June 8, 2023
  • 10:49 am New Home on the Web for the AASHTO Journal
  • 12:07 pm Buttigieg Defends USDOT FY 2024 Budget at Hearing
  • 12:01 pm AASHTO Offers Robust Program for 2023 Spring Meeting
  • 11:58 am Will ‘Happiness’ Be the Next Key Transportation Metric?
  • 11:54 am FTA Plans to Beef up Transit Worker Protections

The Center for Michigan Public Engagement released a report on May 28 that indicates Michigan residents are “divided” on how much more money the state should spend to fix its roads and bridges, as well as on where that money should come from. According to the Fixing Michigan’s Road Mess: The Unclear Path Ahead report, […]

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Bob Brock (seen above), director of aviation and unmanned aircraft systems at the Kansas Department of Transportation, was one of 12 new members named to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Drone Advisory Committee. The 35-member DAC is a broad-based, long-term federal advisory committee that provides the FAA advice on key unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) integration issues […]

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Charles Carr, director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation’s Office of Intermodal Planning, received the Dr. Aaron Henry Distinguished Service Award from the Community Transportation Association of America on May 22 for the second time during the group’s annual conference – held this year in Palm Springs, CA. The organization gave this award to Carr […]

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Water is scarce commodity at highway rest areas managed by Arizona Department of Transportation, with most of them located in remote desert locations and relying on their own wells. That’s partly why the agency made changes over the last few years that today save 40,000 gallons of water every day across the 28 highway rest […]

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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently issued the second edition of its “Guidelines for Geometric Design of Low-Volume Roads,” available from the AASHTO Store by clicking here. First published in 2001, AASHTO’s guidelines aim to help highway engineers select appropriate geometric designs for local and collector roads with low daily traffic […]

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