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Dowel Bar Retrofit: Where Are We Now?
Great ideas don’t always have to born in the moment or generated by a mainframe super computer. Sometimes it is as simple as looking back to what has performed well in the past and continues to do so...
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Kandiyohi County uses aggregate base stabilizer on damaged county road
Located in central Minnesota, Kandiyohi County proudly maintains a 649-mile highway system, which includes 452 miles of bituminous roads and 197 miles of gravel roads, as well as 69 bridges. In the...
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Disposal of Concrete Grinding Residue
Spreading should begin a minimum of 1 foot from the shoulder, with each pass of the grinder moving the spread¬ing operation farther down the slope to ensure no build-up of grinding residue. An area of...
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5 Ways to Maximize Your Vegetation Management Budget
Tighter vegetation management budgets call for hard-working strategies. It’s a common conundrum — as challenges controlling invasive weeds and brush increase, vegetation management budgets decrease....
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Cal Poly Pomona engineering students get real-world road building experience...
Shutterstock image If you want to be a transportation engineer in Southern California, your chances improve dramatically when you have Xudong Jia as your professor. At California State Polytechnic...
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Kosciusko County Turns to Liquid Calcium Chloride to Improve Road Base...
Workers applied three inches of aggregate to the road surface in the early stages of the Kosciusko County road base stabilization project. Situation The Kosciusko (Indiana) County Highway Department...
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Essential Communication for Winter Emergency Preparedness
Photo courtesy of Weather or Not Should snow bosses interpret a 70-percent chance for snow after midnight to mean that crews should be on the road by midnight? Maybe – maybe not. Having conversations...
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Roundabouts And Intersections: Two Traffic Control Devices, Many Options
In North America, non-orthagonal roundabouts are becoming a more common site. Roundabout design was once a task that drove engineers around the bend. Accounting for so many variables in the early...
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Inflation is Key
Maintaining Optimal Tire Pressure is Essential to a Successful Preventative Maintenance Program Advanced systems can be installed on each trailer tire to monitor pressure. Some systems also can keep...
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Behind the resurfacing of an Iowa highway
When looking up miscellaneous statistics, you learn that average life of a U.S. currency $10 bill is 4.2 years, and a common goldfish – properly cared for – will last 7 to 14 years before going belly...
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