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Public Roads
Magazine Index - Contents of Volume 59
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No. 1, Summer 1995
Metrication of Roadside
Hardware
by Malcolm H. Ray
The recently updated Guide to Standardized Highway
Barrier Rail Hardware contains some important recommendations
regarding metrication of roadside safety hardware. |
3 |
Performance of Epoxy-Coated Prestressing
Strands at Elevated Temperatures
by Glenn A. Washer
The findings of a recent series of experiments to determine
the temperature at which epoxy softening causes slip,
the effect of slip on the stress in the strands and the
transfer length, and the effect of cyclic temperature
variations are summarized. |
6 |
The Local Technical Assistance
Program: Key Areas of Accomplishment
by Patsy Pratt Anderson
A recent survey of local transportation officials in 39
states reveals the most beneficial aspects of this technology
transfer program. |
8 |
Fifteen Years of HPMS Partnership:
Accomplishments and Future Directions
by Norman C. Mueller
The Highway Performance Monitoring System helps measure
the investment accountability of vast amounts of public
funds; provides a variety of information to Congress for
evaluating highway programs and funding; and serves the
analytical needs of FHWA, the transportation community,
business, industry, and the general public. |
10 |
INTERCHANGE: Global Road Transport
Knowledge Exchange Network
by Ray G. Griffith
INTERCHANGE, which is to be operational by September 1995,
will make available to road professionals throughout the
world a vast storehouse of technical, managerial, and
policy-related information. |
12 |
Metric Conversion ─ How
Soon?
by David Smith
More than 200 years after the metric system began
to spread throughout the world, the United States shares
the dubious distinction with Burma and Liberia as one
of only three nations that has not converted to the modern
metric system. FHWA is trying to rectify this situation. |
14 |
The Top Truck and Bus Safety Issues
by Stan Hamilton
The first Truck and Bus Safety Summit in Kansas City,
Mo., recently identified the 17 most significant truck
and bus safety issues. |
20 |
Bridge Research: Leading
the Way to the Future
by James D. Cooper and Eric Munley
Research is an essential and substantial part of the nation's
investment in highway bridges. |
23 |
Crossing the Delaware!
by Mike Britt, W. Denney Pate, and Lou Triandafilou
A unique combination of contractor prequalification, design
preparation, structural details, and precast concrete
segmental construction was used to build the Delaware
state Route 1 bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal. |
28 |
TransGuide Leads the
Way in Innovative Transportation Management
by Vincent P. Pearce
TransGuide is San Antonio's new state-of-the-art traffic
management system that emphasizes intermodal/interagency
cooperation and innovation in technology and procurement. |
35 |
No. 2, Autumn 1995
| California's
Temporary Freeway Bridge
by Nancy McMullin Bobb
When a bridge recently collapsed, Caltrans used an innovative
temporary bridge to reopen the route in only eight days. |
2 |
| Navigating the Future
by James A. Arnold
Navigation and positioning technologies are being revolutionized
by the Global Positioning System (GPS). GPS has applications
in every area of transportation. |
4 |
| Vehicle Compatibility
With Roadside Safety Hardware
by Jerry A. Reagan
Many issues must be resolved in the development of design
and evaluation methodology for roadside safety structures. |
11 |
| Advantage I-75
Prepares to Cut Ribbon on Electronic Clearance
by Joe Crabtree
Advanced technologies allow trucks to have their weight
and credentials checked electronically at highway speeds,
eliminating the need to stop at multiple weight station
along the I-75 corridor. |
16 |
| Pacific Rim TransTech
Conference
The PacRim Conference attracts more than 1,700 participants
from more than 50 countries to take "A Ride Into the Future." |
22 |
| TQM: It Really Works!
