Public Roads
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 333735

Publisher: U.S. Federal Highway Administration

History: 1969-1990, 1992-2021

Journal Hompage: Link

How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

Public Roads is the quarterly magazine of the Federal Highway Administration FHWA. Reading Public Roads is the easiest way to keep uptodate on developments in federal highway policies programs and research and technology.More specifically the magazine covers advances and innovations in highwaytraffic research and technology critical national transportation issues important activities and achievements of FHWA and others in the highway community specific FHWA program areas and subjects of interest to highway industry professionals. Each issue contains standard departments that include information on topics of general interest notices of recent publications in research and development and in technology applications Internetrelated information applicable to transportation professionals programs and courses offered by the National Highway Institute and a calendar of major conferences and special events. Public Roads also emphasizes the continuing commitment of FHWA to be a world leader in promoting highway research and technology transfer.For almost its entire 80 years Public Roads was exclusively an inhouse research journal for engineers scientists and economists. However in the summer of 1993 Public Roads broadened its scope to represent the entire FHWA and to be relevant to a wider audience. The expanded audience includes all FHWA employees international national state and local transportation officials members of highwayrelated professional societies and associations researchers at technical libraries and technology transfer centers professors and students of engineering and traffic management members of appropriate congressional committees and others interested in highway research and technology and in FHWA policies and programs.