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Contents of Volume 60

Number 1, Summer 1996
titleauthorpage
Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: Building the Foundationby Richard F. Weingroff2
From 1916 to 1939: The Federal-State Partnership at Workby Richard F. Weingroff7
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate Systemby Richard F. Weingroff10
Three States Claim First Interstate Highwayby Richard F. Weingroff18
Poetry of the Open Roadby Tamara Broberg20
Artists Look at Roadsby Richard F. Weingroff22
Local Government Highway Finance Trends, 1984-1993by Leonard S. Goldberg24
Engineering Marvelsby Richard F. Weingroff28
Atlanta to Showcase ITS Traveler Informationby David F. Williams35
Condition and Performance of the Interstate System --After 40 Yearsby Clifford M. Comeau40
Road Moviesby Richard F. Weingr42
Number 2, Autumn 1996
titleauthorpage
Eight Steps Toward a Smarter National Highway Systemby Christine M. Johnson2
Congestion Pricing: Reducing Traffic Jams Through Economicsby Ginny Finch4
Performance of Epoxy-Coated Rebars in Bridge Decksby Jeffrey L. Smith and
Yash Paul Virmani
6
FHWA Launches New Nationwide Seismic Bridge Design Training by James W. Keeley13
Aftermath of the Kobe Earthquakeby Hamid Ghasemi,
Hisanori Otsuka,
James D. Cooper, and
Hiroyuki Nakajima
17
WesTrack: The Road to Solutionsby Terry Mitchell23
Test Roads: Designing the Pavements of the Futureby Terry Mitchell26
The Promise of High-Performance Concreteby David C. Smith31
Intelligent Transportation Systems in Japanby Hideo Tokuyama41
Smart Road, Smart Car: The Automated Highway System by Nita Congress46
Number 3, Winter 1997
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Quality Journey Update: Results That Make a Differenceby Margherita DiCenzo and
Trish Day
2
The Highway Safety Information System: Transforming
Data Into Knowledge
by Jeffrey F. Paniati and
Forrest M. Council
4
Architects of Change: Creating America’s 21st Century
Intermodal Transportation System
by Rodney E. Slater10
The Road to Reauthorization: Building on the Success of ISTEA by Cheryl Hoffman and
Lawrence Paulson
12
Keep the Good Times Rolling: ISTEA Success Storiesby Cheryl Hoffman and
Lawrence Paulson
17
Development of a Bridge Steel Databaseby Glenn Washer and
Greg Nelson
27
South Carolina Trooper Is Top Inspector by Stan Hamilton30
Timber Bridges in the United States by Sheila Rimal Duwadi and
Michael A. Ritter
32
Internet Watchby Dick Stirba41
Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Piers:
A Bridge From the Past to the Present
by Doug Rekenthaler43
Closing the Technology Gapby David C. Smith52
Moving Forward Smartly: The Role of ITS in the NEXTEA by Jeff Lindley57
Number 4, Spring 1996
CMCRA: Where the Tire Meets the Roadby Dr. Brian Chollar and
Dr. Mohammed Memon
2
Highway Statisticsby Mary K. Teets4
ATMS Human Factors Experiments Produce Design Guidelinesby Nazemeh Sobhi and
Michael J. Kelly
7
New Inventions and Patents :10
Park Project Is a Paragon of Partnershipby Kevin M. Mentz,
Eric Worrell,
and F. Dave Zanetell
12
High-Performance Materials: A Step Toward Sustainable Transportationby Susan Lane,
Eric Munley,
William Wright,
Marcia Simon, and
James D. Cooper
19
FHWA’s Applied Highway Infrastructure Research Program on Composite Materialsby Martin W. Hargrave,
Eric Munley,and
Thomas J. Pasko
23
Building the Bridge to the 21st Century With ... Aluminum?by William Wright30
High-Performance Steel: Research to Practiceby William Wright34
Structural Monitoring With GPSby Keith Duff and Michael Hyzak39


List of Authors
authorissuepage reference
Tamara Broberg1p. 20
Brian Chollar4p. 2
Clifford M. Comeau1p. 40
Nita Congress2p. 46
James D. Cooper2
4
p. 17
p. 19
Forrest M. Council3p. 4
Trish Day3p. 2
Margherita DiCenzo3p. 2
Keith Duff4p. 39
Sheila Rimal Duwadi3p. 32
Ginny Finch2p. 4
Hamid Ghasemi2p. 17
Leonard S. Goldberg1p. 24
Stan Hamilton3p. 30
Martin W. Hargrave4p. 23
Cheryl Hoffman3p. 12,
p. 17
Michael Hyzak4p. 39
Christine M. Johnson2p. 2
James W. Keeley2p. 13
Michael J. Kelly4p. 7
Susan Lane4p. 19
Jeff Lindley3p. 57
Mohammed Memon4p. 2
Kevin M. Mentz4p. 12
Terry Mitchell2p. 23,
p. 26
Eric Munley4p. 19,
p. 23
Hiroyuki Nakajima2p. 17
Greg Nelson3p. 27
Hisanori Otsuka2p. 17
Jeffrey F. Paniati3p. 4
Thomas J. Pasko4p. 23
Lawrence Paulson3p. 12,
p. 17
Doug Rekenthaler3p. 43
Michael A. Ritter3p. 32
Marcia Simon4p. 19
Rodney E. Slater3p. 10
David Smith2
3
p. 31,
p. 52
Jeffrey L. Smith2p. 6
Nazemeh Sobhi4p. 7
Dick Stirba3p. 41
Hideo Takuyama2p. 41
Mary K. Teets4p. 4
Yash Paul Virmani2p. 6
Glenn A. Washer3p. 27
Richard F. Weingroff1p. 2,
p. 7,
p. 10,
p. 18,
p. 22,
p. 28,
p. 42
David F. Williams1p. 35
Eric Worrell4p. 12
William Wright4p. 19,
p. 30,
p. 34
F. Dave Zanetell4p. 12

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