TECH TALK!Brown Bag Lunch Session Smart Cities and Transportation Kenneth M. Leonard, Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), will share the lessons learned so far from the Smart City Challenge. In December 2015, the USDOT launched the Smart City Challenge, asking mid-sized cities across America […]
The New Jersey Work Zone Safety Conference promotes work zone safety awareness on local and state roadways specifically for a multi-disciplinary audience of construction, engineering, and maintenance and operations personnel, and public safety professionals. There will be a panel discussion that will cover cone crew operations and a presentation addressing the NJDOT 295/I-76/Route 42 Interchange […]
Dr. Nenad Gucunski will discuss the RABIT™ bridge deck assessment tool. The RABIT™ is the first fully automated device that simultaneously gathers quantitative data using several nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies and melds this data into a comprehensive diagnostic representation of concrete bridge deck condition. Benefits gained through use of this technology include: 1) quantitative condition […]
Dr. Daniel Sperling is a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). He holds the transportation seat on the California Air Resources Board and served as Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies […]
NJ TransAction 2018 will feature more than 70 workshop sessions (5-6 concurrent throughout each day) specializing in bus, rail, roads, bridges, goods movement. pedestrian/bicycle, paratransit, community transportation, ports and much more. This year nearly 1000 transportation management, directors, planners, engineers, grant writers, operators, elected officials, municipal, county and state representatives, consultants and administrators are expected […]
Save the date! American Council of Engineering Companies New Jersey (ACEC) will hold its 2018 Design Summit. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. For more information: http://www.acecnj.org/design_summit.php
New Jersey's Build a Better Mousetrap Competition provides a great opportunity to share those new ideas with others! People involved in the transportation industry often find better ways to do their jobs. Whether it’s a new gadget that improves the quality and safety of a project, or an innovative process that reduces costs and improves […]
Join DBIA Liberty Northeast and WTS-GNY at the Delivering a New New York Symposium. The event will bring the design-build industry together to talk about its impact on New York City. New York’s public owners have taken their limited design-build authority and made it the centerpiece of an impressive transportation infrastructure renaissance. Some of New […]
The sixth in an ongoing “Climate Adaptation Forum” series held three times per year. Flooding causes tremendous social and economic disruption to communities, and recovery can be very costly. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was created in 1968 in to identify and reduce overall flood risk, and provide affordable flood insurance. Almost all municipalities […]
Numerous communities across North Jersey have turned to Green Infrastructure (GI) as a stormwater management solution, often with community input on planning and design. In an urban setting, GI affords wide-ranging benefits. GI is an economical approach to water management that mimics the natural water cycle through the planting of trees and other vegetation. GI […]