FARMINGTON - SAD 9 directors voted 12-2 Tuesday to restructure the administrative side of transportation and physical plant departments to be overseen by one director and an assistant director. Voting against the proposal were Directors Bob Flick of Farmington and Charisse Keach of Chesterville.
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS), a leader in environmental, safety and transportation solutions, today announced that it will form Federal Signal Technologies Group ("FSTech"), a new division to be focused on Intelligent Transportation Systems ("ITS") solutions. FSTech will be comprised of recently acquired Diamond Consulting, Sirit and VESystems as well as the Company's PIPS Technology and Federal Automated Parking Division ("FAPD") units. Manfred Rietsch, previously Chief Executive Officer of VESystems, will serve as the Group President of FSTech, reporting to William Osborne, Federal Signal's President and Chief Executive Officer.
The Secretary of Transportation, Norman Y. Mineta, has agreed to serve as the Chair of the 2005 Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFC-NCA).
Another multibillion, multiyear spending bill will soon be up for consideration by the 111th Congress. Surface transportation legislation will be up for renewal before September when the current law and funding authorizations are due to expire. The local environmental and smart growth advocacy group, 1000 Friends of Maryland, combined with Transportation for America (T4america.org), a relatively new national group, and recently hosted a town hall meeting to consider the implications of both the new transportation bill and the spending in the national economic stimulus package targeted to transportation projects.
WASHINGTON, March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) shows that only two in five American communities -- or 39 percent -- are affordable for typical households when their transportation costs are considered along with housing costs. The Housing + Transportation (H+T(SM)) Affordability Index, unveiled today, examines 337 metro areas across the country -- encompassing 161,000 neighborhoods and 80 percent of the U.S. population -- and provides the only comprehensive snapshot of neighborhood affordability by accounting for combined housing and transportation costs associated with a community. The H+T Index and its accompanying report, Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish, illustrate the direct link between household transportation costs and the...
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a combined $383,340 in competitive grant funding to Greenville and Hancock County for local airport improvements, according to U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Greenville will receive $89,127 to acquire land for hangar development at the Greenville Municipal Airport.
Record-Breaking Years According to the Federal Railroad Administration, in 2006, the last year for which numbers are available, U.S. rail companies generated $54 billion in revenues and shipped 36 million carloads of freight 1.77 trillion ton-miles over a combined network of 141,000 miles. In intermodal transportation, containers filled with goods can be loaded in West Virginia factories and shipped by tractor-trailer to a freight train terminal.
Something interesting happened in 2005: The trend reversed. Over the past two years, according to the Vermont Agency of Transportation, there has been a 12.6 percent combined increase in riders on the Vermonter and the Ethan Alien Express. Ridership on the Vermonter alone is up 17.8 percent over the last fiscal year, with 61,825 riders reported. AOT spokesman John Zicconi attributes the reversal to the effects of Hurricane Katrina. "The last couple of summers," he says, "gas prices have been at three bucks-plus, which is very different from the early part of the decade." Based on information gleaned by AOT's representatives in the field, Zicconi believes riders' newfound interest in trains is also due to a "much larger awareness of global warming and the environment, when it comes to em...
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