Transportation officials from Rhode Island, Maryland and Idaho were among the applicants seeking federal grants to help pay for improvements to critical freight corridors in their states.
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Opinion: The Hidden Cost of Extended Idling
You don’t have to be a diesel mechanic to know that extended idling is bad for business. Frequent or prolonged idling increases emissions, wastes fuel and puts unnecessary wear on your engine. That’s why, due in large part to increasingly strict emissions standards, the trucking industry has seen a dramatic increase in idle-reduction technologies.
January 9, 2017Editorial: Welcome to TRB
Twelve thousand people from around the world are so devoted to transportation, in all of its many forms, that they are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to participate in the 96th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
January 9, 2017Smart Windshields Seen as the New Ad Billboards
The next frontier in digital advertising may be your car’s windshield.
January 6, 2017Oklahoma Transportation Department Presents Budget Needs to State Lawmakers
Lawmakers in the Oklahoma House of Representatives on Jan. 5 sat through a second day of in-depth budget hearings that give agency heads a chance to ask for more money.
January 6, 2017Service Industries Expand at Faster Pace Than Forecast
America’s service providers expanded more than forecast last month, spurred by an upturn in orders that coincided with stepped-up demand at the nation’s factories.
January 5, 2017Consumer Comfort Gauge in 2016 Was Strongest in Nine Years
American households were more upbeat last year on average than at any time since 2007, according to figures in the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index released Jan. 5.
January 5, 2017Senate Commerce Committee to Consider Chao Nomination as Transportation Secretary
Watch a replay as the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee conducted a confirmation hearing Jan. 11 to consider the nomination of Elaine Chao as transportation secretary.
January 11, 2017Montana Towns Band Together for Big Infrastructure Lobbying Push
When serious structural problems were discovered on two interchange bridges for interstates 15-90 in Butte, Montana state transportation officials scrambled to reroute semis and get immediate repair work under way.
January 5, 2017Creative Highway Signs Get the Message Across to Rhode Island Drivers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — New England motorists have become familiar with idiosyncratic highway safety messages ever since Massachusetts began urging them to "Use Yah Blinkah" two years ago. But the new Rhode Island billboards had some Rhode Islanders scratching their heads, in some cases as a matter of taste and others out of genuine confusion.
January 5, 2017