to open May 2017

Apple Valley (Calif.) officials have tentatively scheduled a date for the opening of the Yucca Loma Bridge over the Mojave River. Town spokeswoman Kathie Martin told the Daily Press the bridge will open to traffic nearly two months ahead of schedule on May 22, 2017, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and community bike ride scheduled for May […]

December 29, 2016

Roadbuilding

France opens world’s first solar highway in Normandy as part of larger 4-year deployment

France has opened the world’s first “solar highway,” a half-mile-long “Wattway” covered with 30,000 square feet of resin-coated solar panels that is connected to the local power grid, according to a report from Phys.org The country’s Environment Minister Segolene Royal was present at the highway’s opening. The solar road will provide power to the street lights of Tourouvre in Normandy. […]

December 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Maryland DOT seeks approval for testing autonomous vehicles on I-95

The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking approval to designate part of Interstate 95 as a future automated vehicle (AV) testing and deployment area. The proposal asks to make the designation for I-95 from Aberdeen Proving Ground to the Fort Meade/University of Maryland region. It […]

December 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Pavia Systems partners with Babson College’s entrepreneurship program

Pavia Systems, makers of HeadLight, a mobile project inspection tool used for transportation construction, has partnered with Babson College on the school’s entrepreneurship program. “Pavia Systems took the time to truly understand the pain their target customer experiences, designed a product for it, and created a sophisticated strategy for successfully selling it through a complicated […]

December 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Illinois Tollway approves 3 construction contracts valued at $11.7 million

The Illinois Tollway recently approved three construction contracts valued at $11.7 million at its December meeting, bringing the 2016 total for construction and engineering services to $340 million. The Tollway reports roughly $4.5 billion has been invested since the 15-year, $12 billion Move Illinois program began in 2012. “While we still have room to improve, we’re […]

December 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Former Iowa DOT head Trombino named president of McClure Engineering

Paul Trombino, the former Iowa Department of Transportation director who resigned from that position unexpectedly in November, will take over as president of McClure Engineering Company effective Jan. 3. The company, which was founded in 1956, reports that roughly 80 percent of its civil engineering services last year were in the public sector. Forty percent […]

December 27, 2016