National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418

A -- ANNOUNCEMENT OF NCHRP RESEARCH ALLOCATIONS FOR 1996 POC Crawford Jencks, 202/334-3224. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Standing Committee on Research met in Washington, D.C., on March 21 and 22, 1995 and selected the following new projects for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program in fiscal year 1996; 1-35, Quantifying Life-Cycle Cost Benefits of Pavement Designs Incorporating Geotextiles as Separators; 1-36, Determination of Pavement Damage from Super-Single and Singled-Out Dual Tires; 3-56, Systemwide Impact of Safety and Traffic Operation Design and Decisions for Resurfacing, Restoration, or Rehabilitation (RRR) Projects; 3-57, Geometric Design Procedures for Controlled-Access Highways to Better Accommodate Incident Management; 3-58, Extent of Red Light Violations and Countermeasures to Reduce Them; 3-59, The Justification and Design of Auxiliary Lanes, On and Off Ramps, and Freeway-to-Freeway Ramps; 4-23, Aggregate Tests Related to Performance of Unbound Pavement Layers; 4-24, HDPE Pipe Material Specifications and Design Requirements; 5-15, Optimum Light Distribution for Vehicle Traffic Signal Indications; 9-9, Refinement of SHRP Gyratory Compaction Technique; 9-10, Applicability of SHRP Binder Tests and SUPERPAVE to Mixtures Containing Modified Asphalt Binders; 10-47, Standards for Profile Measurement Accuracy; 10-48, Study of Distress Data and Pavement Deflection Data to Determine Pavement Layer Characterics; 10-49, Improved Contracting Systems for Highway Construction Projects; 10-50, Methods of Rehabilitating Rigid Pavements Concurrent with Heavy Traffic; 10-51, Performance-Related Tests for Elastomeric Bridge Bearings; 12-43, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Bridges; 12-44, Standard Specifications for Moveable Highway Bridges; 12-45, Development and Verification of Design Criteria and Specifications for Flexible and Rigid Large-Span Culverts; 15-15, Improve Data Collection Methods for Roadway Feature Inventory, Database Update, and Mapping Update; 17-13, Strategic Plan for Improving Roadside Safety; 17-14, Effect of Median Width and Slope on the Frequency and Severity of Cross-Median Accidents on Rural Roadways; 18-4, Long-Term Durability of Concrete Used in ``Early-Opening-to-Traffic'' Pavement Rehabilitation; 20-43, Application of CD-ROM Technology for AASHTO Specifications; 21-6, Applying Advanced Technology Particle-Size Analyzer to Soil Sizing and Characterization; 22-13, Performance of Roadside Barriers; 25-12, Evaluation and Development of a Modified Wet Detention Pond as a Management Practice for Control of Highway Runoff Pollution and a Comparison to Traditional Dry Ponds. Project Statements inviting proposals for research on most of these projects are scheduled to be issued during the second half of 1995, and research is expected to begin early in 1996. A preliminary announcement containing more details on these problems was distributed in April to all those on the NCHRP project-statement mailing list. Prospective proposers may be added to the mailing list by writing to Program Officer, Cooperative Research Programs, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418. (114)

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