Category: Transportation Engineering

One-Way or the Other? Two-Way Traffic Conversion Requires Study

By Alexander Cowan, PE, PTOE A drive through the downtown area of many American cities includes time spent on one-way streets. Cities have used short segments of one-way traffic for hundreds of years to try to improve traffic flow and move higher volumes of traffic along downtown arterials. However, in recent years many communities have… Read More »

Who Knows What You’ll Find When Building Roads

This giant boulder revealed itself during reconstruction of a city street. By Andy Dana, PE Design plans for road construction are just that – plans. However, sometimes those plans hit, shall we say, a roadblock. About the Expert: Andy Dana, PE, is a transportation project manager in Ayres’ Green Bay office. He has been involved… Read More »

Selecting the Appropriate Intersection Control

By Kevin Kuhlow Studies by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration indicate that of all the traffic accidents that occur in the United States in a given year, fully half occur at intersections. And, on average, those intersection crashes account for 25 percent of all U.S. traffic fatalities. About the Expert: Kevin Kuhlow,… Read More »