New Technologies Improve Cost-Effectiveness of CMA
For a long time, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been seeking an efficient, economical, and environmentally acceptable treatment of pavements to prevent or remove the accumulation of...
Tfhrc Hosts Collaborative Retroreflective Testing Effort
This article was adapted from information provided by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation.
The PAIR Initiative: Repairing and Revitalizing Our Nation's Physical Infrastructure
This article describes a national, broad-based initiative to change fundamentally the way we repair and renew our built environment.
FHWA Creates An Office Of Asset Management
Asset management – the cost-effective operation, maintenance, and preservation of transportation systems – is not a new concept for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). But with the opening...
TRB Superpave Committee: Keeping Superpavetmimplementation on The Road
The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), signed into law in June 1998, radically redefined the traditional arrangements for surface transportation research funding and...
Knowledge Management: Everyone Benefits By Sharing Information
Large organizations know a lot of things, but they don't always know what they know. Consider this scenario: You're a specialist in construction technology, and you work in a field office of the...
Are You Ready for Y2K?
PLEASE NOTE: Some of the information and links in this article may now be somewhat dated. With the passing of Y2K, some web sites and Y2K programs cited herein may have been dismantled. (updated...
FHWA Partners With Brigham Young University To Develop
Two-dimensional computer modeling of surface-water flows is an emerging technology within the hydraulic engineering field of civil engineering.
Highway Finance Information: A Key 21st Century Transportation Decision-Making Tool
Making informed transportation decisions for the 21st century will be a great challenge for transportation officials at all levels of government and for others during the TEA-21 era and beyond....
Condition and Performance of Epoxy-Coated Rebars in Bridge Decks
Fusion-bonded epoxy coating technology has been the primary defense used by most state highway agencies, including the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the New York State...
Guest Editorial
Editor's Notes
As we close out the 20th century, it is interesting to look back to near the beginning of the century and see that while circumstances are different now, the basic problems of highway officials...
Along the Road
Policy and Legislation
"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
We're still learning the variety of valuable ways that we can use the Internet. Yet, as wonderful as the prospect of global communication is and as excited as we are to have high bandwidth at our...
Training Update
Delivering Solutions for a World in Motion
These are just a few of the comments that previous attendees have said about ITS Software Acquisition (#13619), a new ITS course that started this spring
Conferences/Special Events Calendar
Conferences/Special Events Calendar
NovemberNov 3-4 1999AZTechTM Model Deployment Initiative ShowcaseArizona Department of Transportation...