Pioneering ideas used in building the Pennsylvania Turnpike were later used in building the nation’s Interstate Highway System. This fact adds a touch of poetic justice to efforts...
Let me check to make sure I have my driver’s license. Yup, it’s still there. After the experience I had at the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center in Virginia earlier this...
The U.S. 75 underpass at Churchill Way in Dallas—a three-span continuous, tangent, steel-tub girder bridge—not only demonstrates the efficiencies of collaboration between architecture...
Over the next few years, Kansas City traffic will improve—and it has Paris to thank. A diverging diamond interchange (DDI), born in the City of Lights in the mid-1970s, is currently...
Managing traffic is like pouring sand through a funnel. Pour at the right rate, and you’ll get a good flow. Dump the whole bag in at once, and the funnel clogs up. “Until now,...
Who’s the boss? Husbands, how would you like to be held responsible for your wife’s driving, even when you’re not with her in the car? If so, then the 650 followers of The First...
Analyze pavement profile data with greater ease and improve your pavement smoothness with the help of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Pavement Profile Viewing and ...
His only option was to spit it out. Fresh off the dentist’s chair, Rick James, executive vice president with Adams Construction Co., Roanoke, Va., knew providing answers to a ...
Motorists drive nearly 15 million miles every day on Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise’s (FTE) highways. It’s an unrelenting pounding on the Turnpike Enterprise’s pavement that keeps...
Last month, I highlighted a project letting in Delaware under the design-build contracting methodology. That case illustrated the need for state highway departments to educate...
When the state of Texas highway department signed a pioneering agreement with the Cintra-Zachry road construction consortium in March 2005 to build and operate a 600-mile toll...
As the screwdriver dug in, twisted and pried, I knew the demand change from officials would take at least a second or two off my run down the sleek stretch of timber.