Public Roads

Value Engineering: An Incredible Return on Investment

Value engineering (VE) may be only common sense, but it's a concept that can pay some uncommonly big dividends.

Managing Resources and Preparing for The Y2k Weekend

Almost everyone in the transportation community is very familiar with the year 2000 problem, or "Y2K." Computer systems around the world have been tested, and many Y2K-related problems have been identified and repaired.

FHWA's Traffic Research Lab (Trel): Searching For Keys To Unlock The Nation's Gridlock

Traffic engineers in Des Moines, Iowa, had a problem. A freeway diamond interchange built to accommodate modest traffic flows apparently was no longer working.

Public Roads - Sept/Oct 1999

Editor's Notes

As we close out the 20th century, it is interesting to look back to near the beginning of the century and see that while circumstances are different now, the basic problems of highway officials and engineers are strikingly similar.

Internet Watch

We're still learning the variety of valuable ways that we can use the Internet. Yet, as wonderful as the prospect of global communication is and as excited as we are to have high bandwidth at our desktops, the Internet's ultimate value to us will be measured in how well we can integrate it into our business process.

Delivering Solutions for a World in Motion

These are just a few of the comments that previous attendees have said about ITS Software Acquisition (#13619), a new ITS course that started this spring