The United States Department of Transportation is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It was established by Congress in the Department of Transportation Act on October 15,1966.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas:Engineer Regiment,military construction,and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the Engineer Regiment,comprising combat engineer,rescue,construction,dive,and other specialty units,and answers directly to the Chief of Staff of the Army. Combat engineers,sometimes called sappers,form an integral part of the Army's combined arms team and are found in all Army service components:Regular Army,National Guard,and Army Reserve. Their duties are to breach obstacles;construct fighting positions,fixed/floating bridges,and obstacles and defensive positions;place and detonate explosives;conduct route clearance operations;emplace and detect landmines;and fight as provisional infantry when required. For the military construction mission,the commanding general is directed and supervised by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for installations,environment,and energy,whom the President appoints and the Senate confirms. Military construction relates to construction on military bases and worldwide installations.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a United States service academy in Kings Point,New York. It trains its midshipmen to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine,branches of the United States Armed Forces and the transportation industry. Midshipmen are trained in different fields such as marine engineering,navigation,ship's administration,maritime law,personnel management,international law,customs,and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs,road surface markings,and signals are designed,installed,and used. In the United States,all traffic control devices must legally conform to these standards. The manual is used by state and local agencies as well as private construction firms to ensure that the traffic control devices they use conform to the national standard. While some state agencies have developed their own sets of standards,including their own MUTCDs,these must substantially conform to the federal MUTCD.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs,the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry,Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads.
The Inter-American Highway (IAH) is the Central American section of the Pan-American Highway and spans 5,470 kilometers (3,400 mi) between Nuevo Laredo,Mexico,and Panama City,Panama.
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) is a state government organization in the United States,in charge of maintaining public transportation,roadways,bridges,canals,select levees,floodplain management,port facilities,commercial vehicles,and aviation which includes 69 airports,in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The agency has approximately five thousand personnel on staff and an operating budget of $2.3 billion. DOTD operations are run through nine district offices across the state.
Francis Cutler Turner was an American administrator,who headed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from March 30,1969 to June 30,1972.
Victor Mendez is the former Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 2014 to 2017 and was previously sworn in on July 24,2009,as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),the 18th person to hold this position.
Interstate 781 (I-781) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway north of Watertown in Jefferson County,New York,in the United States. The route extends for 4.9 miles (7.9 km) from an interchange with I-81 in Pamelia to the main entrance of Fort Drum in Le Ray. It also has one intermediate interchange with U.S. Route 11 (US 11) just west of Fort Drum. I-781 is four lanes wide and serves as the principal travel corridor into and out of the post. The freeway is ceremoniously designated as the Paul Cerjan Memorial Highway in honor of Paul G. Cerjan,a late US Army Lieutenant General who oversaw a $1.2 billion expansion of Fort Drum in the 1980s.
Arthur Eugene "Gene" Dewey was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration from 2002 to 2005.
Samuel George Bonasso is a career civil engineer,entrepreneur and inventor,who also worked as a public servant in the transportation sector at the state and federal levels and contributing innovations in his industry. Bonasso has founded three businesses and is the holder of five U.S. patents,Bonasso was West Virginia Secretary of Transportation from 1998 to 2000 in the Governor Cecil H. Underwood administration. He then served as deputy administrator,then acting administrator,of the Research and Special Programs Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation under Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta,during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Collins Engineers,Inc. is an ENR Top 500 Design Firm and provides civil,structural,water resources,waterfront,program management and underwater engineering services to government agencies,contractors,and private sector clients. The firm was founded by Thomas J. Collins in April 1979. It is a privately held company with eighteen offices in the United States,United Kingdom,and Ireland. Collins Engineers,Inc. is headquartered in Chicago,Illinois.
Collins Engineers,Inc. was an early advocate for the use of professional engineers as diving inspectors in the evaluation of underwater structures. Using this service,the firm provides underwater engineering services performed by in-house engineer-divers around the world to clients including the United States Navy and state departments of transportation. Collins Engineers,Inc. has also developed reference manuals on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and National Highway Institute (NHI).
Collins Engineers,Inc. also provides design and analysis services for railroads,waterfront facilities,and transportation structures,as well as site development engineering for commercial and institutional concerns.
In 2006,Collins Engineers,Inc. acquired MacIntosh Engineering and Development Co.. In 2008,Collins Engineers,Inc. acquired Charles Keim &Associates,Inc..
Richard Eldon Killblane is an American military historian and author. A West Point grad in 1979 and a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School. He has served in the U. S. Army and became an Intelligence Analyst in the 1st Special Forces Group,on Okinawa,Japan and was cross-trained onto a team as a demolitions man. Killblane is a veteran of Central American counter-insurgency and Operation Just Cause. He served as the Command Historian of the U.S. Army Transportation School at Fort Lee,Virginia for 18 years and traveled extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan to research convoy operations. He has published numerous articles and books on military history and is considered an authority on military convoy security. In 2003,Killblane co-authored The Filthy Thirteen:The True Story of the Dirty Dozen detailing the life and World War II 101st Airborne Division exploits of Jake McNiece.
Philip Bracken Fleming was a United States Army general and United States Ambassador to Costa Rica.
Richard Samuel Kem was a United States Army major general who served as Commander,U.S. Army Engineering Center at Fort Belvoir. His final assignment before his October 1990 retirement was as deputy commander of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Gregory G. Nadeau is an American government official who served as the administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 2015 to 2017. He carried out the duties of the Federal Highway Administrator in acting capacity from 2014 to 2015 after his predecessor Victor Mendez began serving as acting Deputy Secretary of Transportation. He was officially sworn in as Federal Highway Administrator on August 11,2015 and continued in this position until President Trump's inauguration on January 20,2017,when he resigned to work in the private sector.
Lt. Gen. Kenneth Richard Wykle is a retired American Army officer and civil servant who served as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration under the second Clinton administration.
James Arthur Knowlton is an American college athletics administrator and civil engineer who is the current director of athletics for the University of California,Berkeley. Previously,Knowlton served as the athletic director for the United States Air Force Academy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Joel Szabat is an American government official and former military officer. In August 2018,Szabat was nominated by President Donald Trump to become Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in a unanimous voice vote on January 2,2019. Szabat became Acting Under Secretary in June,2019.
