Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is a U.S. Department of Transportation facility located in McLean, Virginia. The center carries out research studies and was renamed after Francis Turner in 1983.- Type: Research institute
- Description: U.S. Department of Transportation facility located in McLean, Virginia
- Also known as: “Fairbank Highway Research Station”, “TFHRC”, and “Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kryptos and Central Intelligence Agency.
Kryptos
Work of art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. Kryptos is situated 1,700 feet southeast of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.
Central Intelligence Agency
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building and the New Headquarters Building and sits on a total of 258 acres of land. Central Intelligence Agency is situated 2,300 feet south of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.
Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Park
Photo: Greenmars, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Claude Moore Colonial Farm, originally Turkey Run Farm, was a U.S. park in Virginia re-creating and re-enacting life on a tenant farm circa 1771. The park closed permanently on December 21, 2018.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langley and Glen Echo.
Langley
Suburb
Photo: Patrickneil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence, is in Langley.
Glen Echo
Village
Photo: Ben Walther, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 279 at the 2020 census.
Cabin John
Village
Photo: Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cabin John is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 2,459. Overlooking the Potomac River, it is a suburb of Washington, D.C.…
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
- Categories: research center and education
- Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.95656° or 38° 57′ 24″ northLongitude
-77.1484° or 77° 8′ 54″ westOpen location code
87C4XV42+JJOpenStreetMap ID
way 1067618800OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=research_instituteWikidata ID
Q16920327
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In Other Languages
“Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ターナー・フェアバンク・高速道路研究センター”
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