LTPP Data Analysis Contest

Use the world’s most extensive pavement performance database to research and write an award-winning paper for the International Contest on LTPP Data Analysis. The 2013 contest theme is “Pavement Performance Measures for Highways.” Papers are due July 31, 2013. Read More

Long-Term Pavement Performance New Standard Data Release 27

The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program makes the world’s largest pavement performance database available annually to the public on the Standard Data Release (SDR), which may be obtained through LTPP Customer Support Services. More Details

Emission Reductions, Fuel Savings Demonstrated at Turner-Fairbank

TFHRC’s intelligent intersection delivers SPaT and GID data to a test vehicle equipped with a DSRC modem, computer processor, and a display device to provide the driver with speed advice. Read More

Meininger Helps Exhibit Rocks and Roads at Natural History Museum

On September 29, Richard Meininger (rear), a civil engineer and member of FHWA’s pavement materials research team, and Mengesha Beyene (front), a geologist and contractor at TFHRC, volunteered their time at an educational event on rocks and geology at the National Museum of Natural History. Read More

Researchers Develop Field Device for Bridge Scour Testing

Researchers at the FHWA J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory are developing a scour testing field device that could make foundation construction less difficult and less expensive.Read More

Telling the R&T Story: The Value of Research…

This publication details how the Federal Highway Administration is advancing its research and technology programs to meet the Nation’s needs, including select examples of  state-of-the-art technologies being developed and implemented such as highway safety software, intelligent traffic lights, and the deployment of prefabricated bridge elements and systems.

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