For people living near a heavily trafficked highway, the issue of noise can be a concern . . . and it’s a concern shared by agencies and industry, too. Busy highways near residential...
In the past half-century, innovations in architectural and structural bridge design and construction have produced some of the world’s most spectacular man-made structures. Segmental...
As good luck would have it In Walsh Construction Co. of Illinois v. City of Detroit, 257 F. Supp. 2d 935, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5704 (E.D. Mich.), a federal court considered whether...
A national freight policy is sorely needed to address our country’s No. 1 transportation issue: our overburdened highway system. Congress has an opportunity to establish a national...
With a presidential election coming this fall and a massive six-year surface transportation bill moving through Congress, Washington, D.C., is humming with activity. There is...
One of the most important means of providing safe guidance to motorists on our nation’s highways is through traffic markings. All department of transportation (DOT) agencies in...
A new bridge deck in Maryland’s scenic horse country is a sign of big changes coming to the state’s bridges. The Cold Bottom Road overpass, which crosses I-83 some 10 miles north...
Doing it the hard way They don’t care about Klondike Bars in Montana. The question there is, “What would you do for a 2002 Limited Edition Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster?” Sally...
When Al Qaeda is in hiding, its yellow streak becomes an escalating threat. Highlighted in training manuals everywhere are the goals and missions of the terrorist group, and one...
What happened in the highway/bridge industry in 1939 . . . Through the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration expended 38.3% of all of its funds on roads, streets and highways...
A group of Peoria middle school students were getting a taste of something new in the engineering and information technology fields on a Saturday in late January. Pizza didn’...
North Carolina has been known as “The Good Roads State” since the 1920s, when legislators approved a statewide program to connect all county seats with hard-surfaced roadways...
We should have left the word “Big” in the year 1988. Tom Hanks certainly knew how to treat it. The word was funny, innocent and charming. But Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project...
Florida’s Everglades National Park is the largest designated wilderness in the southeast U.S. and the only subtropical preserve on the North American continent, comprising 1.5...