This fact sheet highlights how traffic management systems (TMSs) can be used to generate and display warning messages that alert travelers to congested traffic conditions before travelers encounter unexpected or unstable traffic flow conditions or stopped or queued vehicles. This includes: Desired Outcomes, Key Issues to Consider, Benefits, Lessons
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2025-01-01
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This fact sheet highlights the various methods and tools used to estimate staffing needs for transportation management systems (TMS). Estimating current and future staffing and resource needs is essential to ensuring TMSs sustain or meet operational needs and performance expectations. However, agencies face numerous challenges and constraints in de
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2025-01-01
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2025-01-01
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This brochure provides information regarding pathways to a career within the Turner-Fairbank Research Center. The areas included are: Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG), Office of Personnel Management Pathways Programs, FHWA Professional Development Program (PDP), National Academy of Sciences/National Research Coun
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2025-01-01
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This postcard provides information about the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Advanced Sensing Technology & Nondestructive Evaluation Program. It contains six CR codes that provide additional information on the following: Zoom link to NDE Monthly Webinar, FHWA NDE Program Overview, FHWA InfoTechnology, Interview with Program Manager, FHWA NDE Monthl
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This handbook provides practitioners with information on how to conduct an engineering study to set a speed limit for a speed zone based on the provisions in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD). The discussion includes preparing for the study, the factors to consider, the data-collection process, evaluatin
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Truck platooning is a new Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) application poised to rapidly affect the nation’s trucking operations, which could have several profound impacts on the national inventory of bridges. The current study goal is to investigate potential impacts to bridge serviceability, as well as evaluate the effect on the strength lim
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In recent years, the deployment of wireless communication technologies in transportation systems has gained momentum due to their potential to enhance safety, efficiency, and mobility. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication systems enable real-time data exchange, enabling vehicles to
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Advanced, infrastructure-based detection technologies, such as infrared thermal imaging sensors and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), can potentially improve vulnerable road user detection and vulnerable road user volumetric data collection at real-world intersections and midblock crossings. These technologies can help increase understanding of
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2025-01-01
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National Travel Time Dashboard: Interstate Highways
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The Monthly Urban Congestion Report (UCR) provides a state-level overview of traffic congestion and reliability trends on Interstate highways. Published every month, the report compares data from the most recent month with the same month in the previous year. It uses travel time data from the Federal Highway Administration’s National Performance Ma
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Balanced mixture design (BMD) of asphalt mixtures comprises various elements that are likely to impact asphalt pavement performance. However, most BMD applications do not account for long-term aging. This gap limits the appropriateness of thresholds and BMD's potential to improve pavement performance because more additive and reclaimed materials av
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2025-01-01
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This postcard describes two FHWA reports: "Best Practices for Corrosion Control and Mitigation" and "Industry-Recognized Corrosion Prevention Worker Certifications Effectiveness Evaluation."
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-12-25
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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This report addresses the development of design-basis fire exposure levels for highway bridges, which can define the thermal load in a performance-based structural-fire engineering framework. Several approaches are presented for characterizing the spatial and temporal thermal impact of open-air fires from both vehicles and stationary fuel sources u
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-12-13
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-12-11
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-12-06
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Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the previous year. Estimates are re-adjuste
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-12-04
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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The Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program issues a triannual newsletter to inform you about the progress and activities of the program. Brief updates on progress in important program activities are provided, including data collection, data releases, new products and publications, pooled fund studies, and dat
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