FHWA Resource Center
Technology Deployment
Priority, Market-Ready Technologies and Innovations
2006 List
The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Research & Technology Leadership Team endorses six new priority, market-ready technologies and innovations (T&Is). This list continues to fulfill our Agency commitment established in the FHWA Corporate Master Plan for Research and Deployment of Technology & Innovation to identify market-ready T&Is.
CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Accelerated Construction Technology Transfer (ACTT)*-This undertaking promotes creative techniques to reduce construction time and enhance quality and safety. Contact: james.sorenson@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1333; jerry.blanding@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-2253
FINANCE
Asset Management Guide-This guide illustrates asset management principles and identifies techniques and methods for adopting the decisionmaking framework in transportation agencies. Contact: stephen.gaj@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1336
ENVIRONMENT
Dispute Resolution Guidance for Environmental Streamlining-These procedures present strategies for interagency collaborative problem solving during the transportation development and environmental review process. Contact: ruth.rentch@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-2034
GEOTECHNICAL & HYDRAULICS
Continuous Flight Augered (CFA) Piles-This technology is characterized by the drilling of a hollow-stem auger into the ground, pumping grout or concrete into the hole, and installing reinforcement in the pile. This eliminates the need for a temporary casing. Contact: silas.nichols@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-2460
Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Geofoam-This lightweight material can be used as fill behind walls and other support structures. Contact: silas.nichols@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-2460
OPERATIONS
511 Traveler Information-This easy-to-remember, three-digit telephone number is available to State and local transportation agencies nationwide so that agencies can provide information readily about highway and transit conditions to travelers by telephone. Contact: robert.rupert@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-2194; mac.lister@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3532
DYNASMART-P-This traffic analysis tool can integrate travel demand models into the planning process. The tool can evaluate intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies and provide traffic operations data for air quality analysis. Contact: henry.lieu@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-493-3273; john.tolle@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3541
Intelligent Transportation System Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)-This tool can predict the costs and benefits of ITS investments and provide data and information that enable agencies to analyze ITS operational improvements. Contact: robin.mayhew@fhwa.dot.gov, 360-753-9416; james.sturdevant@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3552
Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)-The MDSS tool uses weather forecasting and data fusion techniques to provide maintenance managers with precise surface condition forecasts and treatment recommendations, thereby reducing maintenance costs for winter operations. Contact: paul.pisano@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1301; ray.murphy@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3517
QuickZone-This user-friendly computer software tool enables users to estimate and analyze the length of queues and delays in work zones. Contact: deborah.curtis@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-493-3267; daniel.grate@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3912
PAVEMENTS & MATERIALS
Air Void Analyzer (AVA)*-This technology can be used to provide real-time evaluation for measuring air content, specific surface, and the spacing factor of fresh portland cement concrete. Contact: gary.crawford@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1286; angel.correa@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3907
Pavement Smoothness Methodologies-The new pavement smoothness specification covers smoothness test methods, smoothness equipment specifications, and equipment certification programs. Contact: mark.swanlund@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1323; robert.orthmeyer@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3533
PLANNING
Highway Economic Requirements System, State Version (HERS-ST)-This software model evaluates the implications of alternative programs and policies on the condition, performance, and user cost level associated with highway systems. Contact: robert.mooney@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4657
Improved Decisionmaking Using Geographic Information Systems-A software program that enables manipulation, analysis, and display of geographically referenced data. Contact: mark.sarmiento@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4828; ben.williams@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3671
Transportation, Economics, and Land Use System (TELUS)-This information-management and decision-support system helps State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations prepare their annual transportation improvement programs and statewide transportation improvement programs. Contact: bruce.spear@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-8870; lisa.randall@fhwa.dot.gov, 720-963-3209
STRUCTURES
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP)*-This material can be used to repair cracks in overhead sign supports by wrapping the support with fiber-reinforced material. Contact: benjamin.tang@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4592; lou.triandafilou@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-3648
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Rating of Structures-The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Rating bridge specification provides for more uniform levels of safety, which should lead to superior serviceability and long-term maintainability. Contact: firas.ibrahim@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4598; thomas.saad@fhwa.dot.gov, 708-283-3521
Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems (PFBES)*-These systems minimize traffic impacts of bridge construction, improve work zone safety, and make construction less disruptive by minimizing the necessary lane closures, detours, and narrow lane uses. Contact: vasant.mistry@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4599; raj.ailaney@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-2542
SAFETY & DESIGN
Cable Median Barriers*-Cable median barriers are effective mechanisms for preventing fatal and disabling crashes and are more forgiving than traditional concrete and metal beam barriers. Contact: nick.artimovich@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-1331; frank.julian@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3689
PEDSAFE-This online, interactive system enables users to "diagnose" a pedestrian-related issue based on site characteristics and to formulate potential solutions that improve conditions for pedestrians within the public right-of-way. Contact: tamara.redmon@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-4077; aida.berkovitz@fhwa.dot.gov, 415-744-2614
Red Light Cameras-The traditional enforcement of violations for running red lights are automated by using camera systems at light-controlled intersections that detect offending motorists, capture images of license plates, and issue citations by mail.
Contact: louisa.ward@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-2218; craig.allred@fhwa.dot.gov, 720-963-3236
Road Safety Audits (RSA)*-RSAs improve transportation safety by using an independent audit team to conduct a formal safety performance examination of an existing or future road or intersection. Contact: louisa.ward@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-2218; craig.allred@fhwa.dot.gov, 720-963-3236
Roundabouts-This design treatment is a circular intersection that requires entering vehicles to yield to existing traffic in the circulatory roadway. Contact: ed.rice@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-9064; joe.bared@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-493-3314; mark.doctor@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3732
Rumble Strips-Shoulder rumble strips are continuously grooved indentations in roadway shoulders that provide audible warnings and physical vibrations to alert drivers that their vehicles are leaving the roadway. Contact: debra.chappell@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-366-0087; frank.julian@fhwa.dot.gov, 404-562-3689
* Denotes an AASHTO Technology Implementation Group approved technology.
Additional Resources
AASHTO Technology Innovation Group.
To request additional copies of this publication, contact:
carin.michel@fhwa.dot.gov, 410-962-2530
tamara.mccrae@fhwa.dot.gov, 202-493-3382
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