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Lessons Learned

A major highway reconstruction in Orlando, FL, provides clues on how to streamline environmental studies.

IDAS: A Tool for Integrating Its Into The Planning Process

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have the potential to revolutionize surface transportation, but listening to all the claims of some ITS proponents, one could begin to believe that ITS will solve all our transportation problems - and maybe the common cold too.

The Man Who Changed America, Part II

President Eisenhower achieved his Grand Plan for the Interstate System with passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956—but his interest in the new highways didn't end there.

Communities of Practice

An engineer, thinking that a colleague may once have confronted a problem similar to one that has just arisen in a project, stops by the colleague's office for advice. A safety specialist in an eastern division office runs across some fascinating data on weather-related hazards and e-mails it to a friend in the Midwest with similar job responsibilities.

Middle School Students Design Future Cities

Some people don't give teenagers and preteens much credit for intelligence and creativity. But those folks have never seen the Future City Competition that is part of the activities of National Engineers Week. All of the entries in the national competition held in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 22 and 23, 2000, displayed amazing creativity and design.

A Lifeline Link

After the wake-up call of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which rocked the San Francisco Bay area in 1989, Caltrans is building what may be the strongest bridge in America.

The Partnership Initiative: A Unified Agenda for Highway Research and Technology

Advancing innovation is the mainstay of our continued journey toward creating the safest and most efficient and effective highway and intermodal transportation system in the world. Research and technological advances can ultimately make the difference between success and failure, and indeed, when safety is concerned, between life and death.