Applications & Innovations

Better Roads Staff - Jul 03, 2012

Using RAS Recycled asphalt shingles are an acquired taste When going from the roof to the road in recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) mixes, “it’s all in the details,” says John Christensen, technical marketing manager for MeadWestvaco (MWV). It’s not impossible to get density ...

MoDOT wins national highway safety award

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Sep 28, 2011

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) was recognized Sept. 27 by the Governor's Highway Safety Association for its work to save lives on Missouri highways. MoDOT received the Peter K. O'Rourke Special Achievement Award for spearheading a ...

Missouri DOT goal: Re-open flooded roads by end of 2011

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Sep 23, 2011

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) says its aiming to get flooded routes open as quickly and safely as possible by the end of 2011, the agency announced on Sept. 21. One of the first big steps to accomplish this goal ...

Commission adopts plan to make Missouri DOT smaller

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 09, 2011

Reduction in Staff, Facilities and Equipment Will Save $512 Million The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission adopted a plan that will make the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) a smaller agency so more funding can be directed to ...

Missouri in top five for measuring transportation performance

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 02, 2011

Missouri is one of the top five states in the nation in using performance measures — such as safety, on-time and on-budget construction projects and improved traffic flow — to show taxpayers how their transportation dollars are being spent. A report ...

Missouri to host 2012 National Work Zone Week event

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Apr 19, 2011

On the heels of Work Zone Awareness Week, Missouri has been chosen from several other state nominees to host the national work zone kick-off event on Monday, April 23, 2012. "We wanted to select a state that's doing something wonderful that ...

Missouri DOT selling land parcels no longer needed for highways

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 18, 2011

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is having a spring sale -- of land, that is. MoDOT will be selling off parcels of land the department no longer needs to build, improve or maintain the state highway system. A few years ...

Kevin Keith new Missouri DOT director

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Nov 16, 2010

The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) has selected Kevin Keith as director of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). Keith has served as the department's interim director since April and has been chief engineer of MoDOT for nine years. He ...

MoDOT’s eco-friendly approach to construction

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Oct 07, 2010

Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has adopted an innovative approach to aid in stream improvement that is providing habitat enhancements for endangered fish and wildlife, while reducing project costs and completion times, simplifying the permitting process and making Missouri’s roads ...

Missouri DOT completes 200th ‘Safe & Sound Bridge’

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Aug 25, 2010

In the last 15 months, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has made it one-fourth of the way to its goal of 802 new and improved bridges in five years. When the Route JJ bridge over Richland Creek in Morgan County ...

Missouri DOT officially opens first U.S. stimulus project

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Aug 10, 2010

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will officially open the first U.S. economic recovery act project – the Osage River Bridge at Tuscumbia, Mo. – following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. on Aug. 16. MoDOT Interim Director Kevin Keith will ...

Five-year highway construction program approved

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jul 13, 2010

Missouri's five-year highway construction program was approved July 1, 2010, by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, but it's only one-third the size of the 2009 program. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) says the funding is barely enough in funds ...

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