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For the latest news visit: insights.wsp-pb.com For career opportunities visit wsp-pb.com/usa 2 scanner | SUMMER 2016 | ashe.pro Larry Ridlen, PE ASHE National President 2016-2017 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HIGHWAY ENGINEERS hat a distinguished privilege to serve as the National President of a OFFICERS 2016 - 2017 Larry Ridlen, PE, President great organization like ASHE. I am truly honored by the opportunity, Greg Dutton, PE, First Vice President Wand I promise to serve to my upmost capabilities. I could not be your President Richard Cochrane, PE, Second Vice President Robert Hochevar, PE, Past President without the influence of numerous individuals within the ASHE organization for Charles Flowe, PE, Secretary whom I have enormous respect. These individuals include Past Presidents whom I Frank O’Hare, PE/PS, Treasurer have served under, board members both present and past, who have shown me the Three-Year Directors (Region) ropes, and fellow ASHE members at the Section and Region levels who are always Frank Bronzo, PE, Great Lakes Region striving to make ASHE better. I also cannot forget the investment that Gresham, Donato Di Zuzio, Northeast Region Leigh Lilla, PE, Southeast Region Smith and Partners has made in my involvement with ASHE at every stage. Without GS&P’s support, I would not have been able to succeed in this journey. Two-Year Directors (Region) I joined ASHE in 2005 as a Charter member of the Middle Tennessee Section. Stan Harris, PE, Great Lakes Region Roger Carriker, PE, Mid-Atlantic Region I had the good fortune to collaborate with Brad Winkler on the pre-organization Brian Krul, PE, Northeast Region work necessary to charter the Section with 80 members. In my first couple of One-Year Directors (Region) years as the Middle Tennessee Section president, I learned this was a collaborative David Greenwood, PE, Mid-Atlantic Region effort that required the talents of many different individuals. That lesson sticks Michael Hurtt, PE, Northeast Region Brad Winkler, PE, Southeast Region with me as I now look at ASHE from the national level with the National Board and the organization’s numerous committees. Different personalities and skill New Sections Contact sets from different parts of the United States have come together to support Jennifer Newman, Southeast Region Tim Matthews, PE, Southeast Region the common mission of providing a forum for members and partners of the transportation industry to promote a safe, efficient and sustainable transportation President’s Assistant (Appointed) system through education, innovation and fellowship. We have creative thinkers Shirley Stuttler who are concentrating on our public image or the next location for a new Section, Public Relations Contact and we have technical thinkers who are examining how we are organized, Amanda R.C. Schumacher communicating and functioning. Each person is key to our success, and I am so scanner thankful that these individuals have given of their valuable time to make ASHE Tammy Farrell, Editor what it is today. TNT GRAPhiCs If you notice in the previous paragraph, I stated the mission using the term “sustainable transportation system”—and no, it is not a misprint. In the last MISSION couple of years, as part of the Strategic Plan update, a minor update was made to Provide a forum for members the ASHE Mission Statement. The change of the second use of the word “highway” and partners of the highway to “transportation” shows that ASHE has been and continues to be inclusive of industry to promote a safe, efficient all transportation systems, and we promote the multi-modal industry and its and sustainable transportation system professionals. Please update your websites, presentations and other documents through education, innovation that use the ASHE Mission Statement as follows: and fellowship. Provide a forum for members and partners of the highway industry to promote a safe, efficient and sustainable transportation system through NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS education, innovation and fellowship. 