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Adventure Cycling raises more than $128,000 for bike routes during National Bike Month
(Photo: Peter Fagerbacka / Flickr)
Adventure Cycling Association has announced its fourth annual Build It. Bike It. Be a Part of It. campaign raised more than $128,000 for the U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS) last month.
The campaign is held in ... Read More...
FHWA hosts webinar on AASHTO’s PaveSuite
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will host a webinar on PaveSuite on May 22 from 2:30 p.m. until 4 p.m. Eastern Time, according to AASHTO Journal.
The webinar, titled “SR500 NHI Innovations: PaveSuite, Transforming Pavement Data into Informed Decision Making,” will ... Read More...
AASHTO Committee approves new routes, realignments in U.S. Bicycle Route System
(Photo: KurtClark / Flickr)
Following the start of this year’s U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS) fundraising campaign, a joint effort between the Adventure Cycling Association and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) U.S. Bicycle Route System, ... Read More...
Adventure Cycling, AASHTO kick off bike route campaign
Adventure Cycling Association is coordinating with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) U.S. Bicycle Route System to host the fourth annual month-long U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS) fundraising campaign with the hope of raising $100,000 by the ... Read More...
AASHTO hosts 9th annual Faces of Transportation photo contest
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AAASHTO) is hosting its ninth annual Faces of Transportation photography contest, which focuses on the people and projects that are making communities better and emphasizes the importance of transportation.
Transportation department employees ... Read More...
One Stop Shopping: AASHTO’s guide to state transportation funding initiatives
Which state is doing what to fund transportation infrastructure projects?
It can be hard keeping up as almost every states tries to find new money in hard times with increasing pressure from the infrastructure itself, whether it is simply aging or ... Read More...
Special Transportation Research Board 2013 Report
‘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 ... Read More...
AASHTO delivers online database on state transportation finances and government
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Center for Excellence in Project Finance has released an online database on state transportation finance and governance. Building on the existing state-by-state informational database on highway finance, the new resource is ... Read More...
Louisiana Transportation Research Center director appointed to lead AASHTO committees
Harold "Skip" Paul, P.E., director of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's Louisiana Transportation Research Center, has been appointed to serve in leadership positions on two American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) committees, according to a ... Read More...
Guest Blog Post: Upping the RAP – Putting Research into Practice
All too often, a research project is completed and the final report just sits on a shelf. But, if an
Matt Beeson, P.E., asphalt engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation
agency invests a little effort in exploring how the results ... Read More...
Florida, California transportation projects named best in nation
Two high-profile transportation projects took home the top honors in the 5th annual America's Transportation Award competition. The awards were announced Nov. during the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) annual meeting in Pittsburgh.
AASHTO, AAA, and the ... Read More...
Road Science
On the Face of It
Aggregate performance depends on its surface
The higher-performing bituminous and portland cement concrete mixes of today are becoming more complex, and to ensure performance, more scrutiny is being given to the chemistry and composition of the aggregates ... Read More...
