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Research Portfolio | Ongoing Research | Innovation Life Cycle | Roadmaps | Deployment
Priority Technologies and Innovations
2008 List
Memorandum
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Research & Technology Leadership Team endorses four new priority, market-ready technologies and innovations (T&Is). This list continues to fulfill our Agency
commitment established in the FHWA Corporate Master Plan for Research and Deployment of Technology &
Innovation to identify market-ready T&Is.
Construction and Project Management
Accelerated Construction Technology Transfer (ACTT)* - This undertaking promotes creative techniques to reduce construction time and enhance quality and safety. Contact: james.sorenson@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1333; jerry.blanding@fhwa.dot.gov, (410) 962-2253
 Construction Analysis for Pavement
Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS) - This
software identifies optimal rehabilitation strategies
to balance the construction schedule with inconvenience to driver and transportation agency costs. Contact: james.sorenson@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1333
Finance
Asset Management Guide - This guide illustrates asset management principles and identifies techniques and methods for adopting the decisionmaking framework in transportation agencies. Contact: stephen.gaj@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1336; thay.bishop@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3695
Geotechnical and Hydraulics
Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) Piles - This technology is characterized by the drilling of a hollow-stem auger into the ground, pumping grout or concrete into the hole, and installing reinforcement in the pile. This eliminates the need for a temporary casing. Contact: silas.nichols@fhwa.dot.gov, (410) 962-2460
Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Geofoam - This lightweight material can be used as fill behind walls and other support structures. Contact: silas.nichols@fhwa.dot.gov, (410) 962-2460
Operations
511 Traveler Information - This easy-to-remember, three-digit telephone number is available to State and local transportation agencies nationwide so that agencies can provide information readily about highway and transit conditions to travelers by telephone. Contact: robert.rupert@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-2194; mac.lister@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283-3532
ACS-Lite - This cost effective technology improves efficiency and prolongs the effectiveness of traffic signal timing by updating critical timing parameters in response to current traffic conditions. Contact: eddie.curtis@fhwa.dot.gov,
(404) 562-3920
DYNASMART-P - This traffic analysis tool can integrate travel demand models into the planning process. The tool can evaluate intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies and provide traffic operations data for air quality analysis. Contact: henry.lieu@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 493-3273; john.tolle@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283-3541
ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) - This tool can predict the costs and benefits of ITS investments and provide data and information that enable agencies to analyze ITS operational improvements. Contact: harlan.miller@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-0847; john.halkias@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-2183; james.sturdevant@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283-3552
Pavements and Materials
Air Void Analyzer (AVA)* - This technology can be used to provide real-time evaluation for measuring air content, specific surface, and the spacing factor of fresh portland cement concrete. Contact: gary.crawford@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1286; angel.correa@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3907
Pavement Smoothness Methodologies - The new pavement smoothness specification covers smoothness test methods, smoothness equipment specifications, and equipment certification programs. Contact: mark.swanland@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1323; robert.orthmeyer@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283-3533
Planning
Highway Economic Requirements System, State Version (HERS-ST) - This software model evaluates the implications of alternative programs and policies on the condition, performance, and user cost level associated with highway systems. Contact: robert.mooney@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4657
Improved Decisionmaking Using Geographic Information Systems - A software program that enables manipulation, analysis, and display of geographically referenced data. Contact: mark.sarmiento@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4828; ben.williams@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3671
Transportation, Economics, and Land Use System (TELUS) - This information-management and decision-support system helps State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations prepare their annual transportation improvement programs and statewide transportation improvement programs. Contact: rob.ritter@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-8870; lisa.randall@fhwa.dot.gov, (720) 963-3209
Structures
Bridge and Tunnel Security - This assessment tool provides resources to help owners make their critical bridges and tunnels more secure. Contact: steve.ernst@fhwa.dot.gov , (202) 366-4619; shay.burrows@fhwa.dot.gov , (410) 962-6791
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP)* - This material can be used to repair cracks in overhead sign supports by wrapping the support with fiber-reinforced material. Contact: benjamin.tang@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4592; lou.triandafilou@fhwa.dot.gov, (410) 962-3648
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Rating of Structures - The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Rating bridge specification provides for more uniform levels of safety, which should lead to superior serviceability and long-term maintainability. Contact:
firas.ibrahim@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4598; thomas.saad@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283-3521
Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems (PFBES)* - These systems minimize traffic impacts of bridge construction, improve work zone safety, and make construction less disruptive by minimizing the necessary lane closures, detours, and narrow lane uses. Contact: vasant.mistry@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-4599; raj.ailaney@fhwa.dot.gov, (410) 962-2542
Safety and Design
Cable Median Barriers* - Cable median barriers are effective mechanisms for preventing fatal and disabling crashes and are more forgiving than traditional concrete and metal beam barriers. Contact: frank.julian@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3689
PEDSAFE - This online, interactive system enables users to "diagnose" a pedestrian-related issue based on site characteristics and to formulate potential solutions that improve conditions for pedestrians within the public right-of-way. Contact: rudolph.umbs@fhwa.dot.gov, (708) 283- 3548
Road Safety Audits (RSA)* - RSAs improve transportation safety by using an independent audit team to conduct a formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection. Contact: craig.allred@fhwa.dot.gov, (720) 963-3236
Roundabouts - This design treatment is a circular intersection that requires entering vehicles to yield to existing traffic in the circulatory roadway. Contact: mark.doctor@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3732
Rumble Strips - Shoulder rumble strips are continuously grooved indentations in roadway shoulders that provide audible warnings and physical vibrations to alert drivers that their vehicles are leaving the roadway. Contact: frank.julian@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3689
USLIMITS - This Web-based expert advisor system is designed to assist practitioners in determining appropriate speed limits in speed zones. Contact: davey.warren@fhwa.dot.gov,
(202) 366-4668; rudolph.umbs@fhwa.dot.gov,
(708) 283-3548
* Denotes an AASHTO Technology Implementation Group approved technology.
Removed From 2006 List:
- Dispute Resolution Guidance for Environmental Streamlining
- Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)
- QuickZone
- Right Light Cameras
Additional Resources
FHWA Corporate Research and Technology (R&T)
FHWA Resource Center
AASHTO Technology Innovation Group
To request additional copies of this publication, contact:
tamara.mccrae@fhwa.dot.gov,
(202) 493-3382
This page last modified on 04/23/08
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