65 Beacon Hill Henderson, NC 27537 Being the engineer that I am, I wanted to figure out just how many (919) 909-2987 individuals held an official position within the ASHE organization. It was [email protected] easy to learn that at the National level, there are more than 60 positions, but www.ashe.pro the numbers were more difficult to identify at the Region and Section level. Pulling out my calculator and using that well-known engineers’ equation called The scanner is published quarterly by the American Society of Highway Engineers. “Engineering Judgement,” I came to the conclusion that there are 701.56 Statements of fact and opinion are the positions (but don’t ask me to prove it!). For the sake of simplicity, I will say that responsibility of the authors alone and do not imply an opinion on the part of the officers or (continued on page 17) the members of ASHE. © 2016 ASHE. American Society of Highway Engineers 3 SUMMER 2016 3– New Directions: President’s Message 6– Route 18 Bridge over Route 1: The ABCs of Superstructure Replacement 9– MileMarkers: News from Across ASHE Miles 10– Pipe Culvert’s Relining Adds Longevity to Four-Lane Arterial in Pennsylvania 13– MileMarkers: News from Across ASHE Miles 14– Raising the Bar on Pedestrian Design 16– MileMarkers: News from Across ASHE Miles 18– The Memphis to Bristol Highway: Commemorating TDOT’s First State Road 6 Route 18 Bridge over Route 1 20– Emlenton Walls Alternate Design: Cost-Effective Solution for a Challenging Project 22– Bringing Streetcars Back to Charlotte 24– Pavement Rehab in Florida Not Always a Smooth Process 26– Piscataway Hills Landslide Stabilization 28– Changing Dangerous and Drab to Safe and Fab Pipe Culvert’s Relining Adds Longevity 10 30– Construction Finally Begins on Central PA’s Missing Highway Link 34– America’s First Superhighway Turns 75 18 The Memphis to Bristol Highway on the cover Bringing Streetcars 30 Central PA’s Missing Highway Link Back to Charlotte ASHE Carolina Piedmont Section See page 22 4 scanner | SUMMER 2016 | ashe.pro Have you changed your address, job or name? Make an easy Inspire. Create. Deliver. switch in ASHE’s TRANSPORTATION online database! Traffic Engineering Transportation Planning 1. To access the database, Highway Design go to www.database. Bridge Design ashe.pro. Traffic Signal/Systems Road Safety Audits 2. Input your personal ID Road Diets number—the eight- Pedestrian/ADA & Bicycle Studies digit number located on Environmental Science & Planning the scanner mailing Public Involvement label. (This will be your ID number for as long as you’re a member of the Society.) Offices in: 3. Add your initial password, which is the zip code Carson City, NV, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Exton, PA, Iselin, NJ, (including the dash, if it is a nine-digit code)—also Mechanicsburg, PA, New York, NY, on the mailing label. Orlando, FL (Coming Soon), Philadelphia, PA, St. Louis, MO, 4. Change your password after your initial login to Vienna, VA ensure the security of your data. burns-group.com 5. Review your personal data and make any changes necessary to keep your information up to date. TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING Ranked #1 in Transportation by Engineering News- Record, AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering solutions that create, enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural, and social environments. Offi ce locati ons: Pitt sburgh, PA · State College, PA York, PA (Corporate Headquarters) Marlton, NJ www.aecom.com (800) 274-2224 I www.bucharthorn.com ASHE Scanner_BH_Oct2015.indd 1 American Society of Highway10/22/2015 Engineers 11:05:55 5 AM 1139 - ASHE2016_rev1.indd 1 1/12/2016 11:58:36 AM A C B he New Jersey Department of Transportation’s (NJDOT) Bridge T Management System determined that the bridge decks for the Route 18 structure over Route 1, a grade-separated interchange in Middlesex County where two major state highways converge, had deteriorated to the point of requiring replacement. NJDOT was by Samir D. Shah, PE, PMP, Project Manager, NJDOT, confronted with the challenge of reconstructing bridge decks on and Steven Manera, PMP, Project Manager, HNTB, Route 18, with an average daily traffic (ADT) of 118,000 vehicles per ASHE North Central New Jersey Section day (VPD) and no shoulders, over Route 1 with Photo A: Route 18 northbound an ADT of 123,000 VPD. The interchange is Span 2 superstructure construction located adjacent to Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus and is one-half mile from the (view from Route 1 southbound) New Jersey Turnpike’s Interchange 9. This project would have significant regional traffic impacts Photo B: Route 18 southbound and require extensive coordination with community stakeholders. To meet the challenges of this Span 1 superstructure replacement complex project, Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) techniques were proposed. This resulted (looking east) in an overall shorter construction duration, no reduction in travel lanes Monday to Friday from Photo C: Route 18 southbound concrete moveable barrier curb 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM, and the superstructure demolition and replacement work was confined to installation (west of the inter- weekends when lane reductions were acceptable to NJDOT and stakeholders.