$3.5 million CP Tech Center and FAA research agreement takes off
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The National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with substantial help from the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), signed a $3.5 million cooperative agreement in late September.
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Per the agreement, the CP Tech Center will administer wide-ranging design, materials, and construction research contracts for the new Airport Pavement Technology Program (APTP) over the next five years. More
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Granular Roads Asset Management System (GRAMS) tool can aid agencies
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Gravel roads account for more than 60 percent of the roads managed by Iowa counties. However, until now, there haven’t been readily available tools to help agencies evaluate granular material costs versus field performance.
To help agencies evaluate and optimize their operational strategies for their granular material purchases and use, researchers recently created the Granular Roads Asset Management System (GRAMS) spreadsheet tool. More
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ATSPMs make traffic signal management proactive, not reactive
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Traffic signal management is an ongoing struggle for local municipalities. The desire to improve safety and service is often at odds with congestion and costs. That is where ATSPMs, better known as automated traffic signal performance measures, come in.
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Christopher Day, an affiliate researcher at InTrans, who has worked with various Iowa cities and counties in adopting ATSPMs, said the manual collection of traffic data and continued dependence on software modeling often result in huge losses. But with ATSPMs, signal retiming efforts now can be based directly on actual performance, which can speed up an agency’s data-logging capability to proactively identify and correct deficiencies. More
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Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winners named
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2020 has been a year where everyone has had to learn to adapt and make use of what we have in innovative ways. For city and county essential workers, this is nothing new.
That’s why each year the Iowa LTAP Build a Better Mousetrap contest spotlights those public works staffs that have best solved a common problem they encounter with an inventive—and often simple—idea. More
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AMPP’s Buss receives faculty fellowship See Story
InTrans graduate receives environmental award See Story
New videos posted to spotlight InTrans research impacts Watch Now
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