2013 Asphalt Today

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is America’s eastern front door. It is the largest container port in the eastern U.S. and the third largest in the country...

Nobody likes to be behind a bus for very long.With plans for the Canoga Avenue Metro Orange Line bus station in the city of Los Angeles well under way, officials did not want ...

When you are getting ready for a highly anticipated date, standing in front of the mirror becomes a compulsive behavior. Once in a steady relationship, you better be able to look...

Bridge LOG-TR 174-00.56 in Logan County, Ohio, was like thousands of simple-span vehicular bridges across the U.S. Beyond maintenance, it was rendered obsolete by the Federal ...

Arizona would sound like the perfect place to do a hot in-place recycling project such as the one undertaken along 99th Avenue in Sun City, Ariz., last spring.The Maricopa County...

In late August 2012, the crews working SH 130 were attaining astonishingly smooth placements of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) on segments 5 and 6 of the new central Texas toll route south...

In the terminology of environmental experts, recycling is good but reusing is better. “Recycling” means incorporating a reclaimed material into another form. That’s how soda...

Durable, tough microsurfacing treatments are back, preserving Iowa interstates, but now containing a high-performance latex polymer modifier.

As maintenance budgets are stretched to their limits, perhaps thin-asphalt overlays can fatten those thin budgets a bit.Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers...

Recent research by the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) indicates the use of highly polymer-modified asphalt binder (HiMA) in mix design can reduce pavement thickness...

In 2011, after enduring more than 44 years of surface erosion and extreme swings in temperature and precipitation, the 231-ft-high Homestake Dam in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain region...