Efficient execution of the FHWA mission depends on a clear understanding by all levels of the organization as well as its partners and customers of where the Agency is headed and what it intends to accomplish. To ensure that this communication is as extensive as possible, the FHWA Business Planning Process is a participatory one that involves all e
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The process of integrating bicycle and pedestrian considerations into State and local transportation planning, design, and operations has become known as "institutionalization." Many of the essential elements of institutionalization have been explored in great detail by the other case study commissioned as part of the National Bicycling and Walking
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1992-07-01
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Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS)
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The U.S. Bureau of the Census has begun to release data obtained from the 1990 decennial census describing the journey to work of America's workers. These early data are in the form of broad summaries at the State and county level. They cannot provide the sophisticated insights that will be available when the highway detailed census statistics are
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1992-07-01
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Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS)
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Travel Behavior Issues in the 90's presents a preliminary examination of the most recent personal travel data relating to key questions of interest to transportation planners and policymakers. Drawing on data from the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) and the 1985 and 1989 American Housing Surveys (AHS), it provides a selective
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A variety of non-traditional soil and aggregate stabilizers are presently ,-- -- ~ available on the market. Attractions of these materials include ready availability, concentrated forms for minimum shipping cost, and low cost in-place mixing operations not requiring special and extensive equipment spreads. However, the short and long term benefits
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Truck load equivalency factors relate vehicle axle loads to pavement damage and life. They provide a method to convert the effects of mixed traffic to a standard loading condition. Equivalent loadings for most pavement design and evaluation procedures are currently predicted using the AASHTO method of equivalency factors. This study was undertaken
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Developing a Standard Approach for Testing New Traffic Control Signs; In-Vehicle Navigational Devices: Effects on the Safety of Driver Performance; Rock Riprap for Protection of Bridge Abutments Located at the Flood Plain; The FHWA Test Road: Construction and Instrumentation
The Benefits of Bicycling and Walking to Health is one of a series of reports mandated by the National Bicycling and Walking Study. The major emphasis of this report is to provide information on the potential health benefits and deleterious health effects accruing to individuals and the nation as a whole while engaging in bicycling and walking. Thi
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Providing safe roadside barrier hardware on scenic roadways and parkways is as important as safety on more typical roads. Recently a number of guardrails and bridge railings have been developed for these types of scenic roads. This report s1.111marizes the development, testing and field experience for three aesthetic bridge railing designs and thre
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This report presents the results of a research study on methods for measuring strain and stress in bituminous pavements subjected to dynamic vehicle loading. The research program was divided into two phases. In the first phase, an extensive literature· search was conducted to identify the existing pavement instrumentation and to select the most pro
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Because of a continuing demand for information concerning the financing of Federal-aid highways, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) prepared a report, "Financing Federal-Aid Highways," in January 1974 to describe the basic process involved. The report was modified and updated in July 1976, May 1979, October 1983, and November 1987. These upd
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Motor Carriers
1992-05-01
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Wheel Separations! Recently several motor carriers have had serious accidents resulting in injuries and fatalities due to wheel separations. In Miami, Florida, a school bus was struck head on by a wheel and tire that had sheared off the steering axle of a straight truck. Investigation determined the wheel bearing seized and the axle spindle sheared
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Many State and local agencies have developed innovative procedures and devices to facilitate highway sign fabrication, installation, and maintenance. This handbook describes several of these innovations. A literature review and nationwide search was made to gather information on innovations. The innovations that were received ranged from very simpl
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This report presents the results of an evaluation of the performance of wetland mitigation efforts taken by several State departments of transportation around the country. These mitigation efforts, taken in response to State and Federal requirements to protect wetland values, have attempted to compensate for wetland impacts directly and indirectly
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Information Management
1992-05-01
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The tabular information in this report, provided by the State and Provincial driver licensing authorities, shows the administrative requirements and qualifications needed to obtain driver licenses in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Provinces of Canada, together with the driver license content and driver improvement pro
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The U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, in support of the Federal Highway Administration and seventeen sponsoring state transportation agencies, is conducting a National Pooled-Fund Study (NPFS), HP&R 0002-136, "Evaluation of Performance of Experimental Highw
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