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- Wisconsin Department of Transportation lags behind peers in setting
- Editor's note: The following story kicks off an occasional series inspired by the April 2 gas-line explosion in Oconomowoc and the discovery that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation does not check safety records when hiring contractors. Quad/Graphics Inc. won't hire contractors with below-average safety records. Joe...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- CEO of MTA outlines strategies for growth, efficiencies for savings
- The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which accounts for two-thirds of all rail riders in the nation, has made a dramatic comeback since the I970s and 1980s, when it was known for graffiti-covered subway cars and delay-plagued commuter trains. But serving more than 8 million public transit customers efficiently each day requires...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
- Texas Ponders Adding Existing Highways To 4,000-Mile Statewide Corridor Plan
- The Texas Department of Transportation will consider incorporating existing highways into its proposed 4,000-mile Trans-Texas Corridor, TxDOT said in a recently released draft report.The department first would examine using current portions of highway for the Interstate-69/TTC project, which includes tolling and truck-only lanes, the agency said in a Nov. 13...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Solutions to the traffic snarl: better information—and the means to deliver it—underpin USDOT's efforts to ease congestion through operational and technological improvements
- Approximately half of all congestion can be traced to recurring causes such as physical bottlenecks. The other half stems from nonrecurring causes, such as crashes, work zones, and weather. In May 2006, the U.S. Department of Transportation's USDOT National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network (also known as...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- No plans yet to repave State Street this year.(News)
- Byline: Harry Hitzeman Daily Herald Staff Writer Frustrated Geneva city leaders Friday vowed to appeal a state decision not to repave a pothole-laden 0.6-mile stretch of East State Street until 2009 or later. City leaders said they had been given assurances that...
- Research articles 2007-04-21
- Reconstruction Project Wins Recognition.
- Staff Brewster, Wash.- The Federal Highway Administration and the Washington State Department of Transportation have chosen the Main Avenue Reconstruction project in Brewster to receive the "Director's Award" of their 2006 Awards of Excellence. The awards recognize the "best of the...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- WYOMING: Highway Projects
- CHEYENNE - Despite ucertain federal funding and unpredictable inflation, the Wyoming Department of Transportation has assembled a blueprint of proposed highway projects that would cost $238.9 million over the next year.Early this month, the agency released the tentative plan - called the 2007 Slate Transportation Improvement Program - for public...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- MAXIMUS Signs Fleet Management Software Contracts with Four States
- RESTON, Va. -- MAXIMUS (NYSE:MMS), a leading provider of government services - today announced that Indiana, Maine, Minnesota and Washington, have signed contracts to implement the Company's fleet management software, FleetFocusTM. Within the past twelve months, MAXIMUS has grown its transportation Enterprise Asset Management EAM software solutions customer list...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Responding to the Blackout: The New York City Department of Transportation's Great Challenge
- ON AUGUST 14, 2003, NEW YORK CITY, ALONG WITH A LARGE PORTION OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, EXPERIENCED A MASSIVE POWER FAILURE CAUSED BY AN OVERLOADED GRID IN OHIO. NYCDOT FACED THE DIFFICULT TASK OF ENSURING THAT TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPERATIONS AND COORDINATION PLANS WERE IN FULL WORKING ORDER FOR THE...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Citizen participation in rulemaking: past, present, and future.
- ABSTRACT Administrative law scholars and governmental reformers argue that advances in information technology will greatly expand public participation in regulatory policymaking. They claim that e-rulemaking, or the application of new technology to administrative rulemaking, promises to transform a previously insulated process into one...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Iteris Receives Order from Georgia Department of Transportation for Its Vantage™ Video Detection Systems
- ANAHEIM, Calif. -- -- State's Early Success with Video Detection Systems Result in Larger Deployment to Help Improve Traffic Flow and Reduce Driver Delays -- Iteris, Inc. (AMEX:ITI), a leader in the development of vision-based technology that optimizes traffic flow and enhances driver safety, today announced that the company...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- U.S. Department of Transportation makes emergency funds available for streetcars, streamlines Federal transit funding for New Orleans.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 December 2005-US DOT: U.S. Department of Transportation makes emergency funds available for streetcars, streamlines Federal transit funding for New OrleansC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16122005 U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today gave New Orleans transit officials the go-ahead...
- Research articles 2005-12-19
- On the road to Environmental Excellence
- FHWA honors the 2005 award-winning transportation projects and the people who protect or enhance natural and community resources. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An increasing number of transportation projects are yielding innovative approaches that not only improve highway safety but also protect or enhance the natural and cultural environments. The scale...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary Maria Cino highlights employment and contracting opportunities for Hispanic-Americans at the Department of Transportation.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 September 2005-US DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION: U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary Maria Cino highlights employment and contracting opportunities for Hispanic-Americans at the Department of TransportationC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14092005 U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary Maria Cino met with national Hispanic-American leaders...
- Research articles 2005-09-15
- I-66 in Virginia to Close for Road Work
- Officials at the Virginia Department of Transportation said the agency would shut down portions of Interstate 66 between exits 43 and 47 in Prince William County overnight for up to 60 days, starting Aug. 21 or Aug. 29.Once crews finish paving the lanes eastbound from exit 43 - which VDOT...
- Research articles 2005-08-15
- California Department of Transportation
- The California Department of Transportation is using recycled rubber tires as part of a $40 million project to rebuild the freeway between Auburn and Colfax, CA, in Placer County. Officials say about 1,000 recycled tires are being used per mile of lane, and the material has been shown to reduce...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Peters to Step Down at FHWA; Capka Named Interim Chief
- Mary Peters is to step down as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the end of July, the Department of Transportation announced last week.DOT said that J. Richard Capka, FHWA's deputy administrator, would take over for Peters as acting administrator at that time.Peters told Transportation secretary Norman Mineta of...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- House Panel Report Would Direct DOT To Resume Gathering Carrier Data
- In a report accompanying the Department of Transportation fiscal 2006 funding bill, the House Appropriations Committee directed the department to resume collecting annual motor carrier data "immediately.""Collection of [this] data is important because it provides safety-related information on motor carriers and is widely used by the industry," the committees June...
- Research articles 2005-07-04
- One way to a better road: to save time and money, a growing Georgia community in the metropolitan Atlanta area reclaims busy roadways using foamed asphalt base stabilization
- Today's highway engineers and professionals are called upon to champion innovations that are technically sound, economically feasible, and fundamentally safe. In an editorial in the May/June 2004 issue of PUBLIC ROADS, Federal Highway Administrator Mary E. Peters encouraged the transportation industry to act on this challenge: "Moving away from simply...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- FAA Proposes to amend airman medical certification standards.
- The Federal Aviation Administration FAA announced it will take comments until March 14 on its proposal to amend the airman medical certification standards to disqualify an airman based on an alcohol test result of 0.04 or greater breath alcohol concentration BAC. Disqualification also would...
- Research articles 2005-01-06
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