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Editorial: Welcome to TRB

Twelve thousand people from around the world are so devoted to transportation, in all of its many forms, that they are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to participate in the 96th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

January 9, 2017

Smart Windshields Seen as the New Ad Billboards

The next frontier in digital advertising may be your car’s windshield.

January 6, 2017

Oklahoma Transportation Department Presents Budget Needs to State Lawmakers

Lawmakers in the Oklahoma House of Representatives on Jan. 5 sat through a second day of in-depth budget hearings that give agency heads a chance to ask for more money.

January 6, 2017

Service Industries Expand at Faster Pace Than Forecast

America’s service providers expanded more than forecast last month, spurred by an upturn in orders that coincided with stepped-up demand at the nation’s factories.

January 5, 2017

Consumer Comfort Gauge in 2016 Was Strongest in Nine Years

American households were more upbeat last year on average than at any time since 2007, according to figures in the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index released Jan. 5.

January 5, 2017

Senate Commerce Committee to Consider Chao Nomination as Transportation Secretary

Watch a replay as the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee conducted a confirmation hearing Jan. 11 to consider the nomination of Elaine Chao as transportation secretary.

January 11, 2017

Montana Towns Band Together for Big Infrastructure Lobbying Push

When serious structural problems were discovered on two interchange bridges for interstates 15-90 in Butte, Montana state transportation officials scrambled to reroute semis and get immediate repair work under way.

January 5, 2017

Creative Highway Signs Get the Message Across to Rhode Island Drivers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — New England motorists have become familiar with idiosyncratic highway safety messages ever since Massachusetts began urging them to "Use Yah Blinkah" two years ago. But the new Rhode Island billboards had some Rhode Islanders scratching their heads, in some cases as a matter of taste and others out of genuine confusion.

January 5, 2017

75 MPH Speed Limit OK'd for Some Rural Michigan Highways

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Rick Snyder jumped on the speed train Jan. 5 when he signed a bill boosting the state's speed limit to 75 miles per hour on about 600 miles of highways in rural areas of the state. The bills also raise the maximum speed limit for trucks from 60 to 65 mph.

January 5, 2017

Trump's Trade Team Suggests His Hardnosed Campaign Talk Was No Bluff

The makeup of President-elect Donald Trump’s trade team suggests he wasn’t joking when he promised voters to shake things up.

January 5, 2017