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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 VideosGet 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. |
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Bridge Bent System for Seismic Regions  |
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Automated Pavement Marker Placement System 
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Full Depth UHPC Waffle Bridge Deck Panels  |
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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 .wmv (08:18, 95 mb)
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.
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.
A Guide to Developing Marketing Research for Highway Innovations
This guide addresses how to use marketing research to deploy technologies and how it has been used for understanding public perception of the organization.
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.
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.
March/April 2013
Innovator, published by the Federal Highway Administration Highways for LIFE program, advances implementation of innovative technologies and processes in the highway industry. Its audience is transportation professionals in highway agencies, trade and research groups, academia and the private sector, and the driving public.
Kathleen Bergeron
Highways for LIFE
202-366-5508
kathleen.bergeron@dot.gov
Communication Tools