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National parks are successfully deploying innovative, transportation-related technologies through a partnership between the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the U.S. Department of Interior's National Park Service (NPS). Through its three Federal Lands Highway (FLH) Divisions, FHWA is responsible for engineering safe and environmentally sensitive roadways and bridges at national parks and on other federal lands. This article presents highlights of key technologies that the FLH Divisions have deployed or plan to deploy in national parks. Among these technologies are electronic enhancements such as Advanced Traveler Information Systems, Global Positioning System technology to monitor buses, and intelligent transportation systems; grassy pull-offs; software customizing; FLH's Road Inventory Program software; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; high-performance concrete; materials recycling; seismic reflection-holography technique for assessing ground conditions around an existing tunnel and a proposed parallel facility; an historic wall management program; and a time domain reflectometry system of sensors for remote road monitoring, air quality monitoring and other uses.

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p. 4-13

2004-7

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Advanced traveler information systems; Aesthetics; Communications; Global Positioning System; High performance concrete; Historic preservation; Intelligent transportation systems; National parks; Partnerships; Recycled materials; Retaining walls; Safety; Software; Technological innovations; Time domain reflectometers

National Park Service; U.S. Federal Highway Administration

Grassy pull-offs; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar; Seismic reflection holography

Highways; History; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Sep 20 2004 12:00AM

• DESIGNING A NEW VEHICLE FOR NATIONAL PARKS: LOW-FLOOR, ALTERNATIVE-FUEL BUS IN TESTING
• GUIDING TOURISTS TO AND THROUGH THE PARKS: STUDY ASSESSES TRAVELER INFORMATION NEEDS
• INTRODUCTION: TRANSPORTATION, NATIONAL PARKS, AND PUBLIC LANDS: DEFINING THE CHALLENGE, FOSTERING RESEARCH AND PARTNERSHIPS
• MAKING TRACKS IN WILDLIFE REFUGES
• POINT OF VIEW: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: THE PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE IN NATIONAL PARKS
• RESEARCH PAYS OFF: STONE INTERLAYER PAVEMENT SYSTEM: EXTENDING THE SERVICE LIFE OF LOW-VOLUME ROADS
• RIDING WITH JAMMERS
• SCHOLARS GROW IN THE NATIONAL PARKS
• TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIPS IN THE PARKS: COOPERATIVE INITIATIVES SERVE VISITORS, PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT
• TRB SPECIAL REPORT: A CONCEPT FOR A NATIONAL FREIGHT DATA PROGRAM