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U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (above) appeared before the House of Representative Committee on Appropriations April 20 to defend the proposed fiscal year 2024 budget for his agency and its modal divisions. [Above image via House video feed] The $6.9 trillion fiscal year 2024 budget proposal unveiled March 9 by President Biden provides a total […]

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently provided details on the keynote speaker for its 2023 Spring Meeting – to be held May 15-18 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle – as well as the conference’s various knowledge sessions. [Above image by AASHTO] A draft of the AASHTO 2023 Spring Meeting agenda that […]

The annual National Work Zone Awareness Week outreach campaign – conducted April 17-21– involved state departments of transportation and other industry groups from across the country in a variety of public events aimed at reducing fatalities and injuries caused highway work zone crashes. [Above photo by Georgia DOT] At a national kickoff event for the […]

In its latest projections, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said traffic fatalities declined slightly to 42,795 people in 2022 – a 0.3 percent drop compared to the 42,939 traffic fatalities reported for 2021. [Above photo by WSDOT] As a result, the estimated fatality rate decreased to 1.35 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled […]

Several state departments of transportation got a head start on efforts to support the 2023 National Work Zone Awareness Week or NWZAW campaign by initiating their own state-level work zone safety efforts. [Above photo by Work Zone Safety] For example, as part of their respective preparations for the national 2023 NWZAW effort, the Oklahoma Department […]

The Federal Highway Administration recently issued nearly $300 million in grants for nine small and medium-sized bridge projects in both rural and urban areas of eight states and the District of Columbia; money provided through the new Bridge Investment Program established by the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or IIJA, which was enacted […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued 64 grants totaling more than $21.5 million through its new “Thriving Communities” program to fund two years of no-cost intensive technical assistance to help under-resourced and disadvantaged communities “identify, develop, and deliver” local transportation projects. [Above photo by the USDOT] Managed by the Build America Bureau within USDOT, […]

As part of an ongoing effort to help deliver surface transportation projects faster, the Federal Highway Administration has issued a Request for Information or RFP to finds ways to improve environmental review processes. [Above image by the FHWA] The agency said this effort is being spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act or IRA signed into law in […]

You could literally feel the excitement and tension fill the West Virginia University Institute of Technology’ Van Meter Gym as middle and high school students watched the destructive testing of bridge models they built with balsa wood and Elmer’s wood glue at the 2023 West Virginia Bridge Design & Build Contest. [Above left to right: […]