Sam White Bridge Move Timelapse

Sam White Bridge Move Timelapse YouTube (4:44)

Sam White Lane, previously over I-15, was also a two-span continuous steel girder bridge. It was moved as single unit on March 26, 2011. Total bridge length is 354 feet, each span is 177 feet. Moved bridge weight is 3.8 million pounds.

Driving Innovation 2010

Driving Innovation 2010 .wmv (08:18, 95 mb)

A Daunting Challenge

A Daunting Challenge .wmv (12:10, 126mb)

Right now, the highway system in this country is facing a perfect storm: At the same time that budgets are tighter than ever, much of the highway system is well beyond its useful life and in dire need of a major renewal effort. Yet, even if funds were available for such an effort using traditional methods, the resulting congestion would be enormous. This video offers some thoughtful answers to the challenge of that perfect storm.

Phillipston Heavy Lift Bridge Replacement YouTube (5:40)

Watch MassDOT move the Phillipston Route 2 bridge down Route 2A into its final location and witness how innovation can dramatically reduce construction-related congestion and impacts to communities.

RSA Toolkit

Road Safety Audit Toolkit for Federal Land Management Agencies and Tribal Governments

The FHWA Offices of Safety and Federal Lands Highway are pleased to jointly announce the availability of the new document entitled Road Safety Audit Toolkit for Federal Land Management Agencies and Tribal Governments.

TR News

Vanguard Technologies on the Move

The March-April 2010 issue of TR News, a publication of the Transportation Research Board, features a cover story on Vanguard Technologies by Highways for LIFE team leader Byron Lord.  Entitled, "Vanguard Technologies on the Move: Delivering Innovations into the Mainstream of Practice," the article provides several examples of innovations that were deployed using the Highways for LIFE approach.

• A State of the Practice Guide to Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems
• Accelerating Construction with EPS Geofoam?
• Accelerating Innovation Implementation
• Accelerating Innovation Implementation
• FHWA Launches Information Exchange on Bridges
• FHWA to Award Grants to Spur Highway Technology Innovation
• FHWA Webinar: Rapid Repair with Precast Concrete Pavement Technology
• HfL Announces 2006 Projects
• HfL Introduces Technology Partnerships
• Highways for LIFE's 2007 Projects Showcase Innovation
• Highways for LIFE Changes the Way Today's Infrastructure is Built
• Lifting the Graves Avenue Bridge to Success
• Nothing But Net: TRB Annual Meeting to Feature Highways for LIFE Success Stories
• Partnering for Highway Technology
• Performance Contracting: A New Way of Doing Business?
• Prefabricated Bridge Systems: A Decisionmaking Tool
• Road Safety Audits: A ProActive Strategy for Making Your Roads Safer
• Seeking the Best Solutions with Highways for LIFE
• Taking a Look at Two-Lift Concrete Pavement
• The ABCs of a Rapid Bridge Replacement in Utah

• What Does It Take to Change How We Do Business?
• Road Construction: Self-prescribed
  Michigan DOT used performance contracting and reduced construction time from 127 days to 94 days, extended the expected service life of the pavement from 11 years to 20 years, and created a total savings of $1,651,675 over the now longer, 20-year service life of the roadway. (Roads & Bridges, March 2001)
• Inside is an IDOT employee newsletter that contains additional information regarding this project
• Public Roads Article - January/February 2010
• Accelerating Innovation to Meet America's Innovation Challenges: A Report on the Highways for LIFE Program, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C., 2009.
• "Bringing Innovations to Market," Public Roads, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., January/February 2009 (written for Julie Zirlin, Highways for LIFE program coordinator), http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/09janfeb/04.cfm.
• "FHWA Funds Test of Work Zone Safety Innovation," Transportation Builder, American Road & Transportation Builders Association, Washington, D.C., May/June 2008, http://www.artba.org/artba_publications_advertising/pdf/TB_May_June_2008_Feat_2.pdf.
• "Asphalt Contractor Technology Partnerships," ForConstructionPros.com, Fort Atkinson, Wis., June 2008, www.forconstructionpros.com/online/Asphalt-News/Asphalt-Contractor-Technology-Partnerships/41FCP10363.
• "New Technology Automates Aggregate Imaging," Aggregates Manager, Des Plaines, Ill., May 2008, www.aggman.com/articles/may08b.htm.
• "FHWA Industry Partnerships Test Work Zone Safety Innovations," Signal, American Traffic Safety Services Association, Fredericksburg, Va., Spring 2008, http://www.atssa.com/galleries/clean_titles/Spring2008.pdf.
• "Big Part of LIFE," Roads & Bridges, Arlington Heights, Ill., July 2007 (written for J. Richard Capka, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration), http://www.roadsbridges.com/Big-part-of-LIFE-article8349.