President Obama’s proposed budget for FY 2015 recommends $100 each for Maryland Transit Administration light-rail projects in Baltimore and suburban DC.
Michigan is the latest state to enact regulations governing autonomous vehicles (AVs), joining California, Nevada, and Florida in codifying the use of advanced technologies that proponents say could vastly improve the safety and efficiency of the U.S. highway system.
What seems to be a perpetually tenuous highway lifeline to Hatteras Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks has frayed once again with the discovery of excess scour around underwater pilings supporting the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet.
A new engineering study to replace the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Tunnel could address one of the Northeast Corridor's biggest obstacles to high-speed rail.
Publicly financed or P3? Rail or maglev? There's no shortage of alternatives for the Virginia Beach City Council to consider, but waiting may not be one of them.
It may be a good while before autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles arrive en masse on US motorways. But the questions surrounding their potential effects on transportation are already here.
Faced with the near-certainty of spending millions on storm-related road repair work on Outer Banks for the foreseeable future, the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation hopes to put some of their troubles behind them by elevating a particularly vulnerable section of a key coastal highway.
Though the traditional “season of giving” is still a few months away, metropolitan Baltimore was nevertheless the early recipient of a $1.5 billion package of transportation funding.
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Thanks for sharing, Jim.
The Silver Line (and the whole WMATA system, for that matter) is not light rail. I'd call it heavy rail.
The pipes that are failing were manufactured under a standard that was increasingly lax from around 1950 until 1984. For example later revisions to the specifications effectively remove...