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Special Transportation Research Board 2013 Report

Apr 03, 2013

‘Bio-Binder’ Green Modifiers Star at TRB By Tom Kuennen, Contributing Editor The emerging universe of biologically based modified asphalts got significant exposure at the 92nd annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, D.C. Better Roads was there. More than 11,700 ...

New Road Products

Apr 03, 2013

Special coverage from the World of Asphalt trade show in San Antonio and the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville Text INFO to 205-289-3789 or visit www.betterroads.com/info Dynapac Transverse-engined soil compactors Dynapac introduced a new range of soil compactors at World of Asphalt with a ...

A Base Stacked for Strength

Apr 03, 2013

The engineering fabric shown here forms a bond breaker between the cement-treated base and the concrete pavement. If it’s a super-stout pavement base model you’re looking for, look no further than the Des Moines (Ia.) International Airport. Last summer, Manatts ...

Are We Choosing Failure Over Success?

Apr 03, 2013

Early in my career, I worked for a special interest consumer magazine that was getting beaten badly by the competition. In a series of meetings about how to save our magazine and our jobs, we identified the reasons we were ...

A Modern Magazine

Apr 03, 2013

The evolution of the magazine continues. Not just this magazine, but all of them are in a state of change in this digital, online, etc., age. Reports of the death of the magazine are, however, as Mr. Twain observed about ...

Measuring Misery

Mar 06, 2013

Inside the highway and bridge industries by John Latta, jlatta@randallreilly.com The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has come up with The Planning Time Index (PTI). It is a way to measure the degree of commute unreliability, introduced for the first time as ...

Pass it On

Mar 06, 2013

Master the ownership transition game By Brian Moore Who comes after you? The ownership transition and succession of closely held businesses is one of the greatest challenges in the engineering and construction industry. Leading industry consultants FMI recently surveyed contractors to gauge where they ...

Integrating Roadside Vegetation and Erosion Control

Mar 06, 2013

Safety and the mowing-herbicide-beautification-erosion control-culvert maintenance mix By Tom Kuennen, Contributing Editor Integrated roadside management programs are being adopted at state and county road agencies because they combine the multiple missions of vegetation management, roadside beautification, motorist safety, erosion control and roadway ...

New Road Products

Mar 06, 2013

Text INFO to 205-289-3789 or visit www.betterroads.com/info Wirtgen Intelligent concrete paver, modular design Wirtgen’s full-lane-width SP 80i concrete slipform paver was introduced to North America at World of Concrete 2013. The “i” stands for “intelligent” power and emissions control systems. The paver’s modular ...

Rap Up

Mar 06, 2013

Making high-RAP mixes -- an art and a science By Daniel C. Brown, Contributing Editor Many state transportation departments have saved tens of millions of dollars by using reclaimed asphalt pavement. RAP is worth the same as the virgin materials it replaces. ...

Handling Ice

Mar 06, 2013

A school for your pickup+equipment trailer winter drivers by Larry Walton, Associate Editor, ProPickup magazine Other contractors take the same approach that I do to towing on ice behind a pickup: try to avoid it. But there are times when leaving the ...

Munich in Winter

Mar 06, 2013

Before next month’s huge bauma construction equipment trade show in Munich, Germany, the world’s largest this year, was January’s two-day pre-bauma media dialogue. It was wet, cold, snowy, windy and a blast. I have my favorite indoor and warm places there. ...

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