by Mark Chatfield
The Federal Lands Highway Office uses total quality management
to improve efficiency for six consecutive years. |
24 |
| Lessons From the
Kobe Quake
by Jim Cooper and Ian Buckle
American and Japanese engineers cooperate so that
they learn from each other's experiences, and the lessons
of the Kobe earthquake in January 1995 have much applicability
in the United States. |
28 |
| Rewarding Environmental
Excellence
by Ginny Finch
Projects in seven states are selected by FHWA to receive
the first Environmental Excellence Awards. |
38 |
| Roundabouts: A Direct
Way to Safer Highways
by Leif Ourston and Joe G. Bared
The superior safety record of modern roundabouts in Western
Europe is attracting attention in the United States. |
41 |
No. 3, Winter 1996
| A Revolution
in Winter Maintenance
by Brian Chollar
Where in the past, states focused their energies and
resources on deicing wintry roads, new technologies stress
preventive anti-icing measures. |
2 |
| New Links to South
Africa
FHWA's Office of International Programs and the National
Highway Institute are actively involved in a cooperative,
technology transfer program with the Republic of South
Africa's Department of Transport. |
5 |
| Demonstration Project
93 ― Making the Most of Today's Technology
by John McCracken
This project encompasses the joint efforts of 25 U.S.
and foreign manufacturers who have formed partnerships
with FHWA to promote and demonstrate the latest available
technology to state and local jurisdictions. |
7 |
| Narrow-Gap Improved
Electroslag Welding for Bridges
by Krishna K. Verma
Demonstration Project 102 is designed to transfer
a new advanced welding technology to state transportation
agencies and bridge fabricators. |
10 |
| "Attention Motorists
... The Bats Have Landed on our Bridge!"
by Paul Garrett
Austin, Texas, has adopted the largest urban colony
of bats in the world, roosting between the beams of the
Congress Avenue Bridge, and publicizes the bats as a tourist
attraction. |
12 |
| A Living Memorial
by Bonny Falk and Bob Bryant
FHWA has dedicated a memorial marker and grove of 11 Oklahoma
redbud trees at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
in homage to the 11 FHWA employees who lost their lives
in the April 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City. |
15 |
Linking the Delta Region
With the Nation and the World
FHWA is publishing a report about the progress
achieved in transportation and employment in the Lower Mississippi
River area from 1990 to 1995 and about transportation improvement
as a key to continued economic development in the area.
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19 |
The National Highway
Designation Act of 1995
On Nov. 28, 1995, President Clinton signed this landmark
legislation, which designates 260,000 kilometers of roads
as the National Highway System (NHS). NHS is going to be
the backbone of our national transportation network.
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29 |
| The National Highway
Institute: A 25-Year Record of Achievement
by Charles Barton
The National Highway Institute, 25 years old in 1995,
has become highly esteemed both at home and abroad for
its role in technology transfer and as a vital provider
of highway technology to the national and international
highway communities.
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33 |
| The CONMAT
Initiative: Charting an Innovative Path to the Next Century
by Harvey M. Bernstein and Richard A. Belle
In August 1995, 11 different basic construction material
(CONMAT) groups formally joined forces to take on the
task of creating the high-performance construction materials
and systems for a revitalized infrastructure capable of
withstanding the demands of the next century. |
40 |
| Aerodynamic Design
of Highway Structures
by Dryver R. Huston and Harold R. Bosch
FHWA is developing improved design and retrofit methods
and educating designers in the use of modern methods. |
46 |
No. 4, Spring 1996
| The National
Highway System: A Commitment to America's Future
by Rodney E. Slater
The National Highway System is the centerpiece of the
Federal Highway Administration's commitment to provide
a safe, modern, and efficient transportation system to
serve the American people, and it is the backbone of our
nation's 21st century transportation system. |
2 |
| Road Tours: Reaching
Out to the People
by Evelyn Fierro
Since April 1994, FHWA leaders have traveled 80,000 kilometers,
coast to coast and border to border, to meet with thousands
of people who use, construct, maintain, and manage our
transportation system. |
7 |
| The National Highway
System Designation Act of 1995
by Nancy Bennett
This article is a summary of the major provisions of the
NHS Designation Act, including system designation, safety,
motor carrier programs, funding and innovative financing,
mandates and requirements, and other provisions. |
10 |
| Economic Importance
of the National Highway System
by Thomas P. Keane
The signing of the NHS Designation Act released $5.4 billion
in federal-aid highway funds targeted to NHS. In addition,
there are direct, indirect, and induced employment and
financial benefits. |
16 |
| The Future FHWA
adapted from several FHWA sources
FHWA is "building on the past with an eye to the future"
by taking a proactive stance to anticipate and meet the
nation's burgeoning transportation needs. |
21 |
| Technology for Work
and Travel
by William Zaccagnino
FHWA is using available technology to ensure a future
with a high-tech transportation network that meets our
transportation needs, supports our national defense, provides
economic growth, and adds to the quality of life in the
United States well into the 21st century. |
23 |
| "Find the Good and
Praise It"
adapted from an FHWA report
This article highlights some of FHWA's significant program
accomplishments since June 1993. |
30 |
| The Secretary's Highway
Safety Action Plan
by Frederick G. Wright Jr.
