VIRGINIA'S SMART ROAD: WHERE RESEARCHERS MAKE THE EXTREME WEATHER

摘要

Located a couple of miles from the Virginia Tech campus in the mountains of rural southwest Virginia, the Virginia Smart Road stands as a 2.2-mile-long thoroughfare that actually goes nowhere, at least for now. The result of a grand plan conceived back in the 1980s, the road is a unique, state-of-the-art, closed test-bed research facility managed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and owned and maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).