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Truck installed with an automated roadway pavement marker placement system on roadway.

Montana Demonstration Project: Innovative Culvert Rehabilitation Using Trenchless Technologies

This report documents the Montana Department of Transportation's (MDT) HfL demonstration project, which involved rehabilitation of 10 24–inch (in) (609.6–millimeter (mm)) corrugated steel pipe (CSP) culverts using innovative trenchless technologies. Read More

A gantry used to build a bridge in an environmentally sensitive area drove piles, placed pier caps and positioned girders. Photo credit: North Carolina DOT.

Innovator Issue 16

In This Issue: Showcase Demonstrates Rapid Pavement Repair, Q&A With Tom Sorel: Tapping the Power of Innovation, Highways for LIFE Presents TRB Sessions, Prefab Units Cut Construction Time on D.C. Bridge, Overhead Launching Gantry Minimizes Environmental Impact, Warm-Mix Asphalt Use Lowers Energy Costs, and Emissions. Read More

Construction workers looks on as a section of a bridge being hoisted in place by crane.

Virginia Demonstration Project

Rapid Removal and Replacement of U.S. 15/29 Bridge Over Broad Run Near Gainesville, VA. Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) HfL demonstration project, which involved accelerated removal and replacement of a bridge over a creek. Read More

Michigan Demonstration Project: Performance Contracting for Construction on M-115 in Clare County, MI

This report documents the Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) HfL demonstration project, which involved performance contracting for construction (PCfC) on M-115, a two-lane rural highway in Clare County, MI. Read More

Accelerating Innovation for the American Driving Experience. The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009

About Highways for LIFE

The purpose of Highways for LIFE (HfL) is to advance Longer–lasting highway infrastructure using Innovations to accomplish the Fast construction of Efficient and safe highways and bridges. The three goals of HfL are to...

Improve safety during and after construction
Reduce congestion caused by construction
Improve the quality of the highway infrastructure

Featured Success Stories

Graves Avenue Prefabricated Bridge Project

Widening of I–4 from four to six lanes the old Graves Avenue Bridge had to go. Officials from the Florida DOT had seen an innovative bridge building technique in use overseas. There, crews used self-propelled modular transporters or s–p–m–ts to lift old bridges out of the way and then replace them with pre–constructed bridge spans in a short amount of time. Watch a video on the Graves Avenue Project (.wmv, 14 mb).

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Events

Leap Not Creep: Accelerating Innovation Implementation
Washington, DC
February 10-11, 2010

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