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3 Lessons From the West Virginia DOT on Developing a Drone Program

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3 Lessons From the West Virginia DOT on Developing a Drone Program. State departments of transportation (DOTs) are responsible for building and maintaining critical infrastructure across the country and finding new and innovative ways to address the demands of future growth on the nation’s roads and bridges.

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US DOT Awards $830M for Resilience-Related Infrastructure Upgrades

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Grants go to 80 road, bridge, transit and other projects to improve their ability to withstand floods, rising seas and other harmful effects of climate change in 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

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Michigan DOT Selects Firm for First U.S. Wireless Vehicle Charging Road Infrastructure

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Electreon will develop state's inductive vehicle charging road system, furthering its planned transition to all-electric transit fleets.

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Federal Infrastructure Bill Paves the Way Toward More Transportation Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships

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trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is poised to change how the United States views and implements public-private partnerships (P3s). DOT has allocated approximately $16.9 Congress has a strong interest in increasing P3s in the transportation infrastructure sector long after the IIJA phases out.

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Ohio planning $2.3B of road and highway projects this year

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State DOT officials said 90% of every dollar the agency invests this year is going toward its infrastructure, which will include nearly 1,000 projects.

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Report: Oregon 'hottest' market for roads through 2021

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DOT markets also identifies Texas, Florida and other states as meccas for infrastructure construction opportunities. The Zweig Group's guide to U.S.

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Upgrading Roads for Driverless Cars

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With that in mind, federal and state DOTs are looking at what can be done now while new roads are built and existing highways are repaired to prepare for "connected vehicles" merging into the nation's traffic. Word on the street is that self-driving cars are coming to our near future.

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