As part of enhancements to the TDOT I-24 Smart Corridor Project, Murfreesboro's Traffic Signal System will ...
Demolition Begins in Preparation for Widening of Major Elizabethton Street | WCYB
A TDOT spokesperson said the intersection between Roan Street and Elk Avenue will be reconfigured. Bids for the project will be let out this summer.
Cost of Deferred Maintenance for U.S. Infrastructure Tops $1 Trillion, New Report Finds | Transportation Today
The report entitled, “America’s Trillion-Dollar Repair Bill: Capital Budgeting and the Disclosure of State Infrastructure Needs,” unveiled on Nov. 20, outlines how state and local governments do not fully disclose the costs of deferred maintenance to their infrastructure. “States say their budgets are balanced but too frequently, they fail to account properly for the immense cost of infrastructure maintenance that has been deferred,” said William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance senior vice president and director of state and local initiatives. “You cannot make a truly balanced budget if you do not know what your costs are. Taxpayers deserve to know how much it will cost to repair our deteriorating infrastructure.” According to the report, only four states disclose the cost of deferred maintenance for unfunded capital projects in their state documents. In Tennessee, New Jersey, Michigan and the District of Columbia, researchers found federal reports that showed the deferred maintenance gap, said Camila Fonseca-Sarmiento, one of the paper’s authors. In three other states, Hawaii, Kentucky and Washington, university research outlined the costs of deferred maintenance.
Nashville Engineer District Holds Fall Navigational Meeting | Waterways Journal
Nashville Engineer District Holds Fall Navigational Meeting | Waterways Journal
Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Tennessee Valley Authority and a contractor with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet were all on hand to discuss upcoming projects. Don Getty, project manager for the Corps’ Nashville district, talked about projects at Chickamauga and Kentucky locks. In an update on the Chickamauga Lock replacement project, Getty said, “Chickamauga looks in great shape as far as finishing this contract and finishing this project. It looks in better shape than Kentucky (Lock) right now.”
Memphis International Airport to Get $6 Million Grant for Infrastructure | LocalMemphis.com
(FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION) – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $8 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Tennessee. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017. “The robust economy is enabling more passengers to travel by air so this Administration is investing billions of dollars in America’s airports which will address safer airport operations, fewer airport delays, and greater ease of travel for air travelers,”...
Memphis International Airport to Get $6 Million Grant for Infrastructure | LocalMemphis.com
(FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION) – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $8 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Tennessee. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017. “The robust economy is enabling more passengers to travel by air so this Administration is investing billions of dollars in America’s airports which will address safer airport operations, fewer airport delays, and greater ease of travel for air travelers,”...
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In the Impending Cyberwar, Engineers Must Be on the Front Lines | ASCE News
Senior engineers in major infrastructure organizations – city governments, state departments of transportation, water and energy infrastructure firms – pack more cyber capability into their systems on a regular basis in search of greater efficiency and lower costs, without paying more than occasional lip service to the security of their systems. Thus, for example, in spite of all the public discussion regarding the need for cybersecurity, in March 2018 Atlanta was shut down by a ransomware attack, as was Baltimore last May – and these were relatively unsophisticated attacks. Imagine how much damage a state-scale cyber-attacker, with state-of-the-art AI, could do. Imagine how compromised their existing systems already are. The most important thing to recognize is that our infrastructure isn’t just old and worn out, it is a massive weapon in the hands of adversaries of the democratic West. On top of that, neither the formal engineering educational process nor the engineering professional organizations, have risen to the challenge of cyberwarfare and civilizational conflict. This challenge is not looming; it is here and has been here for long enough for the security dimension of our infrastructure to be thoroughly compromised.
Report: States Ramp Up Capital Spending | ASCE SmartBrief
State expenditures on capital projects rose 7.7% in fiscal 2019, the third-biggest percentage gain in two decades, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. The $113.9 billion total included a major focus on transportation, which saw a 9.3% increase to $73.1 billion. Engineering News-Record
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