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Bringing Conference-Style Training to the Desktop

The National Highway Institute serves customers from across the highway sector: State departments of transportation, local public agencies, consultants, and industry professionals. Increasingly, many of them face restrictions on travel, reduced staffing, and limited time, all of which impact their ability to participate in classroom training or conferences, or to host traditional instructor-led training. To help meet the need for training within these constraints, NHI offers a wide variety of Web-based training and webinars.

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. All of the reports are or will soon be available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). In some cases, limited copies of the communications products are available from FHWA’s Research and Technology (R&T) Product Distribution Center (PDC).

Taming Cyber Risks

Advances in technology and connectivity are challenging the transportation community to improve cybersecurity.

Check Out Your Latest FP

Every few years, FHWA’s Office of Federal Lands Highway updates the specs for building roads and bridges to access Federal and tribal lands. Here’s the news.

Powering An Energy Revolution

A boom in U.S. energy development is challenging transportation agencies to alleviate the strain related to increased truck traffic on aging infrastructure.