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Highways and Bridges on The Brink of The New Century

During the 1990s, lawmakers decided to channel more money into the nation’s highways and bridges — a policy that has now begun to pay off with better pavement, improved bridges, and higher levels of safety.

LANI and The Leimert Park Project

How do you rebuild a neighborhood? That simple question has caused hot debate for much of the last century as residents, business owners, planners, and government leaders wrestled with the problems brought on by enormous changes in urban areas worn-out infrastructure, rising crime rates, and spiraling economic indicators in the inner cities and unfettered growth in suburbia.

The National IVI Meeting

The National IVI (Intelligent Vehicle Initiative) Meeting will be held on July 18 and 19, 2000, at the Ronald Reagan Building and Trade Center in Washington, D.C.

Enhancing Pavement Smoothness

Back in the "good old days" and simpler times of the early 20th century, the traveling public was happy just to have a paved surface to keep them out of the mud.

Strategic Plan for Transportation and Air Quality Research, 2000-2010

Adapted from a paper of the same title written by Mike Savonis of the Federal Highway Administration on behalf of the Transportation and Air Quality Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The original paper was published by TRB as part of Transportation in the New Millennium, State of the Art and Future Directions, Perspectives From Transportation Research Board Standing Committees.

Atlanta 'Conforms' to Clean Air Requirements

The Atlanta region has experienced extraordinary increases in population and development over the last two decades. Between 1980 and 1999, the population of the Atlanta region grew by 64 percent with 1.3 million new residents.