AAPA President Testifies on Port and Freight Funding Needs
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSIn written testimony offered before the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness on July 18, Kurt Nagle, president and CEO of American Association of Port Authorities, stressed that – in order to be competitive in the 21st century global economy – the United States “needs a national multi-modal freight network” […]
READ MOREFAA Awards $659.8M in Airport Infrastructure Grants
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe Federal Aviation Administration announced on July 16 it will award $659.8 million in airport infrastructure grants as part of $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program or AIP funding for airports across the U.S. In a statement, the agency said this “second increment” of AIP funding – highlighted in a 16-page document – provides 450 […]
READ MORESurvey: Use of Warm-Mix Asphalt Keeps Climbing
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSAn annual survey conducted by the National Asphalt Pavement Association in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration over the last nine years found that “warm-mix asphalt” made up nearly 39 percent of all asphalt pavement mixtures produced in the United States in 2017. The survey – conducted in the first quarter of 2018 with 238 […]
READ MOREAASHTO Mobile Workshop Explores Spokane’s Bike Infrastructure
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and technology company Iteris organized a three-hour long “mobile workshop” on July 17 during the group’s 2018 Joint Policy Committee Meeting in Spokane, Washington, to explore that city’s growing bike infrastructure and highlight what can be done to foster its further development. Barb Chamberlain, the director […]
READ MOREOregon DOT Director: “It’s a Brave New World of Change”
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSTechnology is rapidly changing all aspects of public and private sector operations, according to Matthew Garrett, director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. And the pace of change is only going to accelerate in the near future, so state DOTs need to ready themselves for both the “challenges and opportunities” that level of change will […]
READ MORERIDOT Releases Initial Tractor-Trailer Tolling Results
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe Rhode Island Department of Transportation released key data from the state’s tractor-trailer-only tolling program gathered from June 11, when the program began, through July 10. The data included the number of transactions, number of diversions, and receivables from gantry Locations 1 and 2, the agency – part of an effort to “maintain transparency” about […]
READ MOREDDOT Now Accepting Applications for TAP funding
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSRoughly $1.2 million in grants are being made available by the District Department of Transportation through the federal Transportation Alternatives Program or TAP, which provides funding to projects considered to be “alternatives” to traditional highway construction. Applications will be accepted through August 15, DDOT said in a statement, and eligible project sponsors include local governments, […]
READ MOREMississippi DOT Workers Honored for Saving Injured Motorcyclist
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe tasks Keith Herrington and Marvin Lindsey usually perform as maintenance workers with the Mississippi Department of Transportation tend towards the mundane, involving everything from patching roadway potholes to picking up litter strewn along the sides of the state’s many highways. But MDOT recently honored the two men for a deed far outside their normal […]
READ MORENomination Cycle Begins for Transportation Vanguard Award
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is soliciting nominations for the 2018 Transportation Vanguard Award, with submissions accepted from member transportation departments until August 17, 2018. Details the nomination process for the awards can be found at https://meetings.transportation.org/aashto-awards/. Send nominations via e-mail to pngethe@aashto.org as a single file in Microsoft Word format […]
READ MOREGlenn Page Joins AASHTO’s Project Delivery Team
AASHTO Program Director of Media Relations and TV Production July 20, 2018 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is welcoming Glenn Page aboard as the organization’s associate program director for project delivery, reporting to Jim McDonnell, AASHTO’s program director for engineering. Page (seen below) will be responsible for overseeing AASHTO staff on the project delivery team, as well as staffing the group’s research advisory […]
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