WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, released the 2010 edition of the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD).

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PORTLAND, MAINE AND NORWOOD, MASS. — GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., an environmental and geotechnical consulting firm, has been named as the geotechnical subconsultant of the Reed & Reed – T.Y. Lin International Design-Build team for the Maine Department of Transportation Veteran’s Memorial Bridge project in South Portland and Portland, Maine.

Despite a growing awareness that America’s aging network of highways, bridges, and tunnels is in failing health, huge roadblocks are preventing congressional action on a new national transportation bill: the lack of adequate funding sources and consensus on a vision that helps plan, prioritize, and pay for U.S. infrastructure.

ITS America presented a Smart Solution Spotlight award to Alpharetta, Ga.–based LifeSpan Technologies for pioneering cost-effective structural monitoring technologies that provide state and local agencies with precise, objective information about the structural condition of bridges — information that could be used to monitor and evaluate the condition of tens of thousands of structurally deficient bridges across the country.