The FHWA 2020 Urban Congestion Trends report details trends and the current state of congestion and reliability on the NHS in 52 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. This report also includes examples of how agencies are using the NPMRDS for performance reporting and analysis, as well as for operational strategy evaluation and be
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-19
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-17
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The Weekly 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 Adminis
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The Buffalo NY ITS4US Deployment Project seeks to improve mobility to, from, and within the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus by deploying new and advanced technologies with a focus on addressing existing mobility and accessibility challenges. Examples of the technologies to be deployed are electric and self-driving shuttles, a trip planning app that
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-12
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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This report documents an independent evaluation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) estimates developed from traffic probes by StreetLight Data, Inc (StL). The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers performed a systematic process to identify accurate permanent continuous counter sites maintained by public agencies and private entit
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-10
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The Weekly 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 Adminis
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-05
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2021-09-04
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In-place density of asphalt pavement mats and joints is an important factor in building cost-effective, long-lasting asphalt pavements. Recognizing the importance of in-place density, the FHWA recently completed a demonstration project for "Enhanced Durability of Asphalt Pavements through Increased In-place Pavement Density" to assist State Departm
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-09-03
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The Weekly 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 Adminis
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This report explains how to evaluate steel bridge details for susceptibility to constraint-induced fracture. The report begins with a review of fundamental principles of ductile behavior of steel structures and the effects of constraint and stress triaxiality. A brief history of constraint-induced fractures of steel bridges in the United States and
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This project’s ultimate deliverable is a functional Vulnerable User Density Dashboard (https://mti.umd.edu/sdi) for the state of Maryland. The dashboard uses mobile device location data and electric scooter volume data to reflect pedestrian, bicycle, and electric scooter travel volumes and their exposure to roadway safety risk across all roadways i
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Compass newsletter aims to increase highway safety awareness and to provide resources to the highway safety community to help save lives. The newsletter is published three times a year and includes articles on safety-focused offerings from FHWA, other DOT modes; our State, Local, and Tribal partner
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This technical manual describes the Federal Highway Administration’s Traffic Noise Model (TNM) Version 3.1. Chapter 2 describes the process of determining noise emissions and levels at a reference location 15 m (50 ft) from the traffic noise source. This includes: the geometric discretizing of the study in the horizontal plane into elemental triang
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Traffic Optimization for Signalized Corridors (TOSCo) is an innovative connected and automated vehicle application that has the potential to generate substantial mobility and air quality benefits for public agencies and potential fuel savings benefits for the traveling public. Under the TOSCo system, vehicles equipped with TOSCo functionality use s
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Cooperative driving automation (CDA) aims to improve the safety, traffic throughput, and energy efficiency of the transportation network by allowing vehicles and infrastructure to work together to coordinate movement. The objective of this project is to advance the CARMASM ecosystem to enable further capabilities for CDA participants to interact wi
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CARMASM is an initiative to enable collaboration for research and development of cooperative driving automation (CDA). The goal of CDA is to improve safety, traffic throughput, and energy efficiency of the transportation network by enabling vehicles and the infrastructure to communicate to coordinate movement. This project aims to advance the CARMA
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This report documents research undertaken to explore the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to support bridge inspection. It addresses UAS platforms and sensors used to assist or augment inspections, the data-collection needs that UAS can meet, and means and methods for managing the tremendous amount of data that can be collected by UAS-mounted s
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Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies offer potentially transformative societal impacts, including significant mobility, safety, and environmental benefits. Traffic analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) tools provide an efficient means to evaluate transportation improvement projects before deployment. However, current AMS tools are
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This document is one in a series of technical summaries that accompany the forthcoming Federal Highway Administration report, Collection of Data with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for Bridge Inspection and Construction Inspection.
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