National News
- USDOT Announces BUILD Program to Replace TIGER
On April 20, DOT published a notice of funding opportunity for $1.5 billion through…
April 23, 2018 | Transport Topics - FHWA makes advanced transportation technologies grants available
Created in the FAST Act, the ATCMTD program works to improve the performance of…
April 19, 2018 | Roads & Bridges - FHWA announces emergency relief funding for road and bridge repairs nationwide
More than $1 billion in Emergency Relief funds to help…
April 16, 2018 | Roads & Bridges - Appropriators Press DOT’s Chao to Fund Transit Projects
Both parties are urging DOT Secretary Elaine Chao to move the funds rapidly to…
April 16, 2018 | ENR - How Autonomous Vehicles Might Reshape Our Cities
Parking lots for autonomous vehicles could be designed more like solid grids that…
April 13, 2018 | FORBES - Fed. Agencies Set Two-Year Goal for Infrastructure Project Reviews
The Trump administration has approved a plan to speed up federal environmental reviews for…
April 9, 2018 | ENR - Uber buys a bikeshare company as it looks beyond cars
The company said it bought Jump Bikes…
April 9, 2018 | CNN tech - Trump-era transportation project more focused on rural areas
That means more road and rail projects in…
April 8, 2018 | Chron - Arizona governor, Uber kept self-driving car program secret: report
The company first began testing self-driving cars in Phoenix in August 2016 without…
March 28, 2018 | THE HILL - Former Uber Backup Driver: ‘We Saw This Coming’
One failure involves the machine itself…
March 27, 2018 | City Lab - Study Finds Rampant Distracted Driving
12 percent of drivers were characterized as mobile-phone addicts…
March 26, 2018 | PLANETIZEN - House Passes Omnibus FY 18 Measure, Boosts Infrastructure by $21B
The omnibus measure draws on a recent bipartisan budget deal that….
March 21, 2018 | ENR - Snyder: To fix roads, we must hike federal gas tax
The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents has not been increased since 1993….
March 20, 2018 | Detroit Free Press - TIGER blowback not seen from bridge tragedy in Florida
Transit officials meeting here this week said they don’t think the tragic collapse of…
March 20, 2018 | The Bond Buyer - Road user charging pilot project is launched in Washington state
The results of this year-long trial will help shape Washington state’s…
March 20, 2018 | Traffic Technology - An Uber robot car kills a pedestrian in Arizona. Will it slow driverless tests?
A woman was struck by an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode…
March 19, 2018 | Los Angeles Times - Coalition presses Transportation Dept. for stricter oversight of driverless cars
In a letter signed by more than 25 organizations…
March 19, 2018 | The Hill - Trump administration cites augmented reality, satellite broadband as ‘transformative’ infrastructure projects
The Trump administration wants to spend $20 billion on a range of…
March 14, 2018 | The Washington Post - Trump to Promote Public Works Plan as Lawmakers Seek Funding
The president plans to travel around the country to promote his proposal…
March 14, 2018 | Bloomberg - Chao Says All Options on Table to Fund Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
The administration wants to work with Congress to find bipartisan solutions…
March 6, 2018 | Bloomberg
State News
- Gas prices are at a four-year high in Bradenton and across Florida. So what’s going on?
Florida’s state average surpassed last year’s high of $2.73 on…
April 23, 2018 | Bradenton Herald - Coastal Alabama officials want transportation future planned in Alabama, not Florida
Leaders want to see a new coastal planning organization…
April 18, 2018 | AL.com - A public-private partnership shapes the fate of two communities differently
Less than a mile away, however, and also a short drive from the highway, the town of Eatonville sees…
April 16, 2018 | MARKETPLACE - Florida DOT plans $2.3B, 40-mile Interstate 4 ‘signature’ corridor
An initiative that will connect to the western and eastern ends of the…
April 12, 2018 | CONSTRUCTION DIVE - Engineers racing to design new bridge for aging State Road 405 near Kennedy Space Center
The aging bridge serves as a critical corridor linking the mainland with…
April 12, 2018 | florida today - Everything we know about Florida DOT’s $2.3 billion plan to fix traffic in the tourist district
The “Beyond the Ultimate” project will take the toll lane-focused rebuild of I-4…
April 10, 2018 | Orlando Weekly - Tolled express lanes coming to several parts of Jacksonville
The FDOT wants to add tolled express lanes on I-95 between the JTB and…
April 4, 2018 | ABC NEWS - Pinellas man proposes magnetic levitation transit system
“We estimate we can take about a third of the cars off the road,”…
April 4, 2018 | FOX 13 - Texting only one distraction behind the wheel
Dangerous distractions behind the wheel include anything that takes your eyes off…
April 3, 2018 | WEARTV - Florida law allows driverless vehicles. Does the law go too far?
The Florida Justice Association, a trial lawyer advocacy group, and others oppose…
April 2, 2018 | Tampa Bay Times - Drive to Save Lives Tour seeks to stop tragedies
Could this prefrontal cortex development delay explain why teens…
March 27, 2018 | Tallahassee Democrat - Lake County to add fuel tax to November ballot
5 cents would be added to every gallon of gas pumped…
March 27, 2018 | NEWS 13 - Hush Falls Over Brightline, Absentees Boosted Petrolia
Brightline notified the Palm Beach TPA this week that the company expects to…
March 22, 2018 | boca - Reversible lanes may be quick, cheap fix as Smart plan stalls
Reversible lanes can move traffic in either direction…
March 20, 2018 | Miami Today - Gov. Scott approves $1 million for Tampa Bay transit
The $1 million allows TBARTA officials develop a business strategy to…
March 19, 2018 | Tampa Bay Business Journal - On the Road: seniors more prone to traffic fatalities in Florida, new study says
Florida now leads the country in the number traffic fatalities involving at least one driver over 65…
March 14, 2018 | jacksonville.com - Volusia wants the trains to run on time . . . and time is running out
Unless dramatic changes come about, Volusia County may be…
March 14, 2018 | The West Volusia Beacon - JTA receives a $16.9 Million grant for BRT project
The funds will be used for the First Coast Flyer Bus Rapid Transit East Corridor…
March 8, 2018 | Metro Jacksonville - Pedestrian deaths rise in Central Florida, nation
Pedestrian deaths have shot up in Central Florida and the United States after …
March 4, 2018 | Orlando Sentinel - Pedestrians continue to die at an alarming rate in Florida, new report shows
Preliminary numbers shows 600 pedestrian deaths in 2017, nearly exactly the same rate as…
March 1, 2018 | ABC
