There are many little-used approaches that result in a better highway or bridge project. Among the benefits of such approaches are that they’re faster, safer, have less impact on traffic, provide better quality, and at less cost.
Highways for LIFE provides State DOTs with funding for construction of projects using one or more innovations that the agency has rarely used previously.
The methods and priority given to the actual process for getting innovations and new technologies moved into common practice must be improved in order to accelerate their delivery. Test cases, called "vanguard technologies" have demonstrated excellent results.
