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For more than a decade, the construction world has kept an eye on efforts to build a new State Route 520 floating bridge—the world’s longest—which connects Seattle to points east on Lake Washington.

Systematic, well-designed, and implementable research is the most effective way to solve many problems facing state department of transportation (DOT) administrators and engineers. Often, highway ...