Entering a Roundabout and See Flashing Lights Behind You? Keep Calm, and Carry On
It’s 5:30 p.m., and you’re just hitting the road for your commute home. With kids buckled in the back seat and the bag of groceries you just picked up tucked away in the trunk, you’re homeward-bound – and then you see flashing emergency lights in your rearview mirror. And to complicate matters, you’ve just entered… Read More »
Tags: Emergency Vehicles, Roundabouts, Traffic, Transportation
Training Flume Helps Engineers Get Their Hands Wet – And Keep Their Roads Dry
How much water can a culvert pass? Which pavement inlets work best? Does a liner change a pipe’s capacity? What problems can arise when there’s just too much water? Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Ayres Associates engineers have designed a training tool to help transportation engineers answer these and many more questions about highway drainage… Read More »
Tags: Drainage, FHWA, Flume, Hydraulic Structures, National Highway Institute, Training
South Carolina Dam Failures Point to Need for Emergency Action Plans
This map provided by the state of South Carolina shows the large number of roads and bridges closed across the state as of Monday, October 12. Lives lost. Houses under water. Roads and bridges washed away. Dams failing. The images and stories coming out of South Carolina over the continuing catastrophe have been horrific and… Read More »
Tags: Dam, Emergency Action Plan, Flooding, Fort Collins, South Carolina