This plan is a series of actions, some ongoing and some
planned for the future, that addresses some of the specific
safety issues of the NHS Designation Act and the emerging
state responsibilities in the federal-state partnership
in highway safety. |
37 |
| The National Highway
System -- Financing Its Future: The Role of Innovative
Finance
by Jane F. Garvey
Congress ― in the National Highway System Designation
Act of 1995 ― enacted a number of improvements in
the way the states and others may finance NHS and other
transportation infrastructure. Collectively, these provisions
are termed "innovative finance." |
39 |
| Milestones for U.S.
Highway Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration
compiled by Richard F. Weingroff
This is a time line of significant events in the history
of highway transportation in America from 1892 to the
present. |
44 |
| FHWA's Quality Journey
by Fred Jones
Deeply imbedded in the tradition and core values of
FHWA is the commitment to provide the highest quality
services to our partners and, together with them, to deliver
the very best highway transportation system to the nation.
NHS is going to provide the future focus for applying
quality improvement ideas, practices, approaches, and
new technology. |
51 |
| A New Face for FHWA
in a New Era
by David Smith
An effort to broaden and diversify the FHWA work force,
particularly in senior management positions, is playing
a significant role in ensuring that FHWA efficiently meets
its operational requirements and maintains a highly effective
and motivated work force. |
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List of Authors |
(issue/page references) |
| Patsy Pratt Anderson |
1/p.8 |
| James A. Arnold |
2/p.4 |
| Joe G. Bared |
2/p.41 |
| Charles Barton |
3/p.33 |
| Richard A. Belle |
3/p.40 |
| Nancy Bennett |
4/p.10 |
| Harvey M. Bernstein |
3/p.40 |
| Nancy McMullen Bobb |
2/p.2 |
| Harold R. Bosch |
3/p.46 |
| Mike Britt |
1/p.28 |
| Bob Bryant |
3/p.15 |
| Ian G. Buckle |
2/p.28 |
| Mark Chatfield |
2/p.24 |
| Brian Chollar |
3/p.2 |
| James D. Cooper |
1/p.23,2/p.28 |
| Joe Crabtree |
2/p.16 |
| Bonny Falk |
3/p.15 |
| Evelyn Fierro |
4/p.7 |
| Ginny Finch |
2/p.38 |
| Paul Garrett |
3/p.12 |
| Jane F. Garvey |
4/p.39 |
| Ray G. Griffith |
1/p.12 |
| Stan Hamilton |
1/p.20 |
| Dryver R. Huston |
3/p.46 |
| Fred Jones |
4/p.51 |
| Thomas P. Keane |
4/p.16 |
| John McCracken |
3/p.7 |
| Norman C. Mueller |
1/p.10 |
| Eric Munley |
1/p.23 |
| Leif Ourston |
2/p.41 |
| Denney Pate |
1/p.28 |
| Vincent P. Pearce |
1/p.35 |
| Malcolm H. Ray |
1/p.3 |
| Jerry A. Reagan |
2/p.11 |
| Rodney E. Slater |
4/p.2 |
| David Smith |
1/p.14, 4/p.53 |
| Lou Triandafilou |
1/p.28 |
| Krishna K. Verma |
3/p.10 |
| Glenn A. Washer |
1/p.6 |
| Richard F. Weingroff |
4/p.44 |
| Frederick G. Wright Jr. |
4/p.37 |
| William Zaccagnino |
4/p.23 |
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