Public Roads Magazine Index - Contents of Volume 62

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No. 1, July/August 1998

LTPP: The Next Decade by Charles J. Churilla An expert discusses the value, history, and future of the Long-Term Pavement Performance Program  ―   the largest and most comprehensive pavement study in the world.	2
Concrete Pavements  ―   Past, Present, and Future by Thomas J. Pasko Jr This overview of concrete pavements emphasizes the importance of looking to past research to make decisions about concrete pavements of the future.	7
Pavement Management Systems  ―   Past, Present, and Future by Fred Finn. Discover how the practice of systematically managing pavement networks evolved over the years and how the practice is still changing.	16
Developing Long-Lasting, Lower Maintenance Highway Pavement by the Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (FHWA) The Research and Technology Coordinating Committee investigates the feasibility of building highway pavements that last longer and require less maintenance.	23
World's Longest Suspension Bridge Opens in Japan by James D. Cooper Japan opens the longest suspension bridge in the world  ―   how did they do it?	32
Planning for a New Type of Natural Disaster:  El Niño Phenomenon Brings Innovative Approaches by John Cagle and Arlo Waddoups In response to the unpredictable and severe  weather caused by El Niño, highway professionals developed creative and effective solutions to control damage to infrastructure.	37
Clean Air and Transportation: The Facts May Surprise You by Michael Koontz The transportation sector  ―   and especially the automobile industry  ―    has done its part in the quest for better air quality.	42
Computer Bits Give Geotechnical Drilling Cutting-Edge Technology by Richard J. Barrows and Stephen Hay The Geotechnical Business-Focused Team of the Western Federal Lands Highway Division implement an easier way to collect data during geotechnical subsurface explorations by using an automated borehole logging system.	47
Evaluating Accelerated Rut Testers by Pedro Romero and Kevin Stuart The Federal Highway Administration tested several rut testers to determine which device offers the most accurate prediction of pavement rutting resistance.	50

No. 2, September/October 1998

The Metric Conversion Status for the Highway Program by Jennifer Balis The conversion to the metric system of measurements in highway construction is progressing.	2
National ITS Architecture by S. Lawrence Paulson The National ITS Architecture serves as a master blueprint for the development of an integrated, multimodal intelligent transportation system.	5
Building a Bridge to the Public: The Alaska Experience by Marti Dilley and Thomas J. Gallagher The Alaska Department of Transportation developed a public involvement procedure (PIP) that opened the lines of communication between those who plan and design the transportation system and those who use it.	10
One Extraordinary Barn by Dena M. Gray-Fisher Iowa Department of Transportation created a unique and functional rest area along Interstate 35 with a design that combined the agricultural history of the area with modern technology.	19
Bridging the Centuries: Moving Virginia's Bridge Program Into the 21st Century by Claude S. Napier Jr., Wallace T. McKeel Jr., and Michael M. Sprinkel Virginia is the only state to apply all of the following in their bridge program: heated bridge deck, thin bonded overlays, high-performance materials (steel, concrete, aluminum, and fiber-reinforced polymer composites), nondestructive evaluation/testing, and jointless bridge technologies.	22
TEA-21: "A Historic Piece of Legislation" by David Smallen Congress passes the landmark Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21).	30
Ultra-Thin Whitetopping by Charles J. Churilla UTW has proven to be a low-cost, effective, and fairly simple solution to the problem of repairing pavement at high-trafficked intersections.	37
The First Channel Bridges by Christopher J. Allen and Frank Naret The Channel Bridge, a precast-concrete superstructure system that uses post-tensioned segmental construction, is an innovative solution to increasing the vertical under-clearance of a bridge.	40
Staying in the Loop: The Search for Improved Reliability of Traffic Sensing Systems Through Smart Test Instruments by David Gibson, Milton K. (Pete) Mills, and Doug Rekenthaler Jr. Find out how FHWA developed an inductive loop tester to quickly and accurately measure the quality and performance of installed inductive loops.	47

