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November 2002	FHWA Highway Expertise at your Fingertips! FHWA's four Resource Centers (RC) are an extensive pool of expertise, and serve as an entry point to a wealth of knowledge throughout FHWA. The RC's found they can better serve their customers by leveraging expertise across geographic and organizational boundaries, and created the RC Expertise Locator (EL). The EL is a new, Web-based customer interface into the skills and services offered by the RC's. The EL presents RC talents to our customers and partners as one virtual RC organization. This EL is now available for your use and can be found at http://highwayexpertise.fhwa.dot.gov. Check out our wealth of knowledge! Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day Each year about 42,000 Americans are killed on our nation's roadways. Imagine... a day with ZERO traffic fatalities. That dream can become a reality on October 10, 2002. Find out more about Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day. Third National Transportation Finance Conference: Meeting the Funding Challenge Today & Shaping Policies for Tomorrow Chicago, Illinois will be the venue for the third in a series of national transportation finance conferences, co-sponsored by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and USDOT modal agencies. This conference, to be held from October 27-30, 2002, will continue the dialogue on the challenges of financing our transportation systems. Read more about the conference.
October 2002	FHWA 2001 Report to the American People Every hour of every day, the work of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its transportation partners touches the lives of nearly every citizen of the United States. In every aspect of our work, we focus on achieving our strategic goals - to enhance highway safety, improve system mobility and productivity, protect the human and natural environment, support national security, and ensure organizational excellence. How are we doing? You'll find the answers in "Unifying America, 2001 Report to the American People." Public Roads - Concrete Pavement Special Issue The July/August 2002 Public Roads, a concrete pavement special issue is now available online. Discover the latest applications and take a look at what FHWA is doing to improve concrete material performance and stretch the longevity of your roads. The History of Highways FHWA now has a site for anyone interested in highway history. It brings together a series of articles by FHWA's Richard F. Weingroff from Public Roads magazine about the evolution of highway transportation in the 20th century, along with online only features. In addition, the site makes available three unique monographs by the FHWA's former "unofficial historian," the late W. Lee Mertz, on the origins and construction of the Interstate System.
June 2002	Excellence in Highway Design Now accepting entries for the 2002 FHWA Biennial Awards. This program is conducted by the Federal Highway Administration to: 1) encourage excellence in the design of highways and highway-related facilities, and 2) to recognize projects that contribute effectively to a more pleasing highway experience. Entries must be postmarked by June 30, 2002.
April 2002	We Remember April 19, 2002, marked the seventh anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City. We honor those we lost and those who survived to carry on the work of the Agency. FHWA FY2002 Performance Plan FHWA's FY 2002 Performance Plan defines the performance goals, performance measures and indicators we will use to determine our progress in fiscal year 2002. This year, FHWA has added a sixth goal, Organizational Excellence, to focus on our internal operations and results.
March 2002	The Millennium MUTCD was published as a final rule in the Federal Register on December 18, 2000. The Millennium MUTCD (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices) text can be found at: http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov.
January 2002	Moving Ahead In 2000, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted surveys asking the American public about travel and transportation on the nation's roads. Take a look at the report on what citizens had to say about the nation's highways, transportation in our communities, and roads in and around national parks and forests, as well as how the public wants transportation agencies to focus resources and attention in maintaining and improving the state of transportation in our nation.