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A prototype of Joby Aviation’s electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft participates in a series of flight demonstrations at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport. [Photo: Texas Department of Transportation]
Air Taxi Pilot Program Takes Off at Fort Worth Alliance Airport
by Sandra Engelland | Sep 15, 2026
TxDOT’s Project Nexus aims to bring air taxi service to Dallas-Fort Worth and the rest of the Texas Triangle by 2029.
by David Seeley |
Mar 12, 2026
The U.S. DOT unveiled the selections with a minute-long video that opens with "The Jetsons" cartoon family buzzing around the sky in a flying car. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy calls what's coming to Texas "Ubers in the air."
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by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist |
Apr 28, 2024
Under the leadership of Senator Tan Parker and Representative Gio Capriglione, Texas' new Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council is gearing up for its next meeting on May 8, set to shape the future of AI legislation and innovation.
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by David Seeley |
May 24, 2023
In a 14-0 vote, the Dallas City Council has approved a TxDOT-recommended $1 billion "hybrid trench" plan to reconfigure I-345, the sprawling elevated highway that separates downtown Dallas from the Deep Ellum neighborhood to its east. Take a look at the new plan, and get ready for the gridlock to come when the bulldozers roll up—in 2028 or 2029.
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Irving-based 7-Eleven has launched 7Charge, a nationwide EV charging network, with at least two locations already available in Dallas and Fort Worth. [Photo: 7-Eleven]
Texas Legislature Eyes Expansion of EV Fast-Charging Stations Statewide
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 3, 2023
Electric vehicle owners across Dallas-Fort Worth and Texas could use an extra spark when it comes to EV fast-charging stations. Now two bills in the Texas Legislature could help spur expansion of the stations statewide—offering guidelines for how EV charging stations would be funded and built, and laying down how they would be registered with the state and be subject to inspections.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 8, 2023
"One word: plastics." That's the famous career advice from the movie The Graduate. A professor at UT Arlington must have gotten the same message, because 56 years later he's making history by using plastics to repair and stabilize roadways in the DFW area.
Dr. Sahadat Hossain—a UTA civil engineering professor and director of the school's Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability—got a grant of around $950,000 from the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation to achieve the first use of “plastic road” material in Texas. The project will begin with work on roads near Kaufman, southeast of Dallas.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 1, 2022
Led by Irving's Fluor Corporation in a joint venture with Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, the 10-mile-long TxDOT project included the reconstruction and widening of lanes on I-35E between U.S. 67 and I-30 and on U.S. 67 between I-20 and I-35E. Along this stretch of I-35, phase one of Southern Gateway Park—a sprawling planned deck park near the Dallas Zoo—has been decked out for its continuing construction.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 24, 2022
Southern Gateway Park, a planned $172 million, five-acre deck park over I-35 by the Dallas Zoo—just reached a big milestone. TxDOT has completed the foundation deck for Phase 1 of the deck park (seen in the right half of the image above). The park will literally and figuratively reconnect the Oak Cliff neighborhood that was divided by I-35 in the 1950s.
The park promises to be an engineering marvel with five acres of wooded slopes, water features, rocky escarpments, a restaurant/retail complex hidden under a hilltop, and one of the most awesome kids' playgrounds in North Texas. But its greatest achievement may be to make Oak Cliff whole again—and to bring all of Dallas together.
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The Horseshoe Project in downtown Dallas shines in the light of dusk. [Photo courtesy of Fluor Corp.]
Shake Shack, Horseshoe Project
Earn Design-Build Awards
by Lance Murray | Jul 14, 2017
Both projects will go on to compete for a National Award of Excellence and the Project of the Year to be announced in November at DBIA’s Design-Build Conference and Expo Awards Ceremony in Philadelphia.
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by Dave Moore |
May 16, 2017
Urban planners, transportation experts, activists, and citizens have banded together for a plan designed to embrace both transportation needs and livability of the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Dallas.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Dec 2, 2016
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $388,000 TxDOT grant for use on the two-year project.
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by Rachel Hawkins |
Oct 24, 2016
The researchers are working on de-icing geothermal technology that could be installed on existing infrastructure.
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Photo: Dallas Innovates/Quincy Preston
CityMAP Plots Transformational Path for Downtown Highways
by Lance Murray | Jun 10, 2016
The study, released by TxDOT on Friday suggest changes to the downtown highway systems that encourage development and the rekindling of neighborhood connections.
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