I recently read about a study the North Dakota Department of Transportation (DOT) completed on 12 of the 14 roundabouts on its state highway system. It showed a reduction of crashes by 33 percent and fatal crashes by 59 percent. While this is great news, it’s not surprising. Similar results have […]
Month: July 2024
Transportation Troubleshooting: How Drone Technology Is Adding New Perspectives to Transportation
The impact unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are having on society extends far beyond stunning images and cinematography. In transportation, “drones” are saving lives, preventing injuries, reducing costs and accomplishing in hours or days what once took weeks or months. UAS deployment in transportation has expanded dramatically. In 2018, less than half […]
Thoughts From Engineers: Unraveling the History of U.S. Flooding
In an era in which flooding routinely tops the list as one of the costliest disasters in the United States, a book that distills the most-significant aspects of this issue in a probing retrospective spanning nearly two centuries couldn’t be timelier. Tim Palmer’s book, Seek Higher Ground—The Natural Solution to our […]