May 2014 Volume 84, Number 5
Contents
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PRODUCTS & SERVICE
24 New Road Products 26 Advertiser Index 27 Marketplace
3 Transportation Talk:
Finding strategies that work
and fail in transportation
advocacy.
22 In Court: Claims against the Georgia
Department of Transportation for increased
material costs are denied due to failure to
comply with claim-notice requirements.
28 The Last Word: A Missouri DOT
employee gets around congested highways
by skydiving.
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
Contribute:
If your agency or crew has
worked on an exceptional project,
or if you want to share your
thoughts on current transporta-
tion issues, email your ideas for
a blog or contributed story to
Online Managing Editor Amanda
Bayhi at
amanda.bayhi@randallreilly.
com
and Editor-at-Large Tina Grady
Barbaccia at
tinabarbaccia@gmail.com.
Educate Yourself...And Your Elected Offi cials:
Resources on our website can help you learn more about highway funding
and how to urge your elected offi cials to invest in infrastructure. betterroads.com/
educate-yourself
New technologies and products can extend pavement life to
help address the chronic pavement problems of the highway
and bridge building industry. Web extra: Bridge Building on Alaska's
North Slope: Four bridges integral to the Alpine Satellite Development Program
faced environmental challenges.
Buying Time With U.S. Bridges
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ROAD SCIENCE: Down to Earth
HIGHWAY CONTRACTOR:
Size Matters in Mix Grades
and Aggregate Shapes
Some geosynthetics enhance pavement longevity by separat-
ing good materials from bad while others promote water flow
from pavement structures as they facilitate drainage. Web extra:
Geosynthetics in bridge building.
Whether it's dense-graded, open-graded or gap-
graded mix or stone-matrix asphalt, mix design and
aggregate shape impact compaction.
Top Reads:
•
5 Options for Avoiding Highway Trust Fund Insolvency: betterroads.com/5-options-avoid-htf-insolvency
• VIDEO: Watch these crews slide a half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place over the Ohio River:
betterroads.com/moving-milton-madison
Essential Communication for Winter Emergency Preparedness Sara Croke, president of Weather or
Not Inc., discusses the conversations snow managers should have with local meteorologists to prepare
for winter storms. betterroads.com/communication-for-winter-preparedness
On the cover: Photo courtesy of Bergkamp.
