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Policy and Legislation

"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.

Title: Technical Support for Photometric Research

The following new research studies reported by the Federal Highway Administration are sponsored in whole or in part with federal highway funds. For further details on a particular study, please contact Bob Bryant, editor of Public Roads.

Conferences/Special Events Calendar

Sunday, October 27 - Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1996

IBTTA 64th Annual Meeting

Rome, Italy

Sponsor:IBTTA

Contact: Janet M. Chaikin

(202) 659-4620

Fax:(202) 659-0500

Sunday, Oct. 27 - Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1996

ATA Management Conference and Exhibition

San Antonio, Texas

Sponsor: ATA

Contact: Gail Wright

(703) 838-1755

Monday, Nov. 3 - Friday, Nov. 8, 1996

Congestion Pricing: Reducing Traffic Jams Through Economics

In urban areas across the country, people are not only fed up with gridlock they're paying for it.For each of 13 urban areas in 1992, the cost caused by congestion exceeded $1 billion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. Congestion costs were more than $8 billion for Los Angeles, more than $7 billion for New York City, and close to $3 billion each for San Francisco-Oakland, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Performance of Epoxy-Coated Rebars in Bridge Decks

The deterioration of reinforced concrete structures is a major problem. The cost of repairing or replacing deteriorated structures -- estimated to be more than $20 billion and to be increasing at $500 million a year -- has become a major liability for highway agencies.

FHWA Launches New Nationwide Seismic Bridge Design Training

Bridge designers have had difficulty applying the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) bridge seismic design specification since its adoption in 1983 because it requires an understanding of dynamic analysis, seismic hazard concepts, elastic and inelastic structural response, soil-structure interaction, and structure ductility, among other things.

Aftermath of The Kobe Earthquake

On Jan. 17, 1995, the Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake struck the densely populated Kobe, Japan, area with a Richter magnitude 7.2. In terms of magnitude, this earthquake was not as large as some previous earthquakes in Japan.

Westrack: The Road to Solutions

Test tracks, in which large numbers of pavement test sections can be loaded to failure by trucks in controlled experiments, are key contributors to improving pavement design.