Highways & Roads

Highway electronic resources - National association, governmental, or industry

1. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) (Washington, DC)
2. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Database
3. American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) (Washington, DC)
4. Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC) (Washington, DC)
   See also: HITEC Highlights issues
5. LTAP (Local Technical Assistance Program)
   • Information clearing house, training materials, technology updates, links to highway and road web sites, organizations, "tips from the field", videos, and more
6. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) (Washington, DC)
7. National Highway Institute (training arm of the Federal Highway Administration) See also: course catalog.
8. National Transportation Library
9. Pavement.biz - a web site for pavement engineering (formerly PaveNet)
10. Transportation Research Board (TRB) (Washington, DC)
    • Highway Capacity Manual
    • Research in Progress Database
    • Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) (active from 1988 to 1993)
11. U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
    • National Highway Institute (training arm of the FHWA)
    • Office of Highway Policy Information (repository of highway information and statistics, using highway-related data from federal, state and local sources)
    • Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (McLean, VA)
      See also: Individual laboratory profiles

Highway electronic resources - U.S. state

1. California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (California PATH)
2. Texas Transportation Institute

Highway electronic resources - International

1. Finnish National Road Administration
2. Highway Engineering Exchange Program (HEEP)
3. Institute of Transportation Engineers (Washington, DC)
4. Institution of Highways and Transportation (UK)
5. International Road Federation (Geneva, Switzerland)
   • World Road Statistics
6. International Road Transport Union
7. International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD)
8. Pan American Institute of Highways
9. Transportation Research Group (University of Cambridge, UK)
10. World Road Association--PIARC (France)
    • World Interchange Network

Highway electronic resources - Alerts (newsgroups, listserv, etc.)

1. Congestion Pricing Listserv
2. MISC.TRANSPORT.ROAD: Usenet and Google group newsgroup for discussion of all aspects of road / highway transportation and design
3. SCI.ENGR.CIVIL: Usenet news group for civil engineering
4. Road Transport Technology Mailing List (Transportation Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK)

Highway federal research and technology program

Highway full-text materials

1. Community Impacts of Transportation Planning (Finnish National Road Administration)
2. Milestones for U.S. Highway Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration in Public Roads Spring 1996 issue
3. Nonconventional Concrete Technologies: Renewal of the Highway Infrastructure [National Academy Press, 1997]

Highway magazines and serials

1. Better Roads (monthly magazine)
2. Civil engineering journals on the Internet [Courtesy of Lund University]
3. Civil Engineering Magazine (ASCE)
4. Focus (monthly magazine, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Deptartment of Transportation)
5. Journal of Transportation Engineering (monthly journal, ASCE)
6. Public Roads Magazine (bi-monthly magazine, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Deptartment of Transportation)
7. Public Works Magazine
8. Research & Technology Transporter (monthly newsletter, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Deptartment of Transportation)
9. Roads & Bridges (monthly magazine)
10. TR News (bi-monthly magazine, Transportation Research Board (TRB))

Highway special topics

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