Calif. bullet train route will be engineering feat
A bullet train linking Northern and Southern California will be an audacious engineering feat because the line must cross two mountain ranges and a half-dozen earthquake faults, experts said Read more...
View ArticleEngineers study how to improve high-speed rail ties against freezing
The university’s Kyle Riding, assistant professor of civil engineering, is leading a three-year study that looks at the freeze-thaw durability of concrete railroad ties. The research is essential to...
View ArticleTyne Tunnels win major civil engineering award
The New Tyne Crossing, consisting of the two Tyne tunnels which link North and South Tyneside, has taken the top civil engineering award at the British Construction Industry Awards in London. The...
View ArticleBullet-train planners face huge engineering challenge
The 141-mile section from Bakersfield to L.A. will travel over two mountain ranges and more than half a dozen earthquake faults. Experts see it as the project of the century. Read more at latimes.com....
View ArticleHurricane Exposed Flaws in Protection of Tunnels
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck, the vital arteries that bring cars, trucks and subways into New York City’s transportation network have recovered, with one major exception: the...
View ArticleNYC Subway-Station-Turned-Fish-Tank Poses $600 Million Dilemma
In March 2009, Elliot Sander stood in Lower Manhattan outside South Ferry, New York’s newest subway station. Addressing a crowd, the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hailed it as the...
View ArticleCellphone, GPS data suggest new strategy for alleviating traffic tie-ups
Asking all commuters to cut back on rush-hour driving reduces traffic congestion somewhat, but asking specific groups of drivers to stay off the road may work even better. The conclusion comes from a...
View ArticleUI transportation researchers focus on safety
The University of Idaho’s transportation institute is where research quite literally meets the road. Since it was founded 20 years ago, the National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology has...
View ArticleCaltrans agrees to greater public scrutiny of expert panels
After months of publicly defending the work and secretive process of a panel investigating the testing and safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the California Department of...
View ArticleMoney-Making, Congestion-Reducing Express Lanes Spread On California Freeways
Northbound drivers traveling on the undulating Interstate 110 Freeway through South Central Los Angeles usually hit the brakes as they roll into a basin before downtown. Like race cars awaiting the...
View ArticlePanama Canal: New Locks for Its Anniversary
State-of-the-Art Lock Technology Using Rexroth Hydraulics Reduces Fresh Water Consumption For its 100-year anniversary in 2014, the Panama Canal Authority is modernizing and expanding the canal between...
View ArticleTransportation research finds roundabouts are the way to go for drivers of...
Designers of highways and byways are taking those aging driver demographics into account when planning for the future of transportation in the U.S. That includes research by University of Maine civil...
View ArticleWith more total driver’s licenses, women passing men on the roads
The jokes about dreadful female drivers can officially take a back seat. For the first time ever, more women than men have driver’s licenses nationwide. This gender gap reversal means safer roads and...
View ArticleRPI tackles urban truck traffic
If you’ve ever been exasperated trying to drive through city streets clogged with delivery trucks, you’ll be happy to know that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is working to solve that problem. RPI,...
View ArticleStatistical Technique Identifies All Possible Causes of Severity in a Traffic...
University of Granada researchers have developed a new statistical technique that enables an exhaustive analysis of all possible causes that increase the severity of a traffic accident. The research,...
View ArticleWayne State University Seeks Impact of Differential Speed Limits
Years of research have produced mixed views on whether different freeway speed limits for cars and trucks make roads safer, but Wayne State University researchers are taking a comprehensive approach to...
View ArticleHow smart technology could change public transit
Chow is studying ways to make Canada’s aging transportation systems “smarter.” That is done in two ways. First, designing the systems to respond to people’s actual behaviour in terms of when, where and...
View ArticleBlue Planet Prize awarded to UC Davis transportation expert Dan Sperling
Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis is one of two recipients of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize. The prize, announced Tuesday by the Asahi Glass Foundation of...
View ArticleCrossing drug cartel territory from Pacific to Gulf, highway carves a path to...
avender-blue peaks of the western Sierra Madre jut as far as the eye can see, the only hints of civilization: a tendril of smoke from burning corn residue, a squiggle of dirt road. Then out of nowhere,...
View ArticleNew truck routing approach could save millions, improve driver satisfaction
Engineers at Oregon State University are studying a new approach to organize and route truck transportation that could save millions of dollars, improve the quality of life for truck drivers and make...
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