No. 3, November/December 1998

TEA-21 Supports FHWA's Strategic Goals by Kenneth R. Wykle FHWA Administrator Kenneth Wykle explains how the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) moves us towards a 21st century transportation system.	2
The State of Research by Robert J. Betsold FHWA's associate administrator for research and development discusses the impact of TEA-21 on the federal highway research program.	5
Marketing: Helping to Develop the Transportation System for the 21st Century by John I. Cagle FHWA uses marketing techniques to "find the needs and fill them."	9
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Marketers by Stephen W. McDaniel FHWA and other highway professionals can use seven basic marketing principles to more effectively accomplish their missions and serve their customers.	15
We're on the Eve of Construction by Mike Jones FHWA takes the lead in the critical last step before construction  ―   the acquisition of the necessary land and other property rights  ―   to protect the rights of property owners and displaced persons and to protect the public's interests.	25
The ITS Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative by Toni Wilbur The recent opening of model deployment projects in Seattle, San Antonio, Phoenix, and New York City are the culmination of an initiative, jointly sponsored by FHWA and the Federal Transit Administration, that began in October 1996.	28
The Great River Road Celebrates 60 Years by Karen Haas Smith Great River Road, one of the oldest, longest, and most unique scenic byways in North America, celebrates its 60th birthday this year.	32
Laboratory Testing of the Performance of Moisture-Cured Urethanes on New Steel by Shuang-Ling Chong and Yuan Yao FHWA has been actively involved in the study of climate-tolerant, durable bridge coatings to ensure extended painting seasons and coating lives.	36
Better Load Ratings Through Nondestructive Evaluation by Glenn Washer and Paul Fuchs FHWA recently tested and evaluated two state-of-the-art prototype nondestructive evaluation systems that, in comparison with theoretical calculations, provide a much more accurate measure of a bridge's load-carrying capacity.	41
Maintaining the Customer‑Driven Highway by Jim Sorenson, Ed Terry, and Dan Mathis FHWA's Office of Program Quality Coordination recently conducted a national quality improvement review of highway maintenance and construction operations to find ways to minimize traffic backups and travel delays caused by maintenance and rehabilitation projects.	45
Urban Freeway  Renewal by David O. Cox FHWA examines the national issue of finding cost-effective and customer-sensitive methods to reconstruct freeway pavements.	46

 

No. 4, January/February 1999

Effects of Partial and Total Sleep Deprivation on Driving Performance by Robert D. Peters, Esther Wagner, Elizabeth Alicandri, Jean E. Fox, Maria L. Thomas, David R. Thorne, Helen C. Sing, and Sharon M. Balwinski A study conducted jointly by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Human Factors Laboratory and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) examined the effects of progressive sleep deprivation on driving performance to assess the rate of crashes and the changes in driving performance resulting from sleepiness.	2
A Silver Bullet: Shoulder Texture Treatments by Ann Walls Shoulder surface treatments, such as rumble strips, reduce crashes by alerting drowsy drivers that they are drifting off the roadway.	9
It's a Jungle Out There: Using the Bullnose Guardrail to Protect the Elephant Traps by John D. Reid, Martin W. Hargrave, and Doug Rekenthaler Jr. FHWA, in conjunction with state departments of transportation, is working to improve guardrail systems. Bullnose guardrails are a safe and effective solution to protecting drivers from falling into the elephant trap of side-by-side bridges.	13
Introducing FHWA's NDE Validation Center by Brent M. Phares, Glenn Washer, and Mark Moore The only center in the world dedicated entirely to the evaluation and validation of nondestructive evaluation (NDE)  technologies for highway infrastructure opens at FHWA's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.	18
CVISN: The Information Highway Meets the Asphalt Jungle by Michael Curtis and Jeff Secrist CVISN links the disparate intelligent transportation systems technologies already having an impact on the world of commercial vehicle operations.	21
Making What's Good Even Better by Anthony R. Kane FHWA's executive director explains the restructuring of FHWA's headquarters and field organizations.	25
We Are ONE DOT! by Melissa J. Allen ONE DOT is a management strategy that builds on the strength of mutual collaboration between the agencies of the U.S.  Department of Transportation to reduce duplication and save resources.	30
Office of Motor Carriers and Highway Safety: Always "Safety First" Public Roads interviews FHWA's Associate Administrator for Motor Carriers and Highway Safety George Reagle.	36
Involving the Public in Improving Air Quality by Kathy Daniel FHWA works to reduce pollution by educating the public on air quality issues.	42
Traffic-Flow Theory by Henry Lieu This article outlines the revised Monograph on Traffic Flow Theory, an updated and expanded version of two previous works that describe in a precise mathematical way the interactions among vehicles, drivers, and the infrastructure.	45

