Highway Maintenance Gets Major Attention at Transportation Meeting
Highways�� their maintenance and recycling especially�� came in for a good share of notice at last January's 57th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington,...
Seattle Freeway Park; A Scene of Blissful Contrasts
The Seattle Freeway Park was nominated for honorable mention for OCEA. Although not of massive scale and not dramatically innovative in civil engineering design and construction methods,...
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...
Off-Highway Transportation in the Arctic
Because of the terrain and lack of roads in the region, a new breed of off-highway vehicles has seen heavy service in the Arctic and north slope of Alaska. These vehicles include rubber-bag...
Porous Friction Course Solves Airport Hydroplaning Problem
Several hydroplaning incidents had occurred at the Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem Regional Airport, N.C. Hydroplaning occurs when hydrostatic pressure builds up in the field of surface...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
Impact of Civil Engineering Projects on People and Nature
Project Summary Report Initial Methodology and Case Study Development
Studies were made by the American Society of Civil Engineers to develop and initiate, through test cases, a methodology for classifying, quantifying, and analyzing the impacts on people...
Modes of Transportation
Sources of Information on Urban Transportation
This book offers an inventory of modes of urban transportation classified by vehicle types, with subclasses by guideway where applicable. Over 100 vehicles systems which have been demonstrated....
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