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Innovative Highway Technologies

Sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

Keeping the more than 4 million miles of streets and highways and the 600,000 bridges in the United States in safe and serviceable condition is a huge job for state and local highway agencies. Innovative highway design and maintenance technologies evaluated and enhanced under the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) can make that job easier.

This web site is intended to help spread the word about the use and benefits of those SHRP technologies, which have been categorized into the following seven technology areas:

  • Pavement Preservation
  • Superpave (mix design system for asphalt concrete pavements)
  • Alkali-Silica Reactivity
  • Innovative Pavement Maintenance Materials
  • Concrete Assessment and Rehabilitation
  • High-Performance Concrete
  • Anti-Icing/Road Weather Information Systems

    Under the Lead States Program, teams were designated for each of the technology areas, to ensure that practical, real-world experience gained by early adopters of SHRP technologies would be shared among all the States. The teams included representatives from state highway agencies that had moved ahead in implementing SHRP technologies, as well as their partners in industry, academia, and the Federal Highway Administration.

    The Lead States Program came to an end in the fall of 2000. The teams transferred their responsibilities for continuing and follow-on work to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and Transportation Research Board committees. The Teams prepared Transition Plans detailing the results of their work and setting out recommendation for the future. For complete details on the teams' accomplishments, see the Transition Plans in the sections of the web site for each technology area. A successor program, managed by the AASHTO Technology Implementation Group, has taken over the task of identifying and championing the implementation of "ready-to-use" technologies.

    This web site provides information about field trials, research projects, events, training opportunities, publications, and other resources relating to the seven technology areas, as well as names and contact information for members of the Lead States teams. In addition, you can participate in online question-and-answer discussions about the technologies. You can search within a specific technology area or across all areas.

    The latest news and information for each technology area is highlighted in the “What’s New” pages.


    • See also the web site for the AASHTO Technology Implementation Group