Tag: highways

July 9, 2024

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has begun to take applications from states, localities and other entities for up to $607 million in grants for projects aimed at relinking neighborhoods cut off by past highways and other infrastructure from jobs, schools, […]

June 4, 2024

Resilience — essentially risk management — is an increasingly critical consideration for road builders. Climate change is impacting roads in surprising ways, and contractors and engineers need to be prepared for extreme weather, sea level rise and hotter temperatures, said […]

October 12, 2023

Roadside work zones pose extreme risk for the laborers who build and maintain our highways, roads, bridges, tunnels and utilities. That’s why highway maintenance jobs are among the most dangerous in the U.S. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, […]

August 22, 2022

The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains highway-related provisions that aim to give a boost to infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communities and for the use of low-carbon construction materials on federal highway projects. The larger of the two provisions provides […]

July 29, 2022

States have received another injection of highway funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act —the first installment of $7.3 billion from a new IIJA program aimed at projects that strengthen highways, bridges, transit and port infrastructure against the threatening […]

August 10, 2021

This project is part of Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE), a National Science Foundation-funded research and development initiative to accelerate sustainable and equitable transportation electrification. Purdue’s Pekarek says being part of this type of consortium is […]