Airport authority will expand key international terminal, projecting rise in overseas travelers, particularly to and from Europe. The Israel Airports Authority has issued an international tender for a fourth concourse at the country’s main international airport in order to accommodate growing passenger traffic.The cost of the new addition at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, is estimated at $190 million. IAA expects to decide on the winning bidder by mid-2014. The timetable calls for completion of the project at Terminal 3, the airport's main international hub, within three years.The terminal, which opened in 2004, was designed by Skidmore,
Courtesy WSDOT Operators monitor progress from Bertha's control room. Courtesy WSDOT Largest TBM in North America, measuring 57.5 ft in dia, is temporarily stuck along its 1.7-mile underground course. Related Links: Big Tunneler Headed For New State Route 99 Site People Dig Tunnel Boring Machines That Tweet Joint-venture contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners needs divers to enter the chamber behind a tunnel-boring machine’s cutting head to investigate what possibly slowed—and subsequently forced a shutdown of—North America’s largest TBM, nicknamed "Bertha." The 57.5-ft-dia TBM is attempting to bore a 1.7-mile Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement under downtown Seattle. On Friday, Dec. 6, Bertha, which
Related Links: LA Commuter Rail Line To Roll Out First Positive Train Control System In U.S. Service To Be Restored To Hudson Line On Wednesday Rail infrastructure damage appears to be a result—not a cause—of the Dec. 1 commuter train derailment that killed four and injured many more.Just days before the first four of seven Metro-North Railroad railcars went off the tracks on a curve by the Hudson River, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had announced a contract with a joint venture of Siemens Rail Automation and Bombardier Transportation Rail Control Solutions to implement positive train control (PTC) that might have
Related Links: Calif. High-Speed Rail Moves Forward, Slowly California Selects PCM for First High-Speed Rail Section Opponents of California’s high-speed rail project have managed to stop the state from selling at least $8 billion in bonds to fund the initial construction phase after a California Superior judge made several rulings in their favor Nov. 25, but the High-Speed Rail Authority remains confident that the project will eventually be completed.“The Authority intends to comply with the rulings as directed. No one said this would be easy. [As with] all transformative projects, we knew there would be challenges. But the bottom line
Related Links: Green Bay Span Shored Up as WisDOT Seeks Long-Term Fix Engineers Puzzle Over Cause, Fixes for Sagging Wisconsin Bridge Repairs on the sagging Leo Frigo Bridge on Interstate 43 in Green Bay, Wis., are expected to be completed in mid-January after workers add 20 drilled shafts at the bases of five piers.Zenith Tech of Waukesha, Wis., won the $7.7-million repair contract and will run two crews on 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, until the work is completed, according to the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation. Work started in mid-November.The 20- to 24-person crews will add 60-in. concrete shafts
Photo courtesy of ARTBA Automotive manufacturing insiders told TransOvation attendees that smart vehicles will be on the road within the next decade. Related Links: Intelligent Vehicles, Tools and Collaboration Hot Topics At Transportation Meeting http://enr.construction.com/infrastructure/transportation/2013/0128-intelligent-vehicles-tools-and-collaboration-hot-topics-at-meeting.asp Thought leaders in transportation and technology are pondering how to prepare "dumb" U.S. infrastructure for the addition of "smart" automated and automation-assisted vehicles. Cars that can drive themselves and "talk" to other cars may bring big potential benefits in terms of capacity and safety but equally big risks in cyber-security and legal issues.Citing the example of how smart phones have caused a sea change in
Related Links: Virginia Takes Steps To Propel Two Transportation Projects Proposed Tolls On Existing Road Ignite Lawsuit Public-private partnerships in U.S. transportation got a big legal "treat" on Oct. 31, when the Virginia Supreme Court overruled a lower court's decision against the state's P3 legislation.In May, the Portsmouth circuit court ruled in favor of Danny Meeks, et al, which challenged the Virginia Dept. of Transportation's (VDOT) right to use tolls to fund a $2.1-billion project that would build a new tube parallel to the 50-year-old, 4,300-ft-long Midtown Tunnel. The court ruled that allowing VDOT to set toll rates on the
Related Links: N.Y. Governor's Office Press Release on TIFIA Loan Approval New Tappan Zee Bridge Work Begins DOT Moves To Streamline TIFIA Loan Decisions The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has approved a $1.6-billion loan for the replacement of New York's Tappan Zee Bridge. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) made the announcement Oct. 31, calling it "the largest loan the U.S. Dept. of Transportation has ever made for any project like this."The loan was made through the DOT's Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program. Established in 1998, TIFIA has ramped up its lending recently, spurred by last year's
Malaysia plans to spend $50 billion over the next seven years on the development of a network to include both urban rapid transit and high-speed rail, and global construction firms are ready to help. A 150-kilometer urban mass rapid-transit system is already under construction, with a slated 2017 opening. A high-speed-rail system linking Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, planned for a 2020 launch, will go out to bid in late 2014. “We expect this to be a very transparent, open bidding system in which companies from all over the world are free to participate,” stated Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in
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