No. 5, March/April 1999

Making It Happen: Implementing the FHWA Restructuring Plan by Julie Anna Cirillo The restructuring of the field and headquarters organizations of the Federal Highway Administration marches on.	2
Is Benchmarking in Your Future? by Fred Jones FHWA joins the ranks of quality organizations that use benchmarking to identify, understand, and adapt the outstanding practices of others anywhere in the world to help to improve corporate performance.	5
Building Roads in Sync with Community Values by Harold E. Peaks and Sandra Hayes The challenge to the highway design community is to find design solutions, as well as operational options, that result in the full consideration of increasing public involvement, community and economic development, environmental sensitivity, historic preservation, neighborhood preservation, and concern for bicyclists and pedestrians.	7
Seismic Protection of Bridges by Hamid Ghasemi During the past 20 years, seismic isolation has emerged as one of the most promising retrofitting strategies for improving the seismic performance of existing bridges. It is also an attractive approach for new construction when conventional design is not suitable or economical.	15
Getting Around in Japan: The Status and Challenges of ITS by Masafumi Mori Japan with an ITS-related budget of approximately $460 million for fiscal year 1998 is making significant progress in several ITS areas.	21
Getting Smoother Pavement: An Arizona Success Story That's Adaptable Nationwide by Joe Massucco and John Cagle A new construction concept has resulted in Arizona highways that are 27 percent smoother than their predecessors.	26
Brownfields and Bikeways: Making a Clean Start by Barbara J. Braswell The Woonasquatucket River Greenway Project in Providence, R.I., is a model of "environmental protection and restoration, economic development, job creation, community revitalization, and public health protection through the assessment, cleanup, and sustainable use of brownfields [lightly to moderately contaminated property]."	31
FHWA's Computer Systems Are Ready for the Year 2000 by Larry Neff FHWA is on-track in its five-phased approach to ensure that all FHWA computers are Y2K-compatible.	39
"Steps for Action"  ―   Making Sure ITS Is Ready for the Year 2000 by Pamela Crenshaw The U.S. DOT in partnership with 22 transportation associations and professional groups developed the "Steps for Action," a compilation of information for addressing Y2K problems from the educational, management, technical, and institutional perspectives.	42
Value Pricing Helps Reduce Congestion by John T. Berg and Felicia B. Young A federal pilot program is exploring the use of "value pricing" to increase travel options by providing incentives to shift some trips to off-peak times, alternative modes, or less congested routes.	46

No. 6, May/June 1999

"Doing Futures" — Creating a Preferred Future in Highway Safety by Lorena G. Beauchesne The Federal Highway Administration has started a process to identify the actions it must take now and in the future to "create" the future it desires.	2
Improving Safety Through Peer Exchanges by Barbara Kenefake and Ayman Smadi National peer exchanges, began in 1994 by the FHWA's Office of Motor Carriers, help to identify the "best practices" related to selected specific elements of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program.	5
National Transportation Week, May 16-22 by Karen Haas Martin From May 16-22, the transportation community will celebrate National Transportation Week to increase public awareness of transportation and to educate the public about transportation issues.	9
An Immediate Payoff From FHWA's NDE Initiative by Adrian T. Ciolko and W. Phillip Yen Advanced nondestructive evaluation and nondestructive flaw-detection technologies played a vital role in the successful emergency structural evaluation of the Cochrane Bridge in Mobile County, Ala.	10
Designing Highways With Older Drivers in Mind by Elizabeth Alicandri, Mark Robinson, and Tim Penney Aging affects a wide variety of skills that are critical to safe driving. Indeed, studies have shown that older drivers have high rates of crashes, injuries, and fatalities on a per-mile-driven basis. As the percentage of Americans aged 65 and older continues to grow, this significant problem grows in magnitude.	18
FHWA's Driver Performance Laboratory by Kathryn Wochinger, Cathy Emery, and Elizabeth Alicandri The Driver Performance Laboratory at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center investigates issues of driver performance related to highway and traffic engineering and to the design of in-vehicle information systems.	24
The National Driver History Initiative by Brian M. McLaughlin FHWA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are sponsoring a driver history pilot project in nine states to improve systems for recording traffic convictions and for exchanging driver safety information among courts, police, and licensing agencies.	26
What's a Work Zone? by J. Dan Turner Currently, no nationally recognized definitions of work zone or work-zone accidents exist. FHWA is involved in an effort to develop a standardized definition of work zone to enable researchers to assess the current state of work-zone safety and to recommend possible countermeasures to eliminate or mitigate safety problems.	27
The National Work-Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse by T. Peter Ruane and Gerald Ullman Opened in February 1998, the clearinghouse has the most comprehensive library of information on work-zone safety.	30
Safety Is Our North Star The outcomes of the National Transportation Safety Conference, held March 2-3, 1999, are the beginning of a transportation safety action plan and a memorandum of understanding signed by government officials and chiefs of industry, trade, labor, and law enforcement, pledging to make safety a priority in their organizations.	32
1999 International Highway Transportation Safety Week, June 1-5 The aims of the activities of this special week are to promote the message that all drivers are responsible for ensuring safe highways and to educate the public about the efforts to improve truck and bus safety.	37
Human Factors Recommendations for TMC Design by Nazemeh Sobhi and Michael Kelly A series of experiments were conducted in a high-fidelity, human factors research simulator of a traffic management center to determine how to best integrate the human operator into the high-technology TMC.	38
FHWA's International Geotechnical Engineering Scan by Thomas K. Saad and Jerry A. DiMaggio In March 1998, a team of geotechnical and structural engineers from FHWA, state highway agencies, and industry went to Canada and Europe to discuss practices for implementing load and resistance factor design methods; to investigate innovative contracting practices; and to identify new or improved mechanically stabilized earth-wall technologies, ground-improvement methods, and in situ testing procedures.	43
Does Asset Management Deserve a Closer Look? by Dena M. Gray-Fisher The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved an asset management strategic plan that outlines AASHTO's activities to advance asset management among the organization's members.	50

