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    Snow and Ice Removal

    WINTER MAINTENANCE: Time for recessed?

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Typical traffic paint and tape do not provide effective delineation during wet, nighttime conditions. Steel-casting snowplowable markers have been used by the Kentucky Transportation...
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    ROADS & BRIDGES/ARRA RECYCLING AWARDS: Buzz on the royal street

    Feb. 11, 2014
    We have all probably dripped water into a pan of very hot oil on the stove and been startled by the violent, cracking sizzle. That is analogous to what happens when you spray ...
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    RECYCLING/RECLAIMING: Anchored briefly

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Just before Labor Day weekend 2013, a fleet of 16 cold mills hustled night and day to prepare the east- and west-side approaches to the new Bay Bridge East Span for asphalt paving...
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    ROADS & BRIDGES/ARRA RECYCLING AWARDS: Once in place . . .

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Alaska is not particularly known for its thaws.
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    RECYCLING/RECLAIMING: On a serious tear

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Over the last decade, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has partnered with contractors to find innovative ideas to improve the roads and bridges in the state.The...

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    BRIDGE RESCUE: Talking it through

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Could one step to improving the condition of the nation’s bridges really be as easy as communicating better?
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    RECYCLING/RECLAIMING: Help from the poor

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Highway agencies in today’s economy are facing an ongoing need to search for ways to reduce construction costs.
    Reclaiming / Recycling

    ROADS & BRIDGES/ARRA RECYCLING AWARDS: Fit for man and beast

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Taking a first glance at the Karn Weadock generating complex, a person might think the idea of rehabilitating the entire on-site road network was for the birds.
    Snow and Ice Removal

    WINTER MAINTENANCE: Blanket response

    Feb. 11, 2014
    Most urban emergency snow-response programs focus on one aspect of travel: the automobile.Plow routes are designed to move vehicular traffic safely around the city. However, lifestyle...
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    Transportation Management

    Data connection

    Feb. 10, 2014
    In the far-flung world of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), forces are beginning to coalesce toward a goal of a much more efficient and safer environment.   This ...
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    Transportation Management

    Catalytic commitment

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Detroit’s M-1 Rail is an unprecedented public-private partnership that includes local, regional, state and federal partners working together to design and build a circulating ...
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    Transportation Management

    Public-private opportunity

    Feb. 10, 2014
    Those who closely track recent development of new public-private partnerships (P3s) in the public-transportation sphere can be forgiven for stifling a yawn.  
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    Transportation Management

    Mobility to the max

    Feb. 10, 2014
    If you were to conduct a study about how citizens in a specific region are getting from point A to point B, you would likely find that the number of miles traveled by vehicle ...
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    Transportation Management

    Drafting through hoops

    Feb. 4, 2014
    In early 2010, DuPont Pioneer International announced major expansions to its world headquarters campus in Johnston, Iowa, a move that will create 638 new jobs.