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New Pavement Design Guide Available for Testing
The new Mechanistic-Empirical (M-E) Pavement Design Guide and accompanying software are now available in a review version for testing and evaluation by highway agencies and others worldwide.

Scanning Tour Showcases a Prefabricated Future
From whole bridges that can be completely built off site and moved into place to full-depth prefabricated concrete bridge decks, participants in a recent international scanning tour got a glimpse of a future that not only looks prefabricated, but delivers projects at significantly accelerated speed.

A New Support System for Winter Maintenance
Keeping roads clear of snow and ice is a complex and demanding task for highway agencies, particularly in an era of tight budgets, increased traffic volume, and high customer expectations. Forecasting and meteorological information aids in this task, but there is often not enough of a link between the weather information available and the decisions made by winter maintenance managers.

Advancing Seismic Engineering the Virtual Way
Keeping the Nation's bridges durable and safe is the goal of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) seismic "Virtual" Team (SVT).

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Excellence in Highway Design 2004
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Excellence in Highway Design Awards Program recognizes outstanding examples of highways, bridges, pedestrian facilities, roadside facilities, and other facets of roadway design. The 2004 honorees encompass everything from historic bridges to stunning modern structures to urban greenways, all contributing not only to safety and mobility but to the aesthetics of the natural world around them.

 

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