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"Doing
Futures" - Creating a Preferred Future in Highway Safety
by: Lorena
G. Beauchesne
The Federal Highway Administration has started a process to identify
the actions it must take now and in the future to "create" the
future it desires.
Improving
Safety Through Peer Exchanges
by:
Barbara Kenefake and Ayman Smadi
National peer exchanges, began in 1994 by the FHWA's Office of Motor
Carriers, help to identify the "best practices" related to selected
specific elements of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance.
National Transportation Week, May 16-22
by:
Karen Haas Martin
From
May 16-22, the transportation community will celebrate National Transportation
Week to increase public awareness of transportation and to educate the
public about transportation issues.
An Immediate Payoff From FHWA's NDE Initiative
by:
Adrian T. Ciolko and W. Phillip Yen
Advanced
nondestructive evaluation and nondestructive flaw-detection technologies
played a vital role in the successful emergency structural evaluation
of the Cochrane Bridge in Mobile County, Ala..
Designing Highway With Older Drivers in Mind
by:
Elizabeth Alicandri, Mark Robinson, and Tim Penney
Aging
affects a wide variety of skills that are critical to safe driving. Indeed,
studies have shown that older drivers have high rates of crashes, injuries,
and fatalities on a per-mile-driven basis. As the percentage of Americans
aged 65 and older continues to grow, this significant problem grows in
magnitude.
FHWA's
Driver Performance Laboratory
by:
Kathryn Wochinger, Cathy Emery, and Elizaabeth Alicandri
The Driver Performance Laboratory at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research
Center investigates issues of driver performance related to highway and
traffic engineering and to the design of in-vehicle information systems.
The National Driver History Initiative
by:
Brian M. McLaughlin
FHWA
and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are sponsoring
a driver history pilot project in nine states to improve systems for recording
traffic convictions and for exchanging driver safety information among
courts, police, and licensing agencies.
What's a Work Zone?
by:
J. Dan Turner
Currently,
no nationally recognized definitions of work zone or work-zone accidents
exist. FHWA is involved in an effort to develop a standardized definition
of work zone to enable researchers to assess the current state of work-zone
safety and to recommend possible countermeasures to eliminate or mitigate
safety problems.
The National Work-Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
by:
T. Peter Ruane and Gerald Ullman
Opened
in February 1998, the clearinghouse has the most comprehensive library
of information on work-zone safety..
Safety Is Our North Star
The
outcomes of the National Transportation Safety Conference, held March
2-3, 1999, are the beginning of a transportation safety action plan and
a memorandum of understanding signed by government officials and chiefs
of industry, trade, labor, and law enforcement, pledging to make safety
a priority in their organizations.
1999 International Highway Transportation Safety
Week, June 1-5
The
aims of the activities
of this special week are to promote the message that all drivers are responsible
for ensuring safe highways and to educate the public about the efforts
to improve truck and bus safety.
Human Factors Recommendations for TMC Design
by:
Nazemeh Sobhi and Michael Kelly
An ITS-class traffic management center (TMC) incorporates a large number of sensors to collect and communicate traffic-flow data. They may employ data fusion and automated information processing to combine and translate the information into a form that can enhance operators' knowledge of the status of the roadway environment.
FHWA's International Geotechnical Engineering Scan
by:
Thomas K. Saad and Jerry A. DiMaggio
In
March 1998, a team of geotechnical and structural engineers from FHWA,
state highway agencies, and industry went to Canada and Europe to discuss
practices for implementing load and resistance factor design methods;
to investigate innovative contracting practices; and to identify new or
improved mechanically stabilized earth-wall technologies, ground-improvement
methods, and in situ testing procedures.
Does Asset Management Deserve a Closer Look?
by: Dena M.
Gray-Fisher
The
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved
an asset management strategic plan that outlines AASTHO's activities to
advance asset management among the organization's members.
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