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In Commemoration

Lucio Aleman, Jr., 33, from the Technical Operations Staff. Oklahoma Division. Lucio began his career with FHWA in 1989 as a highway engineer trainee in the Highway Engineering Training Program. Upon his successful completion of the program, he moved to Oklahoma City where he has served as the safety program engineer since February 1994.

Editor's Notes

Just a few notes to keep you posted on what's inside this issue and what's happening with Public Roads.

Along the Road

"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.

Recent Publications

This report summarizes existing pavement condition indices and available prediction models for each condition index, and it also identifies existing databases, where the required variables for the prediction models have been collected.

New Research

Objectives: To examine the highway safety data collection and analysis process and to develop and implement a user-friendly system.

California's Temporary Freeway Bridge

On the evening of March 10, 1995, in soggy Southern California near Coalinga, the twin bridges carrying Interstate 5 over the Arroyo Pasajero collapsed, killing seven people.

Navigating the Future

Navigation and positioning technologies are being revolutionized by a system developed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).