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- Foe of tolls on I-80 asks an SEC inquiry
- State Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate comments by Pennsylvania Turnpike chief executive officer Joseph Brimmeier about placing tolls on Interstate 80. Corman, an opponent of the tolls and a champion of the trucking industry, asked if Brimmeier violated securities law...
- Research articles 2007-11-21
- Solutions to the traffic snarl: better information—and the means to deliver it—underpin USDOT's efforts to ease congestion through operational and technological improvements
- Approximately half of all congestion can be traced to recurring causes such as physical bottlenecks. The other half stems from nonrecurring causes, such as crashes, work zones, and weather. In May 2006, the U.S. Department of Transportation's USDOT National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network (also known as...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Perspective on freight congestion: national efforts and stakeholder collaborations offer tools and resources for addressing the challenges of moving goods on the Nation's busy highways
- Virtually everything manufactured, bought, or consumed in the United States at some point is transported by truck. The American Trucking Associations has documented that if truck movement stopped in America, within the first 24 hours, service stations would begin to run out of fuel, manufacturers using just-in-time manufacturing would develop...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Delivering Durability
- New concrete pavement manual bridges gap between recent research and common practice The new Integrated Materials and Construction Practices for Concrete Pavement: A State-of-the Practice Manual IMCP Manual (Fig. 1) is the product of a multi-year effort funded by the Federal Highway Administration FHWA and executed at Iowa...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Coordinating Section 4 compliance: given SAFETEA-LU's changes to the law for evaluating projects that involve publicly owned property, consultation is the key more than ever
- Federally funded transportation projects that involve the use of Section 4f property (publicly owned public park, recreation area, or designated wildlife and waterfowl refuge land or significant historic property) must undergo a formal evaluation and approval process that can be long and complex. Transportation use of these properties is subject...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Saving a national treasure
- FHWA and the National Park Service embark on a monumental restoration of Montana's historic Going-to-the-Sun Road. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Going-to-the-Sun Road in Montana's Glacier National Park was once described as "the most beautiful piece of mountain road in the world." Those words, spoken by park Superintendent Eivind Scoyen...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Senior mobility series: article 4 marking the way to greater safety
- Bigger and brighter signs, more conspicuous signals, and wider stripes are among the innovations making highways safer for older road users. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The older driving population in the United States has grown continually and is expected to increase even more as the baby-boom generation reaches retirement. What...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Sweet-talking the fourth branch: the influence of interest group comments on federal agency rulemaking.
- Students of politics and public administration have scrutinized the responsiveness of the largely unelected bureaucracy to its many political constituencies for over a century. The vast majority of this work identifies the formal and informal powers that Congress and the president hold over the U.S. federal...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- On the road to Environmental Excellence
- FHWA honors the 2005 award-winning transportation projects and the people who protect or enhance natural and community resources. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An increasing number of transportation projects are yielding innovative approaches that not only improve highway safety but also protect or enhance the natural and cultural environments. The scale...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- FHWA Endorses 11400 South Project.(Federal Highway Administration )(Brief Article)
- Staff Salt Lake City-- The Utah Department of Transportation has received a favorable record of decision from the Federal Highway Administration on the 11400 South environmental impact statement that will allow UDOT to move forward with the first phase of this...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- HPC Symposium Draws International Attention
- More than 90 papers presented on high-strength/high-performance concrete The Seventh International Symposium on Utilization of High-Strength/High-Performance Concrete HPC drew attendees from 34 countries to Arlington, VA, June 20-24, 2005. The American Concrete Institute, the Federal Highway Administration FHWA of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the fédération internationale...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Peters to Step Down at FHWA; Capka Named Interim Chief
- Mary Peters is to step down as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the end of July, the Department of Transportation announced last week.DOT said that J. Richard Capka, FHWA's deputy administrator, would take over for Peters as acting administrator at that time.Peters told Transportation secretary Norman Mineta of...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Where the dowel bars are
- A new quality-assurance tool could help engineers improve the performance of concrete pavements. Due to daily and seasonal fluctuations in temperatures, concrete slabs contract and expand, but the joints in the pavements serve to absorb these movements. The dowel bars embedded in concrete pavements transfer the load across the...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Strengthening from within: seamlessly integrating new and old materials helped strengthen a historic bridge in Washington, DC
- The twin demands of accommodating heavy traffic and ensuring the preservation of the oldest bridge in the Nation's capital proved to be manageable challenges on a recent restoration project in the historic Georgetown area of Washington, DC. When structural analyses showed that the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the Chesapeake and...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Signs show the way to cost-effective rural safety: a county in California recently showcased a low-cost and successful program for saving lives on secondary roads
- According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, rural roads--though often scenic--are actually the most dangerous roads in the Nation. In 2001, rural roads accounted for approximately 60 percent of all fatal crashes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many small secondary roads were constructed originally to follow property lines, so the...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Putting travelers in the know: providing motorists with real-time traveler information is a key way that road managers can help motorists deal with the growing traffic congestion on the nation's highways
- According to the Texas Transportation Institute TTI, unexpected congestion has a significant impact on motorists' attitudes. In its 2001 report, Traffic Congestion and Travel Reliability: How Bad Is the Situation and What Is Being Done About It?, the institute found that travelers want to know what to expect and almost...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Rustic pavements: synthetic binders could help designers create more aesthetically pleasing roadways
- Selecting a pavement color for a highway project may someday be as easy as shopping for paint. With the growing interest in context-sensitive solutions for roadways and transportation facilities, Federal and State agencies are looking for more and more opportunities to create transportation systems that respect and protect local environmental,...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- FHWA's Jerry DiMaggio contributes to major Civil Engineering textbook
- The Office of Bridge Technology's Senior Geotechnical Engineer Jerry DiMaggio had the distinguished honor of coauthoring a major section in the 5th edition of the internationally recognized Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers, recently published by McGraw-Hill. DiMaggio worked on Section 7, "Geotechnical Engineering," with Mohamad H. Hussein, from GRL Engineers,...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Accounting for megaproject dollars: efforts are underway to help improve cost estimating for major highway projects
- Megaprojects present unique challenges when it comes to estimating and managing costs. With these huge projects, which may span decades, the challenges can begin as soon as the project is conceived and often do not end until the books are closed. According to the Major Management Challenges and Program...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Resource center goes national: four FHWA regional centers become one national center operating through virtual teams that can be placed anywhere across the country
- The challenge was a section of I-10 through San Antonio, TX, where the highway was to be widened over an existing culvert that was structurally unable to support the weight of traditional embankment fills. The Texas Department of Transportation DOT was dissatisfied with the identified solution--using a reinforced concrete mat...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
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