Articles in this Issue
Prefabricated bridges deliver quality, safety, and savings
For highway agencies, the use of prefabricated bridge elements and systems, ranging from substructures
to entire bridges, is proving to be not only a best practice but good business.
DC Streets: Innovation yields results
In July 2000, the District of Columbia
embarked on the first urban, performance-based asset management
project in the United States, known
as "DC Streets."
Highway quality takes center stage at summit
The goals of starting and advancing State quality initiatives and improving training for highway workers brought more than 80 participants to the National Partnership for Highway Quality (NPHQ) Summit, held November 16-17, 2004, in Dallas, Texas.
Concrete Pavement Technology Program introduces new and improved tools for pavements
Since 1999, the Federal Highway
Administration's (FHWA) Concrete
Pavement Technology Program
(CPTP) has conducted
research on improved methods of using
concrete pavement in the construction,
reconstruction, and repair of Federal-aid
highways.
Highway technology calendar
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