Recycling Bridges
Faced with the statistics showing that more than half of our bridges have fallen into a state of disrepair, bridge engineers have coined a phrase from the lexicon of conservationists to...
A Safe Skyscraper For the Seismic City
When completed in late 1989, the 73-story First International World Center will be the tallest office building in Los Angeles. The steel structure of the building was designed to be ductile...
The Precast Pier
For the U.S. Navy's Strategic program, a 1,410 ft long pier was constructed on New York City's Staten Island. The combined efforts of three engineering firms,...
Caissons Skirt a Tunnel
Exchange Place Center is a 490 ft, 30 story office tower built directly over the existing transportation hub in Jersey City, N.J., where trains and buses meet the PATH Tubes that carry...
Computer Assisted Mistakes
The proliferation of computer usage by design engineers will continue to generate change in practice. It will affect the process and production of design. It will affect the relationships...
New Horizons in Construction Materials
While civil engineers have, for centuries, built structures and other physical facilities using whatever materials are available to them, there is always the need for stronger, more durable,...
Source Control of Oil and Grease in an Urban Area
We explored a variety of techniques to remove oil and grease from urban stormwater runoff. Previous work has shown that relatively high concentrations and substantial mass loadings of...
Source Tracing of Toxicants in Storm Drains
Sources of toxic chemicals in storm drains are often difficult to locate and even more difficult to control. Receiving environment chemistry, storm drainage maps, land use information,...
Civil Engineering at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Focus on the Emerging Professional Environment
The development of America's surface transportation into the 21st century confronts the civil engineer with a distinctively new challenge arising from the twin demands of...
Future Federal Pavement Policy
Pavement design is entering a new era of increased attention and research insight. Since most of our pavements are in place and under traffic, much of future design will be for their rehabilitation...
Future Challenges for the Municipal Engineer
This paper acknowledges the role of the municipal engineer as constantly evolving and with even more changes in the future. Factors influencing these changes are the federal deficit, the...
Innovation?The Key to Local Roads Survival
The pressure of trying to get the job done within a limited budget have forced innovations in field operations to support local roads systems. This paper lists a few examples of innovations...
Future of Quality Assurance
There is an increasing awareness by the State highway agencies of the need for quality in construction. In addition, there is a recognition that quality management programs can be beneficial...
Safety on 21st Century Highways
Consistently high geometric design standards, adequate pavement skid resistance, drainage and markings, and appropriate signing, delineation and lighting all reduce the potential for driver...
Program on Advanced Technology for the Highway (PATH)
This paper describes a program of research, development and demonstration of advanced technologies for the automobile/highway system created in California, under the general direction...
Roadside Safety Design for the Micro-Mini Vehicles
This paper summarizes the results of a study to evaluate the impact performance of widely used roadside safety elements for a 1,500 lb vehicle and to identify potential modifications that...
CARTS: Next Generation in Vehicle Safety Research
The California Automotive Research Test Site (CARTS), is a new joint test facility for use by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the University of California at...
Safety Performance Evaluation of 21st Century Appurtenances
A great deal has occurred in the highway safety field in the last 15 years: there have been societal changes which have altered the character of the vehicle fleet; there have been technological...
Critical Issues in Highway Engineering Education
The four critical issues addressed are: Recruitment/retention of faculty; Deteriorating laboratory equipment; Undergraduate student enrollment-quantity and quality and Graduate student...
Graduate Education and Highway Research Needs in the 21st Century
A number of significant challenges face highway engineers in the 21st Century. Large growths in traffic volumes and alarming increases in congestion are already problems in many of our...
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