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New Report Spotlights Dangers of Drowsy Driving (GHSA - Governors Highway Safety Association)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), Wake Up Call! Understanding Drowsy Driving and What States Can Do, points out that nearly 83.6 million sleep-deprived Americans are driving every day ... The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) is a nonprofit association representing the highway safety offices of states, territories, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico....

National Highway Safety Leaders Meet in Seattle to Address Technology and Driver Behavior (GHSA - Governors Highway Safety Association)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
More than 500 state highway safety ... Chris Mullen, Director of Technological Research at State Farm, and Anne Ferro, President & CEO of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, will discuss these technologies from the perspective of insurance and state driver licensing professionals, focusing on the evolving role of the driver....

TxDOT Plans For $70 Billion To Fund Transportation Projects (Texas Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
AUSTIN - The Texas Transportation Commission today approved the 2017 Unified Transportation Program (UTP) with $70 billion worth of projects to help TxDOT meet the state's growing transportation demands ... Ending the practice of appropriating state highway funds to agencies other than TxDOT and the passage of long-term federal transportation legislation also contributed to the additional funding....

“Ministry of Defence & OFB will ensure a level playing field for the private sector” – Manohar Parrikar (CII - Confederation of Indian Industry)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
CII - Confederation of Indian Industry). The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), organised a Seminar & Exhibition on OFB-Industry Partnership for Vendor Development and Outsourcing by OFs on 24& 25 of August 2016 at New Delhi ... The Seminar was spread over two days with second day, 25 August 2016 being reserved for industry interactions with the officials of various OFs....

Fire and ice hinder travel into Yellowstone National Park

Edit The Oklahoman 25 Aug 2016
Montana Department of Transportation officials say crews are working to re-open the highway Thursday. The closure is from the Montana-Wyoming state line to Wyoming Highway 296....

Bus hits bridge, sidewall collapses

Edit The Times of India 25 Aug 2016
Police officials said that a bus, on its way to Ratnagiri hit the Shivaji bridge on Tuesday afternoon damaging a part of it ... The officials later informed the locals, district collectorate, Maharashtra state road transport corporation (MSRTC) and regional transport authority that only the sidewall of the 139-year-old bridge was damaged and the basic structure remains intact....

Southbound Highway 101 Connector to Highway 33: Overnight Closures Scheduled for Maintenance Project (PDF) (California Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
California Department of Transportation). State of California • Department of Transportation ... VENTURA -- The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) plans overnight closures of the connector from southbound U.S. Highway 101 to northbound State Highway 33 in Ventura on four nights this week and next week ... California Department of ......

Metroplan staff, advisers at odds on 6-lane waiver

Edit Arkansas Online 25 Aug 2016
Advisers to central Arkansas' transportation planning agency recommended Wednesday that it not waive a policy limiting the width of area freeways, while the agency's staff recommended that it should grant the exception ... A board vote against the waiver would jeopardize the project for which the Highway Department has identified $630.7 million in state and federal money....

Kamehameha Highway to be closed for two hours for utility pole repairs

Edit Star Advertiser 25 Aug 2016
The Department of Transportation will close Kamehameha Highway again near Waimea tonight to allow Hawaiian Telcom crews to complete repairs after a truck crashed into three utility poles Tuesday. Both lanes of the highway will be open until 8 p.m ... to midnight, and then contra-flowed from midnight to 3 a.m., the state Transportation Department said....

Gadkari is Goa poll in-charge

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Aug 2016
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has been appointed in-charge of the BJP’s election work in Goa ... Interestingly, Parrikar was keen to return to the state scene to ensure the BJP’s victory, but was overruled by both the Prime Minister and the RSS brass, the officials said ... What has added to the worries of the BJP is ......

Seagrass in Everglades National Park is dying. Here's what's being done to save it.

Edit CNN 25 Aug 2016
As part of a years-long project coordinated by federal and state agencies, officials are working to raise sections of the Tamiami Trail to allow water to flow ... to raise another 2.5 miles of the highway as part of a project funded in part by the US Department of Transportation Federal Lands Highway Program and Florida's Department of Transportation....

Full Closure of On- and Off-Ramps on Highway 101 in Ventura County (PDF) (California Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
California Department of Transportation). State of California • Department of Transportation ... Full Closure of On- and Off-Ramps at La Conchita and Mussel Shoals on Highway 101 in Ventura County ... VENTURA - The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) plans to close U.S ... The closures are necessary as part of a $3.6 million pavement rehabilitation project on a three- mile section of Highway 101....

Bognor Regis venue added to A27 consultation event schedule (West Sussex County Council)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
Bognor Regis will now host a public event as part of Highways England's schedule of consultation events on improvements to the A27 at Chichester ... County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, John O'Brien, said ... County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, John O'Brien will consider the committee's recommendations before he approves the official response to Highways England....
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