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A -- RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT -- - ANNOUNCEMENT OF NCHRP RESEARCH ALLOCATIONS FOR FY '99 POC Brenda Sharek (202) 334-2176 Announcement of NCHRP Research Allocations for 1998 (FY '99) The Research Committee for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials met in Washington, D.C., on March 24-25, 1998, and selected the following new projects for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program in fiscal year 1999: 1-38, Development of Design Features for Pavement Design and Rehabilitation; 3-57, Improved Communication of Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing Information to Drivers; 9-16, Superpave Mix Design Mechanical Property Test; 9-17, Accelerated Laboratory Rutting Tests; 9-18, QC/QA Procedures for Superpave Mixes; 10-55, Nonmetallic Reinforcement for Bridge Decks Using Composites; 12-52, LRFD Specifications for Horizontally Curved Steel Girder Highway Bridges; 12-53, Connection Between Simple-Span Precast Concrete Girders Made Continuous; 12-54, Integral Connections of Modern Steel Bridge Structures; 14-13, Benchmarking of Maintenance Activities and Empowerment of Maintenance Crews for Quality Performance; 17-18, AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan Implementation Support; 18-07, Losses in Prestressed Pretensioned High-Strength Concrete (HSC) Bridge Girders; 20-48, Accessibility of Non-English Language Transportation Information Resources; 21-06, Corrosion in the Soil Environment: Soil Resistivity Measurement; 22-16, Development and Testing of a New Guardrail System; 24-17, LRFD Deep Foundation Design; 25-16, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Small-Scale In-Kind Wetland Replacement Projects Versus Out-of-Kind Mitigation Banks; 25-17, Transportation Implications of Proposed Changes to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS); 25-18, Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Source Apportionment for Mobile Sources; 25-19, Identification of Methods and Techniques to Assess the Social and Economic Impacts of Transportation Projects; 25-20, Priority Projects on the Management of Highway Runoff. Preliminary scopes of work for each project are available on the Internet at http://www2.nas.edu/trbcrp under "Anticipated Projects." Project Statements inviting proposals will be available at the same Internet site beginning around August 1998. You may register electronically at the same site for notification of project statement postings. Inquiries may also be addressed to Manager NCHRP, Cooperative Research Programs, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418. (0112)

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