TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES TAKE TO THE PARKS: CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INNOVATIONS IMPROVE AESTHETICS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND SAFETY

National parks are successfully deploying innovative, transportation-related technologies through a partnership between the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the U.S. Department of Interior's National Park Service (NPS). Through its three Federal Lands Highway (FLH) Divisions, FHWA is responsible for engineering safe and environmentally sensitive roadways and bridges at national parks and on other federal lands. This article presents highlights of key technologies that the FLH Divisions have deployed or plan to deploy in national parks. Among these technologies are electronic enhancements such as Advanced Traveler Information Systems, Global Positioning System technology to monitor buses, and intelligent transportation systems; grassy pull-offs; software customizing; FLH's Road Inventory Program software; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; high-performance concrete; materials recycling; seismic reflection-holography technique for assessing ground conditions around an existing tunnel and a proposed parallel facility; an historic wall management program; and a time domain reflectometry system of sensors for remote road monitoring, air quality monitoring and other uses.

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• Authors:
  • Brown, G L
  • Gourdine, M
  • Roberts, B J
  • Surdahl, R W
  • Woll, J H
• Publication Date: 2004-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 4-13
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 233
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Aesthetics; Communications; Global Positioning System; High performance concrete; Historic preservation; Intelligent transportation systems; National parks; Partnerships; Recycled materials; Retaining walls; Safety; Software; Technological innovations; Time domain reflectometers
• Identifier Terms: National Park Service; U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Grassy pull-offs; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar; Seismic reflection holography
• Subject Areas: Highways; History; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00978505
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 20 2004 12:00AM