Better Roads Digital Magazine
Issue link: https://read.dmtmag.com/i/85911
March 2012 Volume 82. Number 3 Contents Cover photo courtesy of FIGG: The Selmon Expressway, Tampa, Fla. DIGITAL EDITION EXTRA SPECIALS BetterRoads.com Analyzing IC The Intelligent Asphalt Compaction Analyzer (IACA), a quality-control tool that relates pavement responses after a test strip correlation to an estimated compaction value in real time, is almost ready for the commercial market. Living with Tier 4 The kind of engine you get in equipment for the next few years depends on some tricky EPA math. So selecting them, and looking after them, is going to be a specialized job. In Court Our new legal columnist Brian Morrow looks at a case where the Federal Highway Administration's rejection of a low bid to widen and reconstruct a road is overturned in court. New Road Products Still they keep coming, too many to run in print, so check out the digital edition for an extended list, heavy with World of Concrete introductions. Connect to Better Roads at wwww.LinkedIn.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/BetterRoadsFB Twitter: www.Twitter.com/BetterRoads COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 3 Lattatudes 4 RoadWorks Industry news and goings on 32 American Iron 44 Kirk Landers PRODUCTS & SERVICES 40 Marketplace 43 Advertiser Index Better Roads March 2012 1 28 APPLICATIONS & INNOVATIONS Safety Software Going digital with safety management can help get employees on board, improve safety records, streamline safety training and help you become a better organization. 17 ROADSCIENCE Reaping Research Benefits The annual Transportation Research Board meeting in D.C. delivers some very cool science and some breakthroughs than can make your work easier and help you get more for your time, effort and money. We look at selected papers on intelligent compaction, accelerated bridge construction, RAP and recycled concrete aggregate. CONTRACTOR Cutting Grass Rapid City, S.D., handles an increasingly common problem – how to get work done, in this case roadside vegetation management, with dwindling funds. HIGHWAY 8 Cutting NEW