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Predicting Your Pavement’s Future

Researchers are incorporating local data and other tweaks to improve predictions of road surface performance and enhance overall asset management.

Spotlight on Safety Solutions

President Barack Obama recently toured the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, VA.

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.

Engineering Scenic Highways

This spotlight on the work of FHWA’s Office of Federal Lands Highway illustrates the challenges and rewards of providing safe and innovative roadways on public lands.

Leveraging Data for Safer Highways

In 2012, more than 33,500 fatalities occurred on U.S. highways — an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous year, and the first increase in fatalities since 2005.

Building Relationships That Matter

Delivered in classrooms and online, covering subjects across the full lifecycle of the highway transportation system, the National Highway Institute’s (NHI) courses bring industry experts and practitioners together to transfer knowledge and benefit from each other’s experiences.

Communication Product Updates

Below are brief descriptions of communications products recently developed by the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology.