USDOT Secretary Chao Announces New Rural Infrastructure Focus
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSU.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (seen above) said her agency is launching a new rural infrastructure-focused initiative during a speech at the 2019 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials annual meeting in St. Louis – an effort that will be buttressed by the creation the Rural Transportation Council that will officially […]
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Transportation Safety, Funding Will Be Emphasis Areas for New AASHTO President
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSPatrick McKenna, director of the Missouri Department of Transportation, has been elected to serve as the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials 2019-2020 president. The organization also elected New Hampshire Department of Transportation Commissioner Victoria Sheehan as its vice president – only the second woman in the association’s 105-year history to serve in […]
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Highway Rights-of-Way May Be Key for Developing Hyperloop
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSEstablishing the hyperloop electro-magnetic transportation system on a regional and/or national basis may hinge on highway rights-of-way, viewed as the ideal footprint for constructing the low-pressure tubes that will contain the high-speed hyperloop pods expected to travel at 670 mph. “How do we leverage the investment in the highway system that we’ve made? How do […]
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Missouri Governor Calls for ‘Bold’ Transportation Solutions
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSMissouri Governor Mike Parson (R) believes that “imagination and necessity are changing transportation across this country” and that “bold solutions” will be needed to provide “safe, convenient, and accessible transportation options” for travel throughout the United States now and in the future. “You can make a lot of things a priority, but if you make […]
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AAA Says Pedestrian Detection Systems ‘Perform Inconsistently’
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSNew research from AAA indicates that motor vehicles equipped with automatic emergency braking or AEB systems that feature pedestrian detection capability “perform inconsistently.” The pedestrian -detection technology also is “completely ineffective at night,” which the group called “alarming” as 75 percent of pedestrian fatalities occur after dark. [Above photo by AAA.] AAA also found that […]
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AASHTO Resolution Seeks Compliance Transition for Roadside Safety Devices
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials unanimously passed a resolution at the organization’s 2019 annual meeting in St. Louis that established several key points as the industry seeks to eventually transition to new performance-based roadside safety device compliance measures in the coming years – an effort delayed by the lack of a […]
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AASHTO Board Approves 10 Surface Transportation Reauthorization Policy Resolutions
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe board of directors of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved 10 detailed resolutions outlining the surface transportation funding policy positions the organization plans to support as that key federal legislation needs to be reauthorized in 2020. [Above photo by Cathy Morrison/MoDOT.] The current 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation or FAST […]
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AASHTO Board Approves Joint Position Statements with ARTBA, AGC
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe board of directors for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved four joint position statements at its 2019 annual meeting in St. Louis in conjunction with the American Road & Transportation Builders Association and the Associated General Contractors of America. Those joint statements ranged from the highly technical – the use […]
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Steudle Wins Bartlett Award, Tudor Receives Johnson Achievement Award
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSLongtime transportation industry veteran Kirk Steudle (seen above at right), the former director of the Michigan Department of Transportation, received the George S. Bartlett Award at the 2019 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials annual meeting in St. Louis in recognition of his long and continuing service to the transportation industry. [Above photo […]
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Three State DOTs Win Top Honors at the 2019 America’s Transportation Awards
editor@aashto.org October 11, 2019 0 COMMENTSThe Infrastructure Improvements to Downtown St. Louis project – a collaboration between Illinois and Missouri DOT teams (seen above) that delivered major multimodal enhancements to both states – received the Grand Prize in the 2019 America’s Transportation Awards competition during the 2019 American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials annual meeting in St. Louis. The $801 […]
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