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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
Roadbuilding
ACPA backs report calling for more funding for interstate highways
The Transportation Research Board report states interstate funding needs to double or triple to build and replace pavements and bridges for future traffic.
April 23, 2019
Roadbuilding
Eisenhower, founders of Caterpillar among ARTBA inductees for Transportation Development Hall of Fame
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced the addition of four individuals to its Transportation Development Hall of Fame, which honors individuals or families from the public and private sectors who have made extraordinary contributions to the development of transportation in the United States during their careers. Nominations are made in the following two […]
December 6, 2016
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
ARTBA, ATA to host event honoring 60th anniversary of Interstate Highway System
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and the American Trucking Associations (ATA) have a planned a “lunch and policy discussion” June 29 to recognize the 60th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s signing of the law enacting the Interstate Highway System. Brian Pallasch, managing director, government relations and infrastructure initiatives for the American Society of […]
June 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Design flexibility proposal is first step in FHWA’s effort to promote innovative highway solutions
The Federal Highway Administration wants to create design flexibility for highway engineers to promote innovative transportation solutions, and their first step is a proposal to encourage those engineers to design lower-speed roads to match the needs of communities and environmental concerns. The proposal, available here in the Federal Register, would drop the number of design […]
October 13, 2015
Roadbuilding
Reps using former President Reagan to push for gas tax increase
A bipartisan pair of House members are attempting to build support for a federal gas tax increase by using former President Ronald Reagan. The tax was increased in 1982, or two years into the Reagan administration. The move has remained extremely popular among conservatives, and it has not changed since 1993 – four years after […]
December 3, 2014
Roadbuilding
ARTBA announces Hall of Fame inductees
James D. Pitcock, Jr., and Horatio S. Earle are the 2014 inductees to American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Transportation Development Hall of Fame.” Petcock spent 60 years as the  chief executive officer of Texas-based Williams Brothers Construction Company. Earle is the former Michigan highway commissioner who led the good roads movement at the turn […]
November 14, 2014
Roadbuilding
Where, oh where can that road money be?
A Congress that cannot agree pass a budget or even agree not to default on loans is not a group that will ever solve the impending road-funding crisis.
November 6, 2013
Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers – Editor Emeritus
Keeping this in mind can help you maintain your sanity as the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives fiddle and dance through a third year of debate over a new federal transportation program.
April 6, 2012
Maintenance
Final Word
Finding opportunity in changing markets It started as a faint noise on the horizon in the mid-Eighties, a conversation among a few cerebral industry watchers: The Mega Project Era was over. The last miles of the main Interstate Highway system were being built, environmental concerns were shutting down nuclear power plant construction, and the American […]
December 8, 2011
Roadbuilding
RoadWorks
AEM’s new revenue-neutral solution for America’s interstates, Fed grants boost state DOT budgets the EPA backs of its “numeric turbidity linmits” and new infrastructure rankings are among the featured news items.
September 7, 2011
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