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Federal Shutdown

Two State DOTs Delay Highway Bid Lettings, Citing Federal Funding Issues

Tom Ichniowski

January 17, 2019

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Thanks to Trust Fund, highway dollars are available, but a stopgap CR could put newly committed obligations at risk.

Federal Spending

Shutdown Affects Some, But Not All, Infrastructure Programs

Tom Ichniowski

January 3, 2019

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UPDATE: House, now under Democrats' control, passes bills to end shutdown, but White House issues veto threat.

The American Infrastructure

Study Calls for Major Program to Rebuild Interstate Highway System

Report recommends boost in federal motor-fuels tax

Tom Ichniowski

December 6, 2018

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National Academies' report proposes hiking federal and state capital spending by $20 billion to $45 billion per year.

Associations

ARTBA's Ruane to Retire in Oct. after 30 Years as CEO

Tom Ichniowski

June 20, 2018

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In interview, Ruane says search committee will look at internal and external candidates to succeed him.

Highway Infrastructure

US DOT Revamps, Delays FAST Act Grants

Awards for most FY 2017 'INFRA' grants pushed into 2018

Tom Ichniowski

July 12, 2017

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The U.S. Dept. of Transportation is revising a $4.5-billion grant program for highway and other freight-related projects.

Civil Infrastructure Design Gets Boost From Bentley and Topcon

Tom Sawyer

Janice L. Tuchman

November 16, 2016

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The rise of cloud services, vendor partnerships and software refinement is supporting increasing multi-vendor interoperability of project data for the design, construction and management of roads and bridges.

Engineering Software

Bentley Consolidates Road Design Suite as Part of a Broad Lift to Connected Cloud

Move is part of a transition to enabling wide data exchange via Microsoft Azure servers

Janice L. Tuchman

Tom Sawyer

November 2, 2016

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Bentley Systems announces ‘Open Roads’ to consolidate civil brands and also describes its intent to link its cloud services platform with that of Topcon's and others for seamless data exchange