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Memo: State omitted a sign at site of fatal bus crash (2007-06-27)
Eleven years before an apparently confused bus driver exited I-75, careened off Northside Drive and killed seven people, state highway engineers planning signs near the ramp had a problem. ... 
Billboards Aim to Get Seattle Drivers to Slow Down (2007-06-11)
They show demolished cars flipped on their backs, a dramatic picture certain to startle drivers on Rainier Avenue South. ...
Arizona Awards $1.5 Million in Tourism Grants (2007-06-09)
The Arizona Office of Tourism (AOT) is awarding $1.5 million in matching grants to tourism organizations and tribal entities around the state for fiscal year 2008. ...
Glitches stall traffic on 511 (2007-06-09)
Central Florida motorists hoping to use the system to estimate travel times are hitting roadblocks. ...
Lights, cameras and active alerts for I-64 (2007-06-09)
The final stages of a $130 million project should make traffic information clear to Peninsula motorists. ...
Digital 10 gets contract to promote Michigan tourism (2007-05-23)
Digital 10 Network was awarded a three-year networking contract with the Michigan Department of Transportation and Travel Michigan to provide video and stereo messages to travelers visiting any of the 14 Welcome Centers across the state. ...
Reflective technology to make parkway safer (2007-05-23)
When Garden State Parkway motorists get to the southern terminus of the highway this summer they may have a better indication that the roadway is ending. ...
Warning signs may replace memorials (2007-05-13)
An increasing number of states want to replace homemade roadside memorials marking traffic fatalities with official signs warning drivers not to drive while intoxicated or to watch for pedestrians and bicyclists. ...
Toll signs take new direction (2007-04-25)
Virtual trip on toll road used to devise new tollway signs. ...
CHILDREN AT PLAY signs do not slow drivers (2007-04-05)
In several other Tennessee cities, the yellow diamond-shaped signs are being forsaken because of concerns about their ability to actually slow down drivers. ...
Traffic sign too confusing (2007-04-05)
Belgian design for a new traffic sign aimed at reminding truckers that they may not overtake other traffic in rainy weather has been scrapped. ...
Arizona Office of Tourism Launches National Geographic Arizona-Sonora Desert Region Geotourism MapGuide (2007-04-05)
The Arizona-Sonora Region Geotourism MapGuide is the first bi-national geotourism initiative that National Geographic has undertaken, with the map focusing on the Sonoran Desert that encompasses southern Arizona and the northern Mexico state of Sonora. ...
Internet kiosks at rest stops to offer traveler information (2007-01-09)
Motorists in Iowa soon will have access to new Internet kiosks at interstate highway rest areas ...
Tennessee DOT: Sign similarity to Interstate design illegal (2006-11-14)
Health system company told to take down billboards ...
Inmates help bring tourists to North Carolina (2006-11-13)
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women staff phones and send out mailings. ...
Signs should point to common sense (2006-10-26)
Too many road signs in Wisconsin? ...
Sign of the times (2006-09-26)
"Ohhhhhh, you won't hear me complain, but they sure do give me pain. It's those orange barrels in my lane." So went the old trucker's song about driving the interstates in the '80s. ...
Travel related businesses can now apply for .travel domain names. (2006-07-31)
Travel and tourism businesses can find all the information they need to acquire .travel domain names quickly and effortlessly on the newly redesigned www.travel.travel website. ...
TICKERAlert Expands Information and Emergency Alert Network to All Georgia D.O.T. Welcome Centers and Rest Areas (2006-06-08)
The Information and Emergency Alert electronic signs are specially designed with real-time messaging ...
The 411 on voice-activated 511 (2006-05-23)
One columnist's view: Florida's new voice-activated 511 system can leave callers feeling beleaguered ...
Signs of little help to deer or cars (2006-05-23)
Hundreds of them line highways across Kansas and Missouri. They are supposed to save you from a life-threatening encounter with a deer. Chances are they won’t. ...
Interstate Oasis Program (2006-04-06)
Official notice and call for comments ...
Interstate Oasis regulations posted for comment (2006-03-07)
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is developing federal regulations for Interstate Oasis programs ...
Virginia launches new 511 email alert service (2006-02-13)
Department of Transportation (VDOT) 511 travel service, which offers traffic and traveler information, has a new email alert system. ...
Looking Down The Highway (2006-02-07)
The U.S. interstate highway system will turn 50 this year, on June 29. ...
$145 Million in Unused Federal Earmarks for State Transportation Projects (2006-01-01)
On January 4, 2006, ITS America volunteers within the Coordinating Council, State Chapters Council, Transportation Systems Operations and Planning Forum, and Business Leadership Council initiated an awareness campaign for state departments ...
Just-for-fun quiz: identify road signs (2005-10-20)
Take this Forbes quiz and see if you can figure out what each road sign means by its icon ...
Boulder County, Colorado, Sign Maintenance Receives Big Dividends from ArcPad (2002-12-31)
Mobile GPS system helps city workers track and maintain roadside signs. ...
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