Highway Facility Design 2004; 2004 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1890 includes the text of the 2004 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture by Richard O. Jones, “Context-Sensitive Design: Will the Vision Overcome Liability Concerns?”  Also, this volume examines dynamic actions on bridge slabs from a heavy vehicle’s impact on roadside barriers, attributes and amenities of highway systems important to tourists, characteristics of snowmelt runoff from highways in the Tahoe Basin and the treatment investigations for improving runoff quality, issues in automating utility permits at transportation agencies, and more.

Individual TRR Journals, which are published on an irregular basis throughout the year, consist of collections of peer-reviewed papers on specific transportation subject areas and modes.  Abstracts of papers that make up this TRR are available through TRB's Publication Index. In the Series field type "Record & 1890" (without the quotation marks). After reviewing the abstracts, you will need to use your browser's "back" button to return to this screen in order to purchase the publication.

TRR Journals may also be purchased on an annual subscription basis.  Each year, TRB publishes approximately 40 volumes of the TRR Journal, containing more than 650 papers grouped by subject.