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Behind the Scenes at TMCs

Pulling back the curtain on transportation management centers reveals vital hubs for overseeing operations and information sharing on the Nation's highway network.

Unearthing Crow Tribal History

Archaeological excavations along Montana Highway 78 revealed much about the daily lives of the Crow people of more than a century ago.

Where These Drivers Went Wrong

An innovative Michigan study sheds light on engineering strategies to curtail the number and severity of wrong-way crashes on freeways.

Moving The Nation's Goods

FHWA and the I-95 Corridor Coalition examine institutional arrangements to improve the performance of multistate freight corridors.

Living Laboratories: Taking Research to the Streets

For many, the terms "research" and "laboratory" conjure images of solitary scientists in white smocks hunched over their lab benches, engineers crunching numbers at their computers, and graduate students running experiments for their advisors.

Walking and Bicycling Pay Off

Four pilot communities evaluated the effectiveness of investing Federal funds in nonmotorized transportation. The results are encouraging.

Helping Local Public Agencies Deliver Federal-Aid Projects

The job of building, maintaining, and operating the national highway system entails a number of inherent challenges, not the least of which is the fact that most of the nearly 4 million-mile (6.4 million-kilometer) system is owned and operated at the local level.