The highway construction industry has a long history of using discarded materials and by-products in the construction of highway facilities. From asphalt cement to fly-ash, the industry has found ways to use waste materials to enhance the quality and durability of the highway infrastructure. In an attempt to mesh society's need for safe and economi
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Passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) marked a new era in transportation investment. For the preceding thirty-five years, the Federal government directed much of its surface transportation investment to the construction of the Interstate Highway System. This 45,000 mile system links the States to each other
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The objective of this report was to determine if driver performance can be improved through the use of fluorescent roadway delineation and auxiliary ultraviolet (UVA) vehicle headlights. Additionally, cost benefit analyses were to be conducted to determine if UVA/fluorescent technology may be an economical means of increasing highway safety. The li
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Motor Carriers
1998-12-01
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This document profiles accidents which occurred between 1984 and 1988, reported by commercial passenger carriers subject to regulation by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It is suspected that accidents involving these carriers were under-reported; actions are underway to correct this in the future. 2,922 accidents were reported by commercial
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This report contains the test procedures, test setup followed, and the test results from seven frontal full–scale vehicle crash tests conducted at the Federal Outdoor Impact Laboratory (FOIL) located at the Turner–Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. The frontal collisions were between FOIL's new, larger capacity rigid pole and tes
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For more than 10 years, State and Provincial highway agencies have been collecting data from thousands of Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) experiments across the United States and Canada. Now, a CD-ROM software package-called DataPave-brings this data, along with a set of tools for searching, viewing, and manipulating the data, to the desktop.
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research and Development
1998-12-01
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Roughness is widely regarded as the most important measure of pavement performance. To better understand how and why roughness occurs in pavements, Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program recently completed a study entitled, "Investigation of Development of Pavement Roughness". A component of the study investigated the changes in three types
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
1998-11-01
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As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) program, the Federal Highway Administration investigated the human factors research needs for integrating in-vehicle safety and driver information technologies into usable systems that provide manageable information to the driver. This investigation included a w
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As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) program, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) investigated the human factors research needs for integrating in-vehicle safety and driver information technologies into usable systems that provide manageable information to the driver. This investigation inclu
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This report contains the test procedures followed and test results from a broadside crash test between a Chevrolet C2500 pickup truck and the FOIL instrumented 300K rigid pole. The test was conducted at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Federal Outdoor Impact Laboratory (FOIL) located at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) i
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This report contains the test procedures followed and test results from one broadside crash test between a Chevrolet C2500 pickup truck and the FOIL instrumented 300K rigid pole. The crash test will provide simulation engineers with data that will aid in the development and validation of a finite element side-impact model of a 2,000-kg pickup truck
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
1998-11-01
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As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) program, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) investigated human factors research needs for integrating in-vehicle safety and driver information technologies into usable systems that provide manageable information to the driver. This investigation included
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This primer is designed to provide basic information about the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). It describes how the fund works, its sources of revenue, what the balances are, funding levels, and budgetary constraints on spending levels. It does not address, in any detail, the Mass Transit Account of the HTF. The primer is designed
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The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of potential safety benefits resulting from full implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the United States. These estimates were derived by integrating results from a number of different sources including field operational tests, model deployments and simulation studies. In thi
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This document describes the strategy used to evaluate the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office’s MetropolitanModel Deployment Initiative (MMDI). The MMDI is an aggressive deployment of ITS at four urban sites: New York/New Jersey/Connecticut, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Seattle. These sites were chosen because of their high l
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This flyer summarizes the identified human factors research needs for basic safety and information systems, one of five configurations of in-vehicle safety and driver information systems.
As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) program, the Federal Highway Administration investigated the human factors research needs for integrating in-vehicle safety and driver information technologies into usable systems that provide manageable information to the driver.
This flyer summarizes the identified human factors research needs for a full 360-degree collision warning coverage, one of five configurations of in-vehicle safety and driver information systems.
The purpose of this working paper is to present estimates of potential safety benefits resulting from full implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the United States. These estimates were derived by integrating results from a number of different sources. In this paper, the safety benefits metrics used are reductions in fatal cr
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