United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-06-13
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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
2021-06-11
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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
2021-06-11
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On a monthly basis, each State is required to report to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the amount of gallons taxed by that state. This data is analyzed and compiled by FHWA staff. The data on the amount of on-highway fuel use for each State is then used to attribute federal revenue to each State. Yearly, the FHWA, Office of Policy, prov
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2021-06-10
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The concern about highway safety goes back to the early years of the automobile era. But at a moment in time on December 15, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the public face of an effort to dramatize highway safety by convincing the country’s drivers – collectively, the nuts in question – to go one full day without accidents.
Smart cities and communities (SC&Cs) use advanced information and communications technologies to find new ways to solve age-old problems like potholes and pollution, traffic and parking, public health and safety, and equity and public engagement. SC&Cs create an intelligent, integrated information network by applying sensors and wireless communicat
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-06-06
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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
2021-06-04
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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. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Bridges and Structures
2021-06-02
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HY-8 automates culvert hydraulic computations utilizing a number of essential features that make culvert analysis and design easier. An HY-8 User Manual is included with the software installation (access via 'Help' button on top toolbar) to provide important information on the technical features, capabilities, and limitations of the software.Improv
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2021-06-01
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Fast Lane - Exploring Human Behavior
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The Human Factors Team biannual highlights cover past, current, and planned future research being conducted at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.
The Federal Highway Administration is investigating narrowing freeway lanes and shoulders as a cost-effective mobility strategy. The objectives of this project were to develop improved macroscopic analysis tools, calibrate car-following models that capture narrowed lane driving behavior, conduct real-world case studies, develop narrowed lanes deplo
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Benefits such as faster construction, more consistent material depths, and savings by better control of material yields have already been noted when automatic machine guidance (AMG) is used in successive pavement-construction activities. Now, the question is whether projects using AMG result in improved smoothness compared with those using conventi
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This report presents the findings of a study on how performance-based planning and programming influences transportation planning and programming decisions at 52 State departments of transportation and 85 metropolitan planning organizations. Research was conducted throughout 2020 using online reviews of planning and programming documents, interview
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The Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program issues a quarterly 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, and data analysis.
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 established the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) Program to provide grants to States or groups of States to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user-fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. In Federal
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) program was established in 2012 to address highway-safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies (e.g., improvements) by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their effectiveness in reducing crashes. Forty-one State dep
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2021-06-01
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Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
Public Roads is the quarterly magazine of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Reading Public Roads is the easiest way to keep up-to-date on developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. More specifically, the magazine "covers" advances and innovations in highway/traffic research and technology, critical nat
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Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure is an open standards–based collaborative work method for structuring, managing, and using data about transportation assets and networks throughout their lifecycles. It liberates data from siloed systems and makes it easier for automated processes to generate asset information and distribute it
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-06-01
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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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One of the challenges in conducting freight transportation planning and policy analysis is the variation in the types of vehicles that are considered trucks and the manner in which distinctions are made between various types of trucks. The public sector has varying standards by which trucks are distinguished from other vehicle types and are further
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