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Project Pegasus: TxDOT Accelerates the Reconstruction of Dallas Interstate
With the population of Dallas, Texas, expected to double over the next 20 years, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) faces the challenge of providing the transportation infrastructure that will support that growth. Their answer? Project Pegasus. This initiative aims to transform the two major Interstate freeways that serve downtown Dallas, redesigning portions of IH 30 and IH 35E.

Texas Workshops Highlight High Performance Concrete Paving Software
More than 300 representatives from State and local highway agencies, contractors, and consulting engineering firms in Texas were introduced to the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) HIPERPAV (HIgh PERformance PAVing) software at workshops held this past summer in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.

Awards Honor the Best and Brightest in Highway Quality
Innovations in highway quality from Arizona to New Jersey were honored in September in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the presentation of the National Partnership for Highway Quality’s (NPHQ) 2003 National Achievement Awards.

FHWA Bridge Management Information Lab: Making the Most of the Nation's Bridge Data
The sudden catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Kanauga, Ohio, in 1967 focused the Nation’s attention on the deterioration of the national bridge network. To improve safety and stem the tide of deterioration, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) established the National Bridge Inspection Program in 1970.

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