Highways For LIFE
The pilot program has facilitated adoption of many innovative technologies ranging from prefab bridge components to all-weather pavement markings, and more.
Visualization's Next Frontier
The time has come for this design tool to advance from use as a conceptual exhibit to full integration into the project development process.
Spotlight on Senior Mobility
This overview summarizes a series of articles that appeared in Public Roads recently, focusing on transportation challenges that face an aging population.
Handy Lessons From Overseas on Walking and Bicycling
Tag along on a scan tour of Europe to pick up new insights on how to develop livable communities by making them friendlier to nonmotorized traffic.
Risking Success Through Flexible Design
For many years, the customary approach to highway project development had been for engineers to gather information, make independent decisions, and then announce and justify their design plans to...
Practical Design
MoDOT emphasizes a new philosophy of doing everything well instead of a few things perfectly.
Guest Editorial
In Building the Nation's Transportation Future, Every Day Counts
The last 13 years have ushered in some significant changes in our lives. The Blackberry® went from an idea to a cultural phenomenon.
Along the Road
Management and Administration
Along the Road is the place to look for information about current and upcoming activities, developments, trends, and items of general interest to the highway community.
Internet Watch
Internet Watch
Of the 1,917 miles (3,085 kilometers) that make up the entire length of I-95 stretching from Maine to Florida, more than 1,040 miles (1,674 kilometers), or 60 percent, are subject to regular heavy...
Training Update
The National Highway Institute (NHI)
Quality assurance practices are one of the most effective means of controlling and improving construction quality, which is critical to building and maintaining safe, long-lasting highway...
Communication Product Updates
Communication Product Updates
Below are brief descriptions of communications products recently developed by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology.
Conferences/Special Events Calendar
Conferences/Special Events Calendar
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