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Exciting Opportunity for ITS Work

Advances in information technologies are radically changing the way Americans provide business services, manufacture products, educate, recreate, and communicate.

See It Before It's Built

Imagine your client is the park superintendent for a national park. To help move visitors in and out of the area, a new road needs to be built to augment the existing one.

Roadway Lighting Revisited

The cost of nighttime crashes is high. Even though only 25 percent of the vehicle-miles traveled occur at night, nearly 50 percent of fatalities occur during those hours.

The Man Who Loved Roads

One of the little-known quirks of history is that Harry Truman could have been the Father of the Interstate System.

Benefitting From LTPP-A State's Perspective

Pavements are where the proverbial rubber meets the road. For more than a decade now, the States, Federal Government, and the Canadian provinces have invested in the Long Term Pavement Performance Program (LTPP), a 20-year pavement research project.

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.

Editor's Notes

First, I want to thank the editors of Public Roads for allowing us to "commandeer" an issue of the magazine and devote it to telling you about the national Concrete Pavement Technology Program (CPTP) and some of the important projects being conducted by the CPTP team.

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Government agencies frequently issue invitations for individuals and organizations to provide comments on laws, regulations, ordinances, and reports by a specific date.