All staff are encouraged to submit articles (roughly 1,200 words). Describe a technical challenge that you encountered on a project, and explain the innovative techniques and unique solutions that you devised to solve the problem. You can write about the topics below, or anything else of professional interest to others around the world. See “Call for Articles” on page 103 for guidelines.

Issue 61. 2nd quarter '05. Taming Intersection Congestion: Innovative Analysis, Planning, Operations and Design Solutions

This issue will cover innovative analysis, planning, operations and design techniques used to meet the challenges of high-volume intersections. Topics will include roundabouts, unconventional arterial intersections, road "diets," urban interchanges (such as SPUI's), access management, traffic signal timings and systems, microsimulations tools for traffic modeling, and intersections with transit or other modes.

Contact Jonathan Reid (Charlotte, North Carolina, 704-342-5401, reid@pbworld.com). To be co-sponsored by the PANs for Traffic Engineering and Operations; Travel Modeling & Simulation; Intelligent Transportation Systems, and others.

Issue 62. Tunneling and Geotechnical Engineering

PB engineers are working on many major tunneling projects around the world, such as the planning of a major highway tunnel in Seattle, the design of an undercrossing of the Bosporus in Turkey, subway tunnels in Shanghai, New York, and San Francisco, and the construction of a deep tunnel sewer system in Singapore. Several William Barclay Parsons Fellows are compiling research handbooks on a number of related subjects from earth pressure balance tunnel boring machines, to designing for explosions in tunnels, and analyzing construction related vibration. Additional topics may include security of underground spaces, ground modification, long-span bridge foundations, combined sewer overflow projects, and other state-of-the-art applications.

Deadline: May 2005. Contact Gordon Clark, Seattle, 206-382-5246, clark@pbworld.com. To be co-sponsored by PANs for Geotechnical engineering, Tunnel/Underground engineering, the Geotechnical and Tunneling Service Center, and others.

Issue 63. ‘Engineering – Systems and Quality Approaches’ also featuring Technologies, Innovation & Knowledge Practices

Systems engineering is a discipline that formalizes much or what we do as consulting engineers every day—it is a fundamental part of the problem solving process. Quality engineering is something that we do as professionals to provide world-class, valuable and timely solutions. In this issue of PB Network we aim to draw out these aspects from the wide range of things we do around the world, thus identifying common threads from disparate parts of the business and thereby facilitating technology transfer, the identification of potential synergies and the development of best practices. This issue will also cover the exciting topics of Technology, Innovation and Knowledge Practice; building on the themes from this year’s Technical Exchange Program (TEP). We invite you to submit articles that focus on how you are using systems & quality engineering. What methods, systems, technologies and techniques have you tried? What challenges have you faced? How have you met these challenges? What lessons did you learn along the way? Articles describing new technologies, exciting inventions or innovations and, on developing Knowledge Practices in PB are also solicited.

Deadline: September 2005. Please let Alan Knott, the guest technical editor for this issue, have any ideas or contributions you would like to see included (knott@pbworld.com).