| Introduction: R&D
is a PB Tradition (Bohlke)
William Barclay
Parsons Fellowship Program Fellows and Finalists
Special Feature Section
Behind the Scenes: U.S. Federal Programs
and PB Accounting Methods
Goals Set
By TRB’s Strategic Forum for Innovation In Highway Infrastructure
(Lammie)
An Overview
of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (Douglas)
Transit
Cooperative Research Program: What, Why and Who (Douglas)
The “Back
Office” of PB’s R&D and Cost Share Activities
(Shein)
Yesterday’s Visions Becoming Tomorrow’s
Realities
Demo ‘97 Shows
the Latest in Automated Highway Systems (AHS) (Angha)
Combining New
Technologies to Achieve Seamless Transportation (Bohlke)
Recent Advances are Changing Design And
Construction
Integral
Connections Improve Seismic Performance of Segmental Bridges
(Murillo, Dubovik)
Unique Ground
Improvement Designs for Seismic Retrofit of Posey and Webster Street
Tubes (Hashash, Schmidt, Stimac)
Writing the
Book: Slurry Walls as Part of the Final Structure (Brenner)
Writing the Book:
A Light Rail Track Design Handbook (Martyn, Allen)
ITS Leads the Way In Highway, Rail and
Transit Management
MIST®
Maintains Market Leadership Through R&D (Schumitz,
Spence)
NY-WINS: Providing
Real-Time Traffic Information to Motorists (Cronin,
Marshall, Villeneuve)
RT-TRACS: Evaluation
of Optimized Policies for Adaptive Control (OPAC) (Andrews)
Software Development Facilitates Planning
and Engineering Analysis
Pen-Based Computer
Technology Goes Seismic (Earl, Oak)
Update on PBLOGIT
(Evans)
Update on SIMMOD:
Hi-Tech Airport Modeling (van Woensel)
Internal and External R&D Address a
Wide Range of Topics
Arterial HOV
Research Activities: Innovative Ways to Achieve Priority for Transit
and Carpools (Wellander, Serres)
How to Get to the
Ball Game (Grava)
Making the
Connection: Research on Transportation and Land Use (Seskin)
GIS R&D: Two Unique
Applications (Brown)
Secondary and
Cumulative Impact Assessment For Transportation Projects (Page,
Parkins)
Departments
PB Technotes:
You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Optimal Width- and Depth-Constrained
Open-Channel Cross Sections of Trapezoidal Shape (Froehlich)
Better Business
Through Technology: Can MS Exchange Help My Office with ISO 9000
Certification? (Cipolloni, Reddan, Patton)
Keep It Simple (Plotkin)
Computer Tutor: PowerPoint
(Version 4.0) Revisited (Beebe, Mayans)
Help Wanted
The Net View: Opening Day:
December 15, 1995 (Brenner)
In Future Issues
Call for Articles
Editorial Staff
Cover Page
COVER PHOTOS:
Top: Rendering of Integral connection used for span-by-span segmental
bridge construction (©1997 Yuhe Yang and Mike Sparling). See
“Integral Connections...” p. 19.
Bottom left: Rendering of rail extender concept with small locomotive.
See “Combining New Technologies...” p.17.
Bottom right: Automated steering at highway speed in AHS demonstration
(©1997 Gerald Stone, PAT |