Public Roads
Overcoming An Identity Crisis: The Intelligent Transportation Industry and ITS America's National Awareness Campaign
If you listen to radio, watch television, or read a magazine, you may have seen or heard these slogans before: "We don't make the products - we just make them better." "Intel Inside." "Supermarket to the World." Advertising slogans that speak volumes to consumers are part of the American lexicon, and the benefits conveyed in those slogans are easily understood and remembered.Demo '97: Proving Ahs Works
This article is adapted from information provided by the National Automated Highway System Consortium.Congress Battles Over Successor to ISTEA
For those who are helping to decide the future of the nation's transportation system, there won't be many leisurely days this summer. Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 has taken center stage on Capitol Hill, and a great deal is riding on the outcome. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater said the bill "will determine whether our nation can enter the 21st century ready to compete and win in a global economy."
Truckers Deliver A Piece of Their Mind
"Tell it like it is," we urged them. And, boy, did they ever.Transportation Asset Management
Asset management may not be a brand-new idea, but it's one that an increasing number of transportation leaders are taking seriously.The Phoenix
Trees litter the land like fallen soldiers. The ground is scraped bare. It's not a pretty sight - it's site preparation for road construction. At the time, it's hard to imagine that something more than a new road could result from the demolition.
But that's where you're wrong. Sometimes a phoenix rises from the ashes. In this case, life-size replicas of Canadian geese, tundra swans, Hawaiian nene geese, and Japanese cranes were "born" from downed trees.