University Transportation Centers Program: education and research for the 21st century.

From: Public Roads | Date: September 1, 1991| Author: Hersey, Harry H. | Copyright information

University Transportation Centers Program

Education and Research for the 21st Century

Introduction

Thomas D. Larson, Federal Highway Administrator, in the 1991 Francis C. Turner Lecture, described innovation as "the introduction of something new, something that deviates from established doctrine or practice, from existing forms in the technical, economic, or social spheres." The University Transportation Centers Program exemplifies this concept a...

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