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IN THIS ISSUE...
- GENERAL/ADMINISTRATIVE
- NTSB Chair Visits Turner-Fairbank
- New “R&T Story” Video Available on FHWA YouTube Channel
- Attendees from Transportation YOU Summit Tour Turner-Fairbank
- Turner-Fairbank Hosts Students for Transportation Summer Mini-Camp
- ADVANCED RESEARCH
- EAR Publishes RAP Catalog
- Video Analytics Opens the Way to Managing Large Data Files
- Reference Scan on Behavioral Economics and Transportation Available on EAR Web site
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- Pavement Materials Team Hosts Meeting for TPF Project
- FHWA Brings New Safety Technology to the United States
- OGA Research to Advance Higher Friction Angles for Structural Backfills
- GRS-IBS Guidance Helps Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Construct Bridge
- SAFETY
- ELCSI Pooled Fund Study Holds Eleventh Annual Meeting
- Report Documents Factors Affecting Speed and Safety, Describes Treatments
- OPERATIONS
- Saxton Lab Demonstrates Nation’s First Automated Eco-Friendly Cruise Control
- Web Portals Demonstrated at USDOT Data Palooza
- University Researchers Spending Summer On Lane Change/Merge Weave Project
- Strategic Freight R&D Plan Development Underway
- Automated Vehicles Symposium 2015
- RECENT PERIODICALS
- Public Roads—May/June 2015
- Innovator: Accelerating Innovation for the American Driving Experience—July/August 2015
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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Publishing Date:
July 2014
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Safety and Human Factors
Public Roads