Tag: winter safety

  • April 18th, 2025

State transportation agencies have many tools available with which to maintain pavements proactively. These include tools such as pavement management systems to track roadway conditions and life cycle cost analysis tools. NCHRP Synthesis 623: Wintertime Pavement Maintenance Practices, from TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program, documents the current state DOT practices for the reactive pavement […]

  • April 8th, 2025

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 889: Performance Measures in Snow and Ice Control Operations presents approaches for monitoring the performance of snow and ice control activities by public agencies and proposes a core set of performance measures that can be customized and used by agencies to meet their snow and ice […]

  • March 7th, 2025

In 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which reauthorized surface transportation programs. This legislation allocated approximately $350 billion over a 5-year period to Federal highway programs with a focus on repairing roadways and bridges, with the opportunity to create jobs, boost the economy, and […]