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Title: IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY PAVES WAY TO BETTER ROADS AND BRIDGES: FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
Accession Number: 00738878
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The purpose of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), according to its primary charter, is to meet the nation's need for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation of people and goods. But the agency also embraces another mission: to be the world's leader in surface-transportation expertise and innovation. Improving and even maintaining the world's safest, most reliable, and most sophisticated surface transportation system is becoming an ever greater challenge, particularly in light of an aging infrastructure, enormous traffic loads, and increasing congestion. At the same time, economic and environmental concerns are altering the way FHWA (and states) must meet this challenge. New technology applications are the keys to success. Presented in this article is a brief overview of some of the efforts through which the agency's Research and Technology Program is providing cost-effective solutions to some highway problems through technological innovation. The efforts discussed fall within the following areas: Accident Prevention; Traffic Management; Assessment and Improvement of Infrastructure; and System Improvement.
Supplemental Notes: This article is part of a series of articles in this special issue of TR News on Benefits of Transportation Research--Part 2: The Federal Perspective. Page range: pp 10-13, 62.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Nemmers, COstensen, GPagination: 5 p.
Publication Date: 1997-5
Serial: Features: Photos
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jul 11 1997 12:00AM
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