Road & Rail
Devastating wildfires tore through the hills surrounding Los Angeles in January, leaving emergency responders to navigate a maze of smoke, debris, and melted street signs. Familiar roads and landmarks were rendered unrecognizable. Like other densely...
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This article is the first in our new Engineering Wonders of The World series. The world’s highest railway bridge is in a rugged, mountainous area of northern India – and it is a sight to behold. Hovering 1,170 feet above...
As a civil engineer with the Colorado Department of Transportation, John Kronholm keeps his ear close to ground. Or nature, to be precise. Kronholm is the resident engineer for Eagle and Lake counties, stationed high in the Colorado mountains in...
American infrastructure has been the envy of the world. Works such as the Erie Canal, the New York City Subway and the Interstate Highway System transformed the shape of the land, the economy and the way hundreds of millions of...
I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
Commuting is a fact of life for many metropolitan areas, but very few accommodate anywhere near the 1 million commuters that crowd into Manhattan each day. To maneuver around highways, waterways, and other potential obstructions, New York City’s commuters...
William “Bill” Panos began his career in aerospace technology. He never envisioned that his resume would one day include serving as director and chief executive officer of a state Department of Transportation in not just one, but two states. He...
The roads and highways sector is at a critical juncture. Funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is starting to flow through to projects. However, there simply are not enough skilled workers available for the projects already in...
For this midwestern city located in Iowa, it all started with a need for accessibility. Sven Peterson, city administrator for Perry, wanted to make sure his rural town of 7,929 people met Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements so that...