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Novas Regras para Homologação e Operação dos Sistemas Free Flow nas Rodovias Brasileiras

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A Portaria Senatran nº 442/2025, publicada em 12 de junho de 2025, estabelece os procedimentos obrigatórios para homologação e interoperabilidade de sistemas de livre passagem (free flow) em rodovias de todo o território...more

Rodemer Kane Attorneys at Law

The Deadliest Highway in Colorado

Colorado is famous for its majestic mountain ranges and scenic highways that bring thousands of tourists and thrill-seekers from all over the world every year. Although these roads are ruggedly beautiful, many of them are as...more

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CONTRAN edita nova Resolução e atualiza a regulamentação do free-flow

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No dia 16 de outubro foi publicada a Resolução n° 1.013/2024 do Conselho Nacional de Trânsito - CONTRAN1, trazendo novas regras para disciplinar a operação dos sistemas de livre passagem, conhecidos como free-flow, em vias...more

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International Roadcheck Is Coming Soon

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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck (Roadcheck) is scheduled for May 14-16, 2024. Roadcheck is an annual high-visibility, high-volume commercial motor vehicle inspection and regulatory...more

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Podcast: Planning and Funding Climate Resilient California Coastal Infrastructure

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According to California’s projections, the miles of highways susceptible to coastal flooding in a 100-year storm event will triple from current levels to 370 miles by 2100, with over 3,750 miles exposed to temporary flooding....more

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[Webinar] Planning and Funding Climate Resilient California Coastal Infrastructure - December 5th, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PT

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According to California’s projections, the miles of highways susceptible to coastal flooding in a 100-year storm event will triple from current levels to 370 miles by 2100, with over 3,750 miles exposed to temporary flooding....more

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Potential Changes on the Horizon for DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

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The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program is in the midst of a major overhaul that would update, streamline, and clarify existing rules, strengthen implementation, and increase...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Resources ‎

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act from the U.S. Congress, signed into law November 15 by President Biden, provides $1.2 trillion to rebuild roads and bridges, water infrastructure, resilience, and internet, with a...more

Jackson Walker

How the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Affects Texas

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With President Biden signing the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law, Texas is set to receive an estimated $35.4 billion to improve infrastructure. Jackson Walker attorneys Amanda Crouch and Kate Goodrich walk through...more

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DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program: What Large and Small Construction Contractors Need to Know

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program provides opportunities for small businesses, owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, Tribes and...more

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[Webinar] DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program: What Large and Small Construction Contractors Need to Know - September...

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program provides opportunities for small businesses, owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, Tribes and...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

The Senate Agrees on an Infrastructure Deal! What It Means for Utility, Heavy Highway, and Transportation Construction

On July 28, 2021, the Senate voted 67-32 to advance a $550 billion infrastructure package to a final vote. The vote culminates months of negotiation to draw bi-partisan support for a compromised infrastructure deal of...more

Baker Donelson

The Biden Infrastructure Plan

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Released last week, the Biden infrastructure plan contains a few surprises, such as its reliance on corporate and individual tax increases to fund it and the broad scope of "infrastructure". Reaction to the plan has been...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

The American Jobs Plan—What Does it Mean for Utility, Heavy Highway, and Transportation Construction?

This week, President Biden introduced the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan (AJP), which includes his blueprint for investing in the country’s infrastructure, utility, and transportation systems over the next eight years. If...more

Fisher Phillips

Preparing Hazardous Materials Shipping Papers

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration enforces the Hazardous Materials Regulations on our nation’s highways, requiring anyone who offers, ships, or transports a hazardous material to include shipping papers that...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Caltrans Releases New Interim Guidance for Conducting Safety Impact Analyses Under CEQA

Guidance Brings Heightened Scrutiny - The California Department of Transportation recently released “Interim Land Development and Intergovernmental Review (LDIGR) Caltrans Safety Review Practitioners Guidance.” It...more

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Crafting Settlement Agreements in Eminent Domain

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Like the vast majority of general civil litigation, eminent domain matters usually settle before going to trial. The resolution is typically documented in either a stipulated judgment or a settlement agreement. ...more

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Northern Virginia’s Embark Richmond Highway Plan Amendment

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Fairfax County recently completed the Embark Richmond Highway Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the Richmond Highway Corridor in northern Virginia. The amendment created a substantial amount of new density — much of it...more

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Recent Developments in State Regulatory Approaches to Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

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Thanks to better technology and lower costs, fuel efficient electric vehicles (EVs) are on the move in nearly every state in the country. EVs have sparked what some believe will be a transportation sector transformation. And...more

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Federal Draft Infrastructure Bill Released - Aims To Provide Revenue To Repair Failing Infrastructure

A draft infrastructure bill, which aims to address the state of America’s infrastructure and remove some of the major federal roadblocks to funding, was introduced this week by U.S. House of Representatives Transportation &...more

Robinson+Cole RLUIPA Defense

Pave it! RFRA Unlikely to Protect Sacred Burial Ground

A Federal Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court of Oregon recently issued findings and recommendations in Chief Wilder Slockish, et al. v. U.S. Federal Highway Administration, et al., concluding that federal...more

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Important New Decision Impacting Legal Issues Motions in California Inverse Condemnation Cases

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As any experienced California eminent domain lawyer knows, there is a unique statutory mechanism that allows parties to bring a legal issues motion to secure a court’s ruling on a litany of issues that impact compensation....more

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Minnesota Legislature Convenes 2018 Session - Legal Wrangling Threatens Progress

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The 2018 Minnesota legislature kicked off at noon yesterday with no solution to the legal standoff in the Minnesota Senate over whether a Republican state senator can legally hold both her Senate seat and be lieutenant...more

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Proposed CEQA Guideline for Highway Projects Promises Flexibility In the Measurement of Traffic Impacts, But Delivers Ambiguity

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In response to material opposition from many of the transportation agencies in the State, the California Natural Resources Agency has proposed to provide transportation agencies with the discretion to determine the metric...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Tennessee Father Produces Video for Trump – To Change Dangerous Guardrail Ends

In 1995, I recall being given the opportunity to help Billy Hungerford; who was horrifically and tragically injured as a result of a defective guardrail. Since that time my law firm has handled injuries from defective guard...more

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