The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials are accepting applications for the AASHTO Executive Institute (AEI), the third and final installment in the association’s revamped leadership development series. AEI, formerly known as the National Transportation Advanced Leadership Institute, will offer a unique senior executive professional development experience October 4 – 7, 2021 in […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is seeking applicants for three positions: a program manager for Operations Policy; an alliance manager for the AASHTOWare program; and a director of national operations for the National Operations Center of Excellence.   Full details including job requirements and duties are available at https://jobs.transportation.org.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently issued a new publications catalog. The new index – entitled AASHTO Publications Catalog-2021, Volume 2 – includes the latest information concerning the organization’s publications, including descriptions, available formats, and prices. This 2021 Publications Catalog features several recently released AASHTO publications, including the following: Guidelines for […]

The Center for Environmental Excellence – a partnership through the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Federal Highway Administration – launched a new website to provide faster and easier access to information for users, available at https://environment.transportation.org. Established in 2001, the Center promotes environmental stewardship, encourages innovation and serves as a […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently issued a new bridge publication: Guidelines for Maintaining Small Movement Bridge Expansion Joints, First Edition. Available as a PDF download, this new publication provides bridge maintenance practitioners with detailed procedures for replacing, repairing, and maintaining Small Movement Expansion Joints – known as “SMEJs.” The guidelines […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is extending the registration deadline for two programs within a new leadership development series unveiled last year; programs revamped under a new contract with the University of Kansas signed in October 2020. AASHTO’s 2021 leadership development series includes three newly renamed leadership development institutes – the AASHTO […]

AASHTOWare, a division of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, is offering a webinar on May 25 at 1:00 pm EST to review implementation of “Empirical Bayes” methodology via its AASHTOWare Safety powered by Numetric software package. “Empirical Bayes methods” are procedures for statistical inference in which prior distribution is estimated from […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is seeking a new associate program manager for planning and data, who will support the administration and implementation of programs, projects and special assignments related to the committees on planning, performance-based management, plus data management and analysis. Job duties include the development and implementation of internal […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Board of Directors approved forming a new Transportation Performance Management or TPM technical service program during its 2021 virtual spring meeting. The new technical service program will provide an “umbrella program” of products and services to help state departments of transportation implement robust TPM programs within […]

For the second year in a row, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials hosted the “Virtual Bridge Showcase” to celebrate the hard work of the students participating in the organization’s Transportation and Civil Engineering or TRAC program. The TRAC program provides students in grades seven through 12 the opportunity to get involved […]