The Forgotten Engineer: John Stevens and the Panama Canal
John Frank Stevens was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to take over the flagging Panama Canal project when John Wallace quit. Stevens had been an outstanding railroad...
Carpools: How Successful�
For a number of years, the Federal Highway Administration has been encouraging increased carpooling as one of the ways to increase the people- moving efficiency of urban highways. The...
Interstate Highway System
Eventually to cost nearly $90 billion, the Interstate Highway System will connect all U.S. cities of 50,000 and larger, eventually carry 25% of all highway traffic. The article traces...
Designing for the Disadvantaged: Optimum Design Considers All Users
Design practices in recent engineering projects show that consideration for the full human utility of building and transportation systems is receiving increasing attention. Previously,...
Improved Design of Highway Culvert
New culvert design procedures, incorporating improved inlet concepts, make significant construction savings possible through hydrauically efficient use of the culvert barrel. Two representative...
British New Towns and the Civil Engineer
Since World War II Britain has built or is building several dozen New Towns. The first, designed to absorb London's growth, pioneered with breakthroughs in housing layouts...
Urban Freeways and Changing Social Values
One key reason for undertaking the $90 billion Interstate Highway System �even though the name may not so indicate? was traffic congestion in and near cities. The intercity segments of...
Interstate Squeezes through River Gorge
The Virgin River Gorge in northern Arizona, a designated wilderness area, now contains one of the most beautiful and spectacular segments of our Interstate Highway System. Interstate 15,...
8-Story Building Moved to Avoid Wrecker's Ball
In Bogota, Colombia, a 7000 ton (15400kips) was moved almost 100 ft (30 m) to make way for a much needed highway arterial. Instead of wrecking the structure, an apartment building in a...
Short Span Bridges
Short span bridges, seemingly simple and innocuous structures, in fact embody many interesting problems and developments: The need to replace hundreds of thousands of bridges (safety and...
Reinforced Earth Bridges Highway Sinkhole
Faced with an unusual sinkhole condition, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation decided to utilize a two-way reinforced earth slab in conjunction with a subsurface grouting program...
Washington Metro Access Facilities
The 98 mi (158 km) Metro system will have 82 stations. There will be an off-street bus terminal at 54 of the stations with an average of six modified saw-tooth off-street bus bays at each...
Tackling Major Highway Landslides in the Tennessee Mountains
Interstate 40, running through Tennessee's rugged Smoky Mountains, has been damaged in several places by major landslides. As illustrated by several case histories in this...
Los Angeles Tackles Freeway Congestion
In some 50 miles of Los Angeles freeway, the California Division of Highways is taking a systematic approach to eliminating traffic congestion. The actions include: changeable message...
Reinforced Earth: A New Alternative for Earth Retention Structures
Using a variety of projects as examples, the authors demonstrate the versatility of the patented Reinforced EarthTM...
Citizen Participation: Assessing Public Attitudes
One of a short series of articles how to achieve effective citizen participation. A case history approach is used focusing on a proposed highway relocation in Ottowa, Canada. Techniques...
Paratransit: How You May Get Around if the Energy Shortage Takes You Out of Your Car
Conventional rail and bus transit play important roles. Para-transit may eventually carry more people. Among the possibilities: priority access to freeways for multi-passenger vehicles;...
Practical Proposal for Restoring Manhattan's West Side Highway
New York City's West Side Highway is an elevated roadway running along the west edge of Manhattan, adjacent to the once booming piers along the Hudson River. When opened in...
Engineering the First Mass Transit Tramway
Aerial tramways are not normally considered for a cross-town mass transit system. They are no longer limited to the ski resorts since construction of the link between Manhattan Island...
New York City's New Town
New York City has taken advantage of a little used island, Roosevelt Island, in the middle of the East River to build a unique residential new town. The large development is connected...
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