An 11-person delegation from the Tianjin Highway
Administration, a northern Chinese city of 13 million people, recently visited the
Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) – the fifth such delegation
MCDOT has hosted. The group was interested
in road and bridge construction, traffic safety, and maintenance.
The visitors heard about the Engineering Division’s new
approaches to bridge replacements, using prefabricated components. They learned about the Traffic Division’s Transportation
Management Center GPS devices to guide
snow removal crews through their routes.
The visitors also toured the Bethesda Highway Depot and the
Materials Testing Lab, the only state-certified, County-run facility
that tests concrete or asphalt used in road construction.
