American Road and Transportation Builders Association

• CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carolinas AGC proudly announces the CAGC 2023 Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame Legacy winners .
• These winners—two who have left incredible legacies on our industry, and five who are still paving the way for future leaders to follow—embody the skill, integrity, and responsibility that Carolinas AGC and the Associated General Contractors stand for.
• These prestigious awards honor individuals, including those who have passed, who are making or made extraordinary contributions over their careers to Carolinas AGC, the construction industry, and the community they serve.
• Carolinas AGC (CAGC) is a construction trade association made up of contractors and construction-related firms that perform work in North Carolina and South Carolina.

• This was a major success after the June 11, 2023, disaster was predicted to snarl traffic for months.
• Transportation engineer Lee D. Han explains how planners, transit agencies and city governments anticipate and manage these disruptions.

How do agencies plan for disruptions like this?

• Traditional long-term planning focuses on anticipating and preparing for growing and shifting transportation demand patterns.
• Shorter-term planning is about ensuring mobility and safety during service disruptions.
• In addition, agencies develop a detouring plan for each bridge in case of a structural failure or service disruption.

What are some major challenges of rerouting traffic?

• Transportation agencies need to build or find excess capacity before a bridge fails, so that the disrupted traffic has alternative routes.
• This is usually manageable in major urban areas that have many parallel routes and bridges and built-in redundancy in their road networks.
• But for rural areas, failure of a major bridge can mean extra hours or even days of travel.

Can these events permanently change commuting and traffic patterns?

• While traffic is disrupted, motorists change their commute patterns or may even switch to other modes, such as buses or commuter rail.
• In the end, it’s hard to tell just by looking at usage whether commuters have changed their travel patterns permanently.

Will money from the 2021 infrastructure bill reduce the risk of these kinds of events?

• The American Road & Transportation Builders Association estimated that 1 in 3 U.S. bridges need repair.
• At the current rate, we are unlikely to catch up to a state of good repair any time soon.
• But strategic investments like the 2021 infrastructure bill can likely help repair and address critical deterioration concerns for some high-risk bridges, roads, dams and other structures.

Can public transit fill part of the gap?

• Public transit may be able to fill the gap in several ways when key roadway links are destroyed or damaged.
• Drivers can shift to transit as long as their trip origins and destinations are conveniently located near transit stations.
• But local public transit services struggle to fill longer-distance gaps that extend beyond their service areas.
• In major urban areas like Philadelphia that have large populations and have invested a lot in their transit systems, public transit could carry as much as 25% of daily commute trips.

• CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carolinas AGC is excited to announce the winners of the inaugural CAGC Community Impact Awards program.
• The CAGC Community Impact Awards honor member companies that are making significant contributions to their communities through their time, actions, talents, dedication, and resources.
• The 19 CAGC Community Impact Award recipients will be honored at the Carolinas AGC Summer Summit to be held in Asheville in July.
• Community Impact programs are recognized by:
  the size and scope of the community program/project and how it may be considered going above and beyond the call of duty;
  the organization that benefitted from the program/project;
  the impact of the program/project and how it has made a lasting or meaningful contribution or impact on their community.

• "A key takeaway from the Treasury data is that the bipartisan infrastructure law is working in year-one as intended, with state transportation departments disbursing funds and projects breaking ground," said American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black, who prepared the report.
• "The economic and quality of life benefits of the infrastructure law will become even more apparent as funding continues in coming years," adds ARTBA Chair Paula Hammond, a WSP USA senior vice president.
• Nationally, over 29,000 IIJA projects were launched through the end of September.The five largestprojects supported by formula funds in Florida are:
  To access national and state project data, visit: artbahighwaydashboard.org .
• Established in 1902, the Washington, D.C.-based ARTBA advocates for infrastructure investment and policy that meet the nation's need for safe and efficient travel.