List of Authors	(issue/page references)
Elizabeth Alicandri	4/p.2, 6/p.18, 6/p.25
Christopher J. Allen	2/p.40
Melissa J. Allen	4/p.30
Jennifer Balis	2/p.2
Sharon M. Balwinski	4/p.2
Richard J. Barrows	1/p.47
Lorena G. Beauchesne	6/p.2
John T. Berg	5/p.47
Robert J. Betsold	2/p.5
Barbara J. Braswell	5/p.32
John I. Cagle	1/p.37, 3/p.9, 5/p.27
Shuang-Ling Chong	3/p.36
Charles J. Churilla	1/p.2, 2/p.37
Adrian T. Ciolko	6/p.10
Julie Anna Cirillo	5/p.2
James D. Cooper	1/p.32
David O. Cox	3/p.49
Pamela Crenshaw	5/p.43
Michael Curtis	4/p.21
Kathy Daniel	4/p.42
Marti Dilley	2/p.10
Jerry A. DiMaggio	6/p.43
Cathy Emery	6/p.25
Fred Finn	1/p.16
Jean Fox	4/p.2
Paul Fuchs	3/p.41
Thomas J. Gallagher	2/p.10
Hamid Ghasemi	5/p.15
David Gibson	2/p.47
Dena M. Gray-Fisher	2/p.19, 6/p.50
Martin W. Hargrave	4/p.13
Stephen Hay	1/p.47
Sandra Hayes	5/p.7
Fred Jones	5/p.5
Mike Jones	3/p.25
Anthony R. Kane	4/p.25
Michael Kelly	6/p.38
Barbara Kenefake	6/p.5
Michael Koontz	1/p.42
Henry Lieu	4/p.45
Joe Massucco	5/p.27
Dan Mathis	3/p.45
Stephen W. McDaniel	3/p.15
Wallace T. McKeel Jr.	2/p.22
Brian M. McLaughlin	6/p.26
Milton K. (Pete) Mills	2/p.47
Mark Moore	4/p.18
Masafumi Mori	5/p.22
Claude S. Napier Jr.	2/p.22
Frank Naret	2/p.40
Larry Neff	5/p.40
S. Lawrence Paulson	2/p.5
Thomas J. Pasko Jr.	1/p.7
Harold E. Peaks	5/p.7
Tim Penney	6/p.18
Robert D. Peters	4/p.2
Brent M. Phares	4/p.18
John D. Reid	4/p.13
Doug Rekenthaler Jr.	2/p.47, 4/p.13
Mark Robinson	6/p.18
Pedro Romero	1/p.50
T. Peter Ruane	6/p.30
Thomas K. Saad	6/p.43
Jeff Secrist	4/p.21
David Smallen	2/p. 30
Helen C. Sing	4/p.2
Ayman Smadi	6/p.5
Karen Haas Smith (Martin)	3/p.32, 6/p.9
Nazemeh Sobhi	6/p.38
Jim Sorenson	3/p.45
Michael M. Sprinkel	2/p.22
Kevin Stuart	1/p.50
Ed Terry	3/p.45
Maria L. Thomas	4/p.2
David R. Thorne	4/p.2
J. Dan Turner	6/p.27
Gerald Ullman	6/p.30
Arlo Waddoups	1/p.37
Esther Wagner	4/p.2
Ann Walls	4/p.9
Glenn Washer	3/p.41, 4/p.18
Toni Wilbur	3/p.28
Kathryn Wochinger	6/p.25
Kenneth R. Wykle	3/p.2
Yuan Yao	3/p.36
W. Phillip Yen	6/p.10
Felicia B. Young	5/p.47

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