West Virginia DOT Making Headway on Secondary Road Repair Work
editor@aashto.org April 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSDuring an April 16 press conference, Governor Jim Justice (R) (seated at left) said the West Virginia Department of Transportation’s highway division has been “working like crazy” for a month to make a host of repairs to secondary roads across the Mountaineer state. [Above photo by the West Virginia DOT.] “We’ve got so much good […]
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VDOT to Lead I-95 Corridor Study, Introduces Portable Rumble Strips, Shuffles Executives
editor@aashto.org April 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSApril is proving to be a busy month for the Virginia Department of Transportation, as it will be heading up a multi-agency Interstate 95 Corridor study, even as it shuffled its executive ranks and deployed portable rumble strips for the first time in highway work zones. [Above photo by the Virginia DOT.] On April 10 […]
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Utah DOT, UTA Join Forces on Express Bus Proposal, Autonomous Shuttle Pilot
editor@aashto.org April 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Transit Authority are joining forces on two projects: a 29-mile express bus service proposal to meet transit needs in the Mountain View corridor along with a one-year pilot test of an autonomous shuttle bus service. [Above photo by Utah DOT.] The proposed express bus service would serve […]
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During a press event on April 17, the Maryland Department of Transportation said that total traffic fatalities declined 8.5 percent year-over-year for the state, with deaths due to vehicles crashes dropping to 511 in 2018 compared to 558 in 2017. The 2018 tally is also lower than the 522 traffic fatalities reported for 2016, noted […]
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AASHTO Releases First of Three 2019 Updates for Materials Standards Publication
editor@aashto.org April 19, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials released the first of three 2019 updates this month for its Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials and Methods of Sampling and Testing and AASHTO Provisional Standards – commonly referred to as the Materials Standards publication – which contain specifications, test methods, and provisional standards commonly used […]
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Two systems designated by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Innovation Initiative, known as A.I.I., as “lead technologies” recently won a pair of safety awards. The Michigan Department of Transportation recently took home the Governor’s Traffic Safety Advisory Commission 2018 Outstanding Traffic Safety Achievement Award for its Gateway Treatment. That low-cost safety […]
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council or TC3 recently launched a just-in-time or JIT video library, featuring more than 60 free videos in four broad categories: construction, maintenance, materials, plus traffic and safety. Those videos, which can be accessed at any time via TC3’s YouTube channel, share information […]
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