There are many little-used approaches that result in a better highway or bridge project. Among the benefits of such approaches are that they're faster, safer, have less impact on traffic, provide better quality, and at less cost.
Highways for LIFE provides State DOTs with funding for construction of projects using one or more innovations that the agency has rarely used previously.
The methods and priority given to the actual process for getting innovations and new technologies moved into common practice must be improved in order to accelerate their delivery. Test cases, called "vanguard technologies" have demonstrated excellent results.
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.
Innovation Inno-bits Brief, non-technical descriptions of new innovations in technology and management concepts.
As part of the Highways for LIFE (HfL) effort to get more people using innovations, in cooperation with the National
Highway Institute, HfL initiated a series of monthly
web conferences. Each 90-minute web conference focuses on a different innovation and includes a panel of speakers
from throughout the highway community who are recognized experts in the particular innovation. We bring together users
of these innovations to share their experiences and the lessons they learned and then answer questions from the
participants.
Precast Bent System for Use in High Seismic Regions This webinar has been postponed until the final reports and design examples are available. We anticipate it to be rescheduled sometime between December 2012 and February 2013.
Concrete Blog: A recent UDOT showcase demonstrated a quick and effective way to repair concrete pavement using precast panels.
Training in Technology Deployment
Want to learn more about how to go about successfully deploying an innovation? Highways for LIFE, working with the National Highway Institute, has developed a training course designed to provide you with the necessary tools get that new technology out there and in use. Called, "Leap not Creep, Accelerating Innovation Implementation," the course uses both in-class and web-based training. For more details, see http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/training/course_detail.aspx?num=FHWA-NHI-134073&topicnum=134.
Spotlight Videos
Get the lowdown on several highway innovations through the medium of video. These short videos describe the tools or practices and show them being used on construction projects.
Innovations
