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Academia and Transportation on the Web

"Internet Watch" tracks new and interesting developments in transportation resources on the Internet.

Developing and Delivering Innovative Training & Education Programs

NHI is pleased to introduce its newest training course, "Freeway Traffic Operations" (Course #13375). The five-day course focuses on the operation of freeways -- specifically, ways to improve traffic flow and safety. A three-day version with selected modules is also available.

The 3:16 A.M. Syndrome

It was the table showing the outcome of the final compromise funding formula hammered out in the early morning hours of Nov. 26, 1991, that paved the way for the passage the next day of the landmark legislation known as ISTEA (Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991).

The National ITS Program: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

"It is the policy of the United States to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System that is economically sound, provides the foundation for the nation to compete in the global economy, and will move people and goods in an energy efficient-manner.

The National ITS Architecture: A Framework for ITS Infrastructure

Over the past decade, as information- and computer-based systems have become larger and more complex, the importance of and reliance on systems architectures have grown substantially.

ITS Is Already Paying Dividends

It's Memorial Day weekend, 1997. A sea of cars streams out of New York City and heads south on the always-congested I-95 corridor.

Buidling Smart Infrastructure to Serve Travelers and System Managers

No single technology "fix" can meet America's growing demand for and changing patterns of travel. Although each intelligent transportation systems (ITS) product mobility or services has its unique merits, it is important that they are seamlessly united to support multimodalism and intermodalism in metropolitan and rural areas and on interstate corridors.

The ITS Professional Capacity Building Program

"President Clinton has made education his number one priority. In transportation, we have always understood the need to master new skills.

NHI Charts New Course for The Future

Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater presents Julio Cesar Caballero, director of the Argentinian Portland Cement Institute (Instituto de Cemento Portland Argentino), with a plaque, making his organization a permanent Certified Technology Transfer center of the Pan American Institute of Highways on Sept. 5, 1995.

Road Safety Audits: Scanning for 'Gold' Down Under

For more than 100 years, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its predecessors have recognized that the United States is not the source of every good idea -- that there is much to be learned from observing the way other countries solve their highway-related problems.

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