Highway Quality Assurance: The Need for Science-and-Knowledge-Based DecisionMaking

摘要

Despite many advances in technology over the past two decades, and a recentlyrenewed commitment to quality in the form of the National Quality Initiative (NQI), there remain many quality assurance procedures in use today that reflect neither the proper application of technology nor the commitment to excellence proclaimed by the NQI. It is argued that critical decision-making processes in