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OFFICE OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CENTER

FHWA R&T Now Newsletter - September/October 2018

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IN THIS ISSUE...  

  • POLICY & PARTNERSHIPS
    • Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center Visiting Researchers Take Home First Place at Transportation Technology Tournament
  • EXPLORATORY ADVANCED RESEARCH
    • Sensor System Research Aids Infrastructure
    • NRC Associate Wins TRB Best Paper Award for Eco-Drive Experiment
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    • LTPP Team’s InfoPave™ Earns Achievement of the Month
  • OPERATIONS
    • TFHRC Researcher to Receive Award at the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting
  • SAFETY
    • Pickup Truck Crash Test at TFHRC Will Aid in Development of Surrogate Testing Vehicles
    • Canada Transportation Officials Visit Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center for V2I and V2V Information Exchange
  • RECENT PERIODICALS
    • Public Roads—Fall 2018
    • Innovator: Accelerating Innovation for the American Driving Experience—September/October 2018

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
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McLean, VA 22101

Publishing Date:
September 2018
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This newsletter is an archived publication and may contain dated technical, contact, and link information.


Distribution–FHWA R&T Now is being distributed according to a standard distribution. Direct distribution is being made to the FHWA Divisions and Resource Center.


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.


Notice–This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the USDOT in the interest of information exchange. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for the use of the information contained in this document.
 

The U.S. Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. Trademarks or manufacturers' names appear in this report only because they are considered essential to the objective of the document.


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Publishing Office:
Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management
FHWA Program(s):
Corporate
AMRP Program(s):
Corporate
Subject Area:
Research
Safety and Human Factors
Public Roads
Pavements