New Exploratory Advanced Research Request for Proposals (Deadline 3/15/13)
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a Broad Agency announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals that address Exploratory Advanced Research topics. The Broad Agency Announcement (number DTFH61-13-R-00011) is open through March 15, 2013. Read More
Long-Term Pavement Performance New Standard Data Release 27
The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program makes the world’s largest pavement performance database available annually to the public on the Standard Data Release (SDR), which may be obtained through LTPP Customer Support Services. More Details
Emission Reductions, Fuel Savings Demonstrated at Turner-Fairbank
TFHRC’s intelligent intersection delivers SPaT and GID data to a test vehicle equipped with a DSRC modem, computer processor, and a display device to provide the driver with speed advice. Read More
Meininger Helps Exhibit Rocks and Roads at Natural History Museum
On September 29, Richard Meininger (rear), a civil engineer and member of FHWA’s pavement materials research team, and Mengesha Beyene (front), a geologist and contractor at TFHRC, volunteered their time at an educational event on rocks and geology at the National Museum of Natural History. Read More
Researchers Develop Field Device for Bridge Scour Testing
Researchers at the FHWA J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory are developing a scour testing field device that could make foundation construction less difficult and less expensive.Read More
CMF Study Expected to Bolster Support for Safety EdgeSM Treatment
Safety EdgeSM is installed during paving using a commercially available shoe that attaches to existing equipment in just a few minutes. Read More
PBES Being Used by 40 States
Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems are structural components of a bridge that are built away from the final bridge alignment to reduce the time of onsite construction and mobility impact that affects the traveling public. To date, 40 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and all 3 Federal Lands Highway Divisions have elected to implement PBES into their bridge design and construction programs. Read More
FHWA's Graybeal—A Rising Star
The Federal Highway Administration's Benjamin Graybeal was recognized by Structural Engineer magazine for his research and technical capability in high-performance concrete bridge engineering and bridge standards. Read More
FHWA Presolicitation for Support and Research in the Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory
This is a Federal Highway Administration presolicitation notice (synopsis) for a full and open competition. The Office of Operations Research and Development (R&D;) at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), McLean, Virginia, needs technical support to conduct research, development, test, and evaluation activities. Go to this solicitation at FedBizOps
Stop! Red Light Ahead
A vehicle warns a driver who is approaching a red light. Vehicle and infrastructure real-time communication through wireless technology is a part of the Cooperative Vehicle-Highway testbed at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.
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2011 FHWA Infrastructure Research and Technology Strategic Plan
The work of the Office of Infrastructure R&D; is carried out as an integral part of FHWA's broader Infrastructure Research and Technology (R&T;) Program. Take a look at the agency-wide R&T; goals and strategic objectives in the 2011 FHWA Infrastructure Research and Technology Strategic Plan.
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Telling the R&T Story: The Value of Research…
This publication details how the Federal Highway Administration is advancing its research and technology programs to meet the Nation’s needs, including select examples of state-of-the-art technologies being developed and implemented such as highway safety software, intelligent traffic lights, and the deployment of prefabricated bridge elements and systems.
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