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PennDOT wins top honors at 2024 TSMO Awards
September 30th, 2024
The National Operations Center for Excellence (NOCoE) recently named the winners of its 2024 Transportation Systems Management and Operations or TSMO Awards, given out annually to help promote the value of TSMO; a set of strategies that focuses on operational improvements that maintains and restores existing transportation system performance without adding extra capacity. Photo courtesy […]
PennDOT’s Carroll named chair of AASHTO’s TransComm
August 21st, 2024
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) recently appointed Mike Carroll – secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation – to a two-year term as chair of its Committee on Transportation Communications, known as TransComm. Mike Carroll. Photo courtesy of PennDOT. Carroll – named PennDOT secretary in January 2023 – is a former state representative […]
PennDOT announces 2024 Innovations Challenge statewide winning team
May 16th, 2024
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has announced that a team of students from Norwin High school in Irwin, Westmoreland County, has been selected as the statewide winner for the 2024 Innovations Challenge. Mentored by Thomas Harskowitch, a teacher at Norwin High School, team members included Troy Horvath and Noah Wilson. For this year's challenge, students […]
‘Plastic roads’ are paved with good intention
December 26th, 2022
Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save money and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation contract workers lay pavement made partially with recycled plastic at Ridley […]
PennDOT announces $550 million in highway and bridge improvements
June 5th, 2017
Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that more than $550 million in highway and bridge improvements will begin or be bid across the Philadelphia region during the 2017 construction season, bringing the region’s total contract work this year to roughly 125 projects worth $2.2 billion. “The funding allocated […]