In Memoriam: Norman Y. Mineta
14th U.S. Secretary of Transportation
1931 - 2022
by Richard Weingroff / FHWA News 2022
1931 - 2022
by Richard Weingroff / FHWA News 2022
Horizontal curves account for more than 25 percent of fatal crashes and the average crash rate for curves is approximately three times higher than tangent segments. Transportation agencies have a number of horizontal curve safety countermeasures at their disposal to improve the safety of...
By Chad Thompson
FHWA has trained entry-level employees through a centrally administered, multi-year training program since what seems like the dawn of time (actually 1905). However, the modern engineer-training program began at the end of World War II in 1946. While we were all...