Category: Transportation Engineering

Transportation Designers Avoid Cemeteries – and Not Just on Halloween

By Troy Robillard, PE Our transportation engineers avoid cemeteries at all costs – not because they’re spooky (especially on Halloween) but because having a road run into a burial site causes all sorts of headaches for clients, contractors, and the design team. A current intersection reconstruction project on CTH CE and Railroad Street in the… Read More »

How to Make Curves Safer: High Friction Surface Treatment One of Many Options

The I-43/I-41 HFST shows up as a texturized surface that improves grip on this curved fly-over ramp. Verville Roth By Phillip Verville III, PE, and William Roth, PE Traveling down a straight stretch of highway generally is not a high-risk endeavor. Throw in a curve and some rain or snow, though, and your chances of… Read More »

Good Sign: Creativity Promotes Three E’s of Traffic Safety

As the Ace of Base song says, “I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes…” Before that, the Five Man Electrical Band (and later Tesla) declared “signs, signs, everywhere a sign.” And the musical duo Hall & Oates were “looking for a good sign” in the 1980s. Driving along the roadway, you’ll see… Read More »