This episode features Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center's (TFHRC’s) Chief Scientist Craig Thor and Brian Philips, Team Leader, Human Factors Research and Development Team at TFHRC, discussing the ways the Virtual Reality Laboratory's state-of-the-art tools are helping find solutions to challenges that face vulnerable road users.
A Complete Street is safe and feels safe for everyone using the street (including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, children, older individuals, individuals with disabilities, motorists, and freight vehicles). In addition to safety and equity, Complete Streets applications may improve economic vitality. Operations addresses the
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-10-01
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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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This report summarizes the key findings of the 2023 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Deployment Tracking Survey. From 1999 to 2020, the ITS Joint Program Office (JPO) used the ITS Deployment Tracking Survey on an ongoing basis to collect information about ITS deployment in a subset of metropolitan areas across the United States by surveying
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-10-01
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FHWA R&T Now
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A newsletter about research, development, and technology (RD&T) at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
The Highway Safety Information System (HSIS) is composed of seven States and one urban center. The HSIS Program provides linked crash, roadway, and traffic volume data. This guidebook supports the use of Ohio HSIS data from 2018 and beyond. Data and documentation recorded before 2018 (1997–2017) are available upon request to the virtual HSIS Labora
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This report reviews before and after crash data for nine alternative intersections located in four States along with comparison crash data for an additional two alternative intersections and one conventional two-way, stop-control intersection. Though the geometry and operations vary, each of the alternative intersections is characterized by redirec
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Cooperative driving automation (CDA) technology can send messages to CDA-enabled devices inside a vehicle to alert drivers to adverse road weather conditions. CDA messages and adaptive cruise control (ACC) have been found to influence driver behavior and increase safe vehicle operation. This study investigated the effects of CDA messages and ACC on
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Walking and biking are increasingly popular modes of travel and exercise in urban and suburban areas and are promoted by initiatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation and other U.S. Government agencies, such as Complete Streets, to reduce congestion and emissions and foster a healthy lifestyle. However, despite a decline in overall transpo
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This summary report investigates the current body of knowledge about the relationship between bridge skew angle and bridge deterioration rate and applies those findings to New Jersey bridges. Tools used in the study were graphical analysis (histograms and a scatterplot with regression lines) and statistical methodologies, specifically analysis of v
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The Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Annual Report highlights the achievements of the CDA program and discusses the use cases that were created and researched to further overall CDA program objectives to enable a cooperative, safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation system for all users. This report also details engagement activities wit
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2024-10-01
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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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The purpose of this guide is to provide information to State and local agencies on work zone fatalities in the U.S. and the application of Safe System Approach principles to work zone planning, design, operations, and management. This includes describing work zone applications of FHWA’s Proven Safety Countermeasures (PSCs), a collection of counterm
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-09-25
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-09-18
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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 Smartphone Travel Incentive Study was designed to examine the ability to sway individual travel decisions away from drive-alone trips through smartphone-based nudging and incentives. The approaches for recruiting and retaining users, along with the significant challenges encountered and related lessons learned, ar
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-09-13
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FHWA's Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter is intended to provide transportation professionals with real-world examples of ways that multimodal transportation investments promote economic revitalization, provide access to jobs, and achieve safer communities through support of accelerated project deliv
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-09-11
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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
2024-09-05
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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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Standardizing e-Construction: A Pilot Project in Lincoln, Nebraska - Celebrating Innovationand Collaboration: Debut of the TPF Excellence Awards - From Farm to Market: The Data Challenges of Rural Roads - Accelerating U.S. Innovation: Bringing Global Innovations to U.S. Highways - Reentry Workforce Training Pilot Programs for Incarcerated Individua
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