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FHWA R&T Now Newsletter - January 2010

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IN THIS ISSUE...  

  • GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE
    • FHWA at TRB's Annual Meeting
    • Certificate of Appreciation at TRB International Participant's Reception
    • Every Day Counts Initiative
    • Planning for SHRP 2 Implementation
    • RITA Seeking Input on It's 5-Year Strategic Plan
  • ADVANCED RESEARCH
    • FHWA EAR Program Results
    • FHWA EAR Program Awards Research on Nanoscale Approaches for Inhibiting Corrosion
    • FHWA EAR Program Initiates Research on Innovative Approaches for Next Generation Vehicle Positioning
    • Fact Sheet: Time-Frequency Analysis Mathematical Analysis of the Empirical Mode Decomposition
    • Fact Sheet: Real-Time Pedestrian Detection Layered Object Recognition System for Pedestrian Collision Sensing
    • Fact Sheet: Driving Automation Forward: Human Factors for Limited-Ability Autonomous Driving Systems
    • FHWA EAR Program Updates Focus Areas for FY 2010
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    • Computer-Based Guidelines for Concrete Pavements: HIPERPAV III USER MANUAL
    • Multimedia: Calibrating the Falling Weight Deflectometer Video
    • Report: Bridge Pressure Flow Scour for Clear Water Conditions
    • TechBrief: High Performance Concrete Bridge Deck Investigation
    • TechBrief: Structural Behavior of a Prototype UHPC Pi-Girder
    • TechBrief: Structural Behavior of a Second Generation UHPC Pi-Girder
    • Report: Development of a Multiaxial Viscoelastoplastic Continuum Damage Model for Asphalt Mixtures
  • SAFETY
    • Introducing the Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse
    • Older Driver/Senior Mobility Series
    • TechBriefs Present Six Alternative Intersections and Interchanges
    • New Reports and TechBriefs from Low Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study
    • Report Considers the Effects of In-Vehicle and Infrastructure-Based Collision Warnings at Signalized Intersections
    • TechBrief: Surrogate Safety Assessment Model
  • OPERATIONS
    • FHWA Research Engineer to Take Over as New Chair of the User Information Systems Committee
  • RECENT PERIODICALS
    • FOCUS Newsletter—December 2009
    • FOCUS Newsletter—November 2009
    • Public Roads—January/February 2010
    • Innovator–Accelerating Innovation for the American Driving Experience-October/November 2009
    • Transportation and Climate Change Newsletter –November/December 2009
    • Centered on Service- December 2009

Links:
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center: www.tfhrc.gov
Resource Center: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/
National Highway Institute: http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/home.aspx

ABOUT FHWA R&T NOW

FHWA R&T Now is a newsletter containing information and updates about research, technology, and development from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The newsletter is an electronic newsletter and is updated approximately every other month.
 

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FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology
Attention: Dawn Vanlandingham
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA 22101

 

Publishing Date:
January 2010
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Key Words–Infrastructure, Operations, Safety, EAR, exploratory advanced research, research, V2X Hub, technology transfer, T2, nondestructive evaluation, NDE lab, crowdsourcing, CACC, cooperative adaptive cruise control, vehicle string, crash test, cell phone, managed lanes, alkali-silica reaction, ASR, simulator, asphalt, pavement test facility, indirect tensile-cracking test.

 

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