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                FHWA R&T Now Newsletter - March/April 2018
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POLICY & PARTNERSHIPS
	ATTRI Leads the Way with Wayfinding and Navigation Project
		FHWA’s R&T Evaluation Program Documents Past Projects and Future Plans
	INFRASTRUCTURE
	Leveraging Augmented Reality (AR) for Highway Construction Workshop
		LTPP New Data Collection Contract
		Upcoming Workshop at TFHRC – Advanced Ultrasonic Inspection Applications for Steel Bridge Welds
		Advanced Sensing Technology for Health Monitoring of Infrastructures
	SAFETY
	Head-on Crash Test at TFHRC Assesses Roadside Barriers
		FHWA’s Office of Safety R&D Releases Latest Version of IHSDM
	RECENT PERIODICALS
	Public Roads—Winter 2018
		Innovator: Accelerating Innovation for the American Driving Experience—March/April 2018ABOUT FHWA R&T NOW

FHWA R&T Now is a newsletter containing information and updates about research, technology, and development from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The newsletter is an electronic newsletter and is updated approximately every other month.

Send your comments, questions, and feedback to FHWA_Now@dot.gov.



Online access:https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/rtnow/.

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Federal Highway Administration
FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology
Attention: Dawn Vanlandingham
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA 22101
              Publishing Date:March 2018
              Posting Date:03/01/2018
                          Notes:**This newsletter is an archived publication and may contain dated technical, contact, and link information.**

**Distribution**–FHWA R&T Now is being distributed according to a standard distribution. Direct distribution is being made to the FHWA Divisions and Resource Center.

**Key Words**–Infrastructure, Operations, Safety, EAR, exploratory advanced research, research, V2X Hub, technology transfer, T2, nondestructive evaluation, NDE lab, crowdsourcing, CACC, cooperative adaptive cruise control, vehicle string, crash test, cell phone, managed lanes, alkali-silica reaction, ASR, simulator, asphalt, pavement test facility, indirect tensile-cracking test.

**Notice**–This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the USDOT in the interest of information exchange. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for the use of the information contained in this document.

The U.S. Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. Trademarks or manufacturers' names appear in this report only because they are considered essential to the objective of the document.

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