Talking preservation? New report offers clues on how to improve outreach...
A new report from the Transportation Research Board‘s National Cooperative Research Program finds that, “Bringing about a change in attitudes toward highway maintenance and preservation actions will...
View ArticleSelling Transportation: Big Challenge, Different Stories
Many different organizations have tried to raise the general public awareness for the current state of the nation’s transportation infrastructure. In March, the American Society of Civil Engineers...
View ArticleIllinois DOT Launches Innovative ‘Driving Dead’ Traffic Safety Campaign
The Illinois Department of Transportation has tackled an ambitious campaign to eliminate traffic fatalities and it doesn’t look like any other highway safety campaign I’ve ever seen. The new Driving...
View ArticleWhat this transportation communicator wishes for in a new year …
It’s the holiday season and a time to take stock and be thankful for the year that has passed and, in turn, to look ahead in anticipation for what is still to come. It is with that spirit that I …...
View ArticleSelling Transportation: Big Challenge, Different Stories
Many different organizations have tried to raise the general public awareness for the current state of the nation’s transportation infrastructure. In March, the American Society of Civil Engineers...
View ArticleTalking Environment: Transportation Messaging and Accountability
Check your calendars. Earth Day is April 22, just weeks away. This will be the 45th anniversary of the first Earth Day, which is commonly referred to as the start of the modern environmental movement....
View ArticleNew Research Reveals Messages that Move Public to Support Transportation...
A new research report published this week by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program offers some insight into how the general public views transportation, and suggests some ways to discuss...
View ArticleTalking Transportation: From ‘Pothole Palooza’ to the Tweeting Pothole
In 2009, the District Department of Transportation began what, at the time, was a fairly novel way of interacting with the public over the state of infrastructure. What became known as “Pothole...
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