Take a look at this video which illustrates the time-lapsed life-cycle of a roadway. When a decision is made to build a new road, it is a long-term commitment to an ever-expanding future budget for repair, renewal and rebuilding. As our network of roads expands (and ages), where is the needed money going to come from?
With a tone that is positively gooey with industrial-era optimism, this Disney-produced video clip explores the endless possibilities for personal mobility via future "roads."
Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks unemployment in a variety of ways. Let's look at unemployment by one particular demographic which covers the engineering and planning consultants among us.
It’s hard to disagree that association involvement is helpful to one's career, but it’s necessary to understand your objectives before selecting these important commitments. The types of associations with which you choose to get involved can add value to your professional experience in very different ways.
No one dares write about this topic now, amidst high unemployment, but the current circumstances are merely distracting us from the truth: We in the U.S. are not producing the highly skilled workforce, in labor or the professional sciences, which can meet the demands of a normally functioning economy.
Recent news and opinion about funding transportation through toll roads or taxes.
