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Hooray, it's celebration time. Actually four celebrations coast-to-coast, starting last June in Seattle and running through October in New York, marked the completion of a major step in achieving the [...]

High-speed race car drivers call it 'stick.' When they're rounding a high-banked turn at 260 kilometers per hour, that's what they want the wheels of the car to do to [...]

Background One of the major tasks of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Design Concepts Research Division is to develop and implement an Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM). The purpose [...]

This article is adapted from materials provided by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) IVHS Program Management and Systems Engineering Division and from an article in the January 1994 IVHS Architecture [...]

On October 3, 1993, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) celebrated 100 years of service to the country. General Roy Stone, the agency's first head, called the movement to improve the [...]

Each year, ribbon-cutting ceremonies are held throughout the United States and abroad to dedicate majestic new bridges and highways designed to move millions of people from one place to another [...]

'President Clinton has made education his number one priority. In transportation, we have always understood the need to master new skills. Today, we need to learn and relearn. We are [...]

On June 16, 1993, a new era in the leadership of the Federal Highway Administration officially began with the formal swearing-in of Rodney E. Slater as the FHWA administrator. Slater, [...]

Twenty field engineers from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Lands Highway Office have been assigned as members of the Extended Superpave Technology Delivery Team (STDT). Superpave™ is [...]

Introduction The Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) has been a highly successful federal-state partnership for 15 years. This program helps measure the investment accountability of vast amounts of public funds; [...]

The National Scenic Byways Program is a partnership of federal, state, and local officials - as well as private citizens - to designate roads with significant scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, [...]