Sawn Lumber in Bridge Construction
This paper covers many aspects of design and construction that affect the specifications of the sawn wood components of a highway bridge. The relationships between the grading rules for...
Asphalt Cement Specifications and HMA Performance
The standard specifications generally used for hot mix asphalt (HMA) are those published by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) or the American Association of State Highway...
Montana's Approach to Reduce Asphalt Pavement Rutting
The Montana Department of Highways experienced premature rutting in some asphalt concrete pavements primarily on the east-west interstate in Eastern Montana. Montana participated with...
Composite Applications in Highway Bridges
This report presents a summary of a four year research effort titled, 'Transfer of Composite Technology to Design and Construction of Bridges'. Extensive analytical...
Environmental Considerations in the Design of Asphalt Concrete Paving Mixtures
The design of asphalt concrete mixtures is largely based on two empirical mixture design methods. These are 'Marshall' and 'Hveem',...
Lime-Fly Ash-Aggregate Base and Subbase Courses
This paper describes the use of lime-fly ash-aggregate (LFA) base and subbase courses for highway pavements. This type pavement course is considered as an alternate to cement treated bases...
World's Largest Caisson
The world's largest caisson (210,000 cy) forms the offshore cable anchorage for the 1,870 ft main span Tokyo Harbor Bridge. The bridge carries Metropolitan Expressway Route...
Let the Buyer Beware
As recently as the 1970s, state highway agencies blindly purchased land for projects without much concern for hazardous waste. But that changed in 1980 with Superfund legislation, specifically...
Bridges on Screen
Computer software can help engineers produce designs for more economical, constructable bridges in less time than conventional methods. Software is being put to work in bridge design departments...
Residential Streets
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Bumpy Road Ahead
By 1999, we will be riding on highways and public transit paid for by the 1991 reauthorization of the National Surface Transportation Act. Or maybe we won't. The new bill,...
Transportation: New Systems for the New Century
By the end of this decade, a new coordinated transportation system for the U.S. could consist of high speed rail, maglev, regional airports and highways built solely for trucks. It would...
Projects That Point
This is only a small sampling of what we can expect inthis decade. An $80 million kiln at Port Arthur, Tex., reportedly the largest of its kind in the U.S., handles bulk solids and sludges....
Retaining Forest Roads
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, manages a vast system of roads which provide access to America's national forests. More than 250,000 miles of roads exist...
Shopping for Better Project Management
The benefits of project management software are undisputed. Even a super manager needs help with scheduling, no matter how small or large a job. But, when it comes to selecting the right...
Deck Park Covers Phoenix Freeway
The last link in interstate I-10, the coast to coast highway from Florida to California, will be completed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1989. The last eleven-mile section through Phoenix has...
The Pros and Cons of Public Education
Today, engineers work for a public that has lost faith in the government's ability to spend money efficiently and to contain pollutants effectively. Many engineers now see...
Commuter Control
Traffic management systems are a relatively new way to expand the capacity of existing highways and to utilize new ones realistically. Several major systems have been in place and new...
Reconstruction Under Traffic: A Study of Some Effects of the Dan Ryan Project on Motor Carrier Operations in Northeast Illinois
The paper discusses preparations by the Chicago Area Transportation Study for a study of the operational responses of truckers to whatever effects upon the regional highway system are...
Land Use Implication of Urban Intermodal Operations
In order to efficiently handle freight in an urban/suburban environment requires a working combination of roads and facilities, both of which consume land. Land in turn is one of the most...
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