Just Released: Bonus R&T Now Interchanges Episode, “Dr. Kelly Regal Sails Away”

Just prior to retiring as FHWA’s Associate Administrator of Research, Development, and Technology and Director of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Dr. Regal shared her advice and insights.

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Standardizing e-Construction: A Pilot Project in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Director Kelly Regal stands in a lab below the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center heading.
“I am extremely proud to be the first woman selected to lead the TFHRC research facility.”
As TFHRC Director Kelly Regal heads to retirement, read about her career path that veered through various modes of transportation.
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center logo above a highway with flowing traffic.
STAC shares crucial data with State departments of transportation to further advance highway safety throughout the nation.
The FHWA Safety Training Analysis Center (STAC) makes decades of valuable research on roadway safety accessible to stakeholders.
With sparse grass to the left and right and a dirt hill to the front, there is a paved roadway.
Extensive and expansive annual updates to the data on pavement performance throughout the Nation are now available.
Just released: Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) InfoPave Standard Data Release #38.
Labels explain the text on a CMS. The problem is Road Work; the location is at I-40, and the action is to use other routes.
Learn a studied approach for creating messages that are most likely to influence traveler behavior.
A Systematic Approach on CMS Messaging Selection During Nonrecurring Events: Decision Tree.
Image of an inmate in prison merged with an image of a man working in a roadway construction zone.
FHWA developed pilot programs in Indiana and Wisconsin that offer former inmates employment and life skills training while creating skilled workers for the transportation industry.
Learn about reentry workforce training pilot programs for incarcerated individuals.
Portrait of FHWA’s Office of International Programs Director Leslie J. Wright.
Wright discusses how the Office of International Programs ensures that U.S. roads are the safest and most advanced by providing communities access to global best practices.
Public Roads Autumn 2024 Guest Editorial by Leslie J. Wright.

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This video showcases FHWA research to ensure developing technologies meet the safety and efficiency needs of the Nation, including connected automated vehicles, truck platooning, and work zone data.

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