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Public Roads

New Focus for Highway Safety

FHWA's performance-based approach is addressing those initiatives where the prospects for improvement are greatest.

The Many Faces of Safety

More than 42,000 fatalities occur on American highways every year. Those deaths are not just numbers or statistics.

One Way to A Better Road

To save time and money, a growing Georgia community in the metropolitan Atlanta area reclaims busy roadways using foamed asphalt base stabilization.

The Rewards of Stewardship

Biologists in Arkansas recently rediscovered a creature that many people thought had been extinct for nearly 60 years.