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  • Home
  • Economic Benefits
    • Attract and Maintain Talent
    • Business and Commerce Growth
    • Economic Expansion
    • Increased Property Value
    • Job Growth
    • Labor Force Participation
    • Local Economic Revitalization
    • Reduced Congestion
    • Reliability
    • Tourism
  • Quality of Life Benefits
    • Accessibility
    • Active Lifestyle
    • Affordability
    • Attractiveness
    • Community Health
    • Environmental Justice
    • Environmental Sustainability
    • Equity
    • Habitat and Ecosystem Conservation
    • Heritage Conservation
    • Housing
    • Land Use Planning and Conservation
    • Noise
    • Resilience
    • Safety
    • Shortened Travel Time
  • Find Your State
  • Read the Report
  • Resources
    • Today’s State DOTs: Leading Transportation Change
    • Transportation Is: Video Stories
    • EconWorks
    • Surface Reauthorization
  • Community Health,  Georgia,  Quality of Life Benefits of Transportation

    GDOT Works to Meet Georgia’s Growing Rural Transit Needs

    Seventy-nine-year-old April Kennedy lives alone. Most of the time she enjoys her independence, but every week she needs help getting to necessary appointments. Kennedy relies on a rural transit bus to provide round-trip…

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  • Economic Benefits of Transportation,  Georgia,  Reliability

    GDOT Bridge Bundling Replaces 24 Local Bridges in Just 24 Months

    GDOT plans, constructs and maintains state and federal highways. GDOT also assists local governments in maintaining their infrastructure, which includes bridges. And with some 8,000 bridges on Georgia’s off-system roads, there’s no shortage…

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  • Community Health,  Georgia,  Quality of Life Benefits of Transportation

    111-Year-Old Bridge Replaced in Just Five Months

    The new Courtland Street Bridge opened in downtown Atlanta in 2018, just five months after the 111-year-old bridge it replaced had closed to traffic. This major thoroughfare, surrounded by the campus of Georgia…

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  • Arkansas,  Economic Benefits of Transportation,  Reduced Congestion

    The Widening for U.S. Highway 70

    With the cutting of a ribbon, U.S. Highway 70 from Interstate 30 to Hot Springs officially became a newly widened five-lane highway. Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) Director Scott Bennett and members of…

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  • Active Lifestyle,  Arkansas,  Quality of Life Benefits of Transportation

    Summer Transportation Institute

    Chances are that most high school students would jump at the opportunity to spend a few weeks on a college campus with their peers participating in a hands-on program that explores careers in…

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