Updates for SCOH Agendas 5/14/2012: SM 2012 SCOH Meeting Amended New Documents.pdf

 SCOH 2012 Spring Agendas and Meeting Materials are now ready to download! 

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SCOH OVERVIEW

AASHTO's Standing Committee on Highways (SCOH) is the foundation for the AASHTO transportation family – AASHTO started as a highways and roads association back in 1914. Today SCOH provides and represents the technical expertise of AASHTO. SCOH manages the development of policies, guidelines, standards, and publications that are not only recognized by our members, but also by many countries worldwide.

Each member Department of Transportation (DOT) – the 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia are entitled to a seat on this standing committee. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the member DOT assigns a representative, who is most often the DOT's Chief Engineer. The committee officers include the chair, vice-chair, secretary, and AASHTO liaison. The voting members total 52.

SCOH meets twice each year, at the AASHTO Annual Meeting and the AASHTO Spring Meeting. Its subcommittees, task forces, and other special groups largely do the committee's extensive work and report activities to the standing committee officers and voting members. The members of SCOH - the chief engineers - oversee the business and work of SCOH's other committees.

The dedication to improving our highways' design, construction, maintenance, operations, standards, traffic devices, and materials is shown in the shared goals and activities of SCOH and its subgroups. Examples of the committee's extensive work include active participation in many areas that include the development of guidelines for design, product evaluation, specification standards for construction and maintenance, security and more.

SCOH Strategic Plan 2010-2014

Summary of Rules for Assigning Professional Development Hours (PDHs)—If you attended a SCOH subcommittee, task force, technical committee meeting that provides PDH certificates or want information about professional development hours certificates, please select one of the following contact the AASHTO Liaison responsible for the meeting.  AASHTO Staff Listing.

Standing Committee on Highways NCHRP 20-07 Research Projects

What is the Highway Safety Manual? The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) introduces a science-based technical approach that takes the guesswork out of safety analysis. The HSM provides tools to conduct quantitative safety analyses, allowing for safety to be quantitatively evaluated alongside other transportation performance measures such as traffi c operations, environmental impacts, and construction costs. Visit http://www.highwaysafetymanual.org for more information Order Your Copy Today!