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Editor's Notes

In many ways, life is like baseball. Although we'd prefer all the pitches (opportunities) to be "right down the middle," every good hitter has to be able to hit a curve ball.

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

Internet Watch

You have Internet access at home. You have it at the office. You can even stroll to your local cybercafé‚ and read your e-mail while sipping your skim latte. But soon, high-tech, Web-savvy, Americans will have access to the Internet -- you guessed it -- in their cars.

New Courses Offered

Highway Materials Engineering (#13123) presents applied knowledge in highway engineering materials and quality control. This six-week course will be offered January 29-March 16, 2001, at the University of Nevada in Reno for a fee of $4000.

Recent Publications

Below are brief descriptions of reports recently published by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Research, Development, and Technology.

Conferences/Special Events Calendar

September 2000

Sep 5-8 2000

Post-Earthquake Highway Response and Recovery Seminar

Illinois DOT, Missouri DOT, Missouri FHWA Division Office, Missouri and Illinois State Emergency Management Agencies

St. Louis, Mo.

Donald Neumann

(573) 636-7104

Sep 5-9 2000

5th International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control

TRB, Virginia DOT

Roanoke, Va.

Perry Cogburn

(804) 786-6824

Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Structures Can Carry The Load

Four years ago, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) research geologist Michael Adams successfully smashed the world’s record for load capacity and applied pressure on a geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) structure with the 5.5-meter- (18-foot-) tall bridge pier that he designed on the grounds of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Va.