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Communication Product Updates

Below are brief descriptions of products recently published online by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology.

The Evolution of Advanced Research

FHWA outlines its plan to pursue the next generation of high-risk, high-payoff technologies and innovations to solve critical highway challenges.

Following The Flow

TxDOT's new approach to monitoring highway runoff promises improved compliance with clean water standards.

The Battle of Its Life

Even as construction continued at a record pace, the Interstate System needed a rescuer-and found one in Rex Whitton of Missouri.

The Evolution of Context Sensitive Solutions

As noted in one of this issue's articles, "An Orphaned Highway," CBS travel correspondent Charles Kuralt, in his 1979 bookDateline America, identified the most beautiful highway in America as U.S. 212, the Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged mountain terrain, the Beartooth provided an economic lifeline for the region while improving safety and mobility and preserving the scenic characteristics of the area. Beartooth's designers applied some of the principles of "context sensitive solutions" more than half a century before the phrase was coined.

Management and Administration

Along the Road is the place to look for information about current and upcoming activities, developments, trends, and items of general interest to